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Top 3 prospects you wouldn't mind seeing us take @ 16

Mr teX said:
:mariopalm: I guess VY was on his way to a borderline HOF career after he won OROY? stop it dude.

Cush has had 1 amazing year...his rookie year...& that's up for discussion whether or not he had help in the form of PEDS b/c if you remember then he got popped for PED's and sat out the 1st 4 of his 2nd year. He came back that year and really didn't look like the same guy..Since then, injuries have limited him.
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If you watched him and saw how he played with his energy and impact on the team, you wouldn't disagree.

At his height he was already pretty much the best LB in the league not named Ray Lewis or Patrick Willis.

But it's hard to remember since it's been quite a while. He was well on his way.
 
Mr teX said:
"attendance is part of the grade" as C. Pallilo would say. Cushing pre-injury was making in-roads as 1 of the best young LBs. He wasn't there yet though. But even then imo, CMIII was still better & he proved it.
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This right here says fail to me. Cushing was storming more than III prior to Cushing's 1st knee destruction. Pre-injury both were way above average in the league. Cushing was the clear leader between the two.
 
JB said:
who won droy btw? Just asking
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There's only 2 seasons where Cush was even healthy enough to be compared to CMIII..his rookie year and the year after that. CMIII missed a few games early on in his rookie year ...Cush was suspended the 1st 4 of his 2nd. CMIII also wasn't even a full time starter in GB...He still put up 10 sacks though and made plenty of plays. Cush had an outstanding rookie campaign & won RDPOY, but the long and short of it is both guys made the pro bowl as rooks. They were pretty much neck and neck at that point.

but by the end of their 2nd full seasons, CM III was already a 1st team all pro, was leading his defense to a SB & was a focus for offenses.....narrowly missed out on DPOY that year as well. Cush, for as good as he'd been playing wasn't in that stratosphere at that point. CMIII zoomed by him at that point. The rest is history.

So the notion that Cush clearly was the leader pre-injury is not correct. CM III held his own.

I said in my previous post on this that i didn't have an issue with the Cushing pick...i just liked CM III's upside more than Cush's & had it been me, i would've picked him instead.
 
Cush had an All-Pro year in 2011 and looked to return to much of the same in 2012 before the Slauson hit; saying his rookie year was the only time he played well is just flat-out wrong.
 
bhsman said:
Cush had an All-Pro year in 2011 and looked to return to much of the same in 2012 before the Slauson hit; saying his rookie year was the only time he played well is just flat-out wrong.
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and was looking very very good before the second injury
 
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