Willie Henry drafted by the Baltimore Ravens

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4th round, 132nd overall.

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kevin holt

April 30th, 2016 at 2:04 PM ^

I doubt it's solely because of that, like he's not wasting a pick to do Jim/Greg a favor (otherwise congrats in advance to Rudock on the Ravens 5th round pick). But Jim surely has told him how good Henry is and John might not know how valuable the pick is otherwise.

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Farnn

April 30th, 2016 at 2:19 PM ^

It probably did, but it's more likely John got extra/better scouting from seeing more of Henry than other coaches and having sources he could trust at Michigan than Jim pushed for Henry to be drafted higher than he should have been.

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UNCWolverine

April 30th, 2016 at 2:15 PM ^

great stuff for henry. gotta think his best chance to make a roster would be for a harbaugh, going to win any tie-breakers on cut day.

on a side note I see Cardale just got drafted with the last pick of the 4th. how high was he predicted to go a year ago had he come out? urban's sweet talking cost him a bazillion dollars it seems, woof. I'll bet there will be a day that he wishes that he went to college to play school....

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UNCWolverine

April 30th, 2016 at 2:57 PM ^

Not sure, but have you ever heard of Anthony Thompson? He was even better.....

 

"Thompson played college football with the Indiana University Hoosiers football program where he won the Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award in 1989. He also won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football twice, becoming only the third person to do so at the time (the previous two-time award winners being Paul Giel of Univ of Minnesota 1952 & 1953 and Archie Griffin of Ohio State Univ in 1973 & 1974, with Braxton Miller of Ohio State Univ later becoming the fourth two-time winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football in 2012 & 2013). Thompson finished second in Heisman Trophy voting for the 1989 season. In 1989 he broke the record for career touchdowns in college with 65 touchdowns. The record stood until 1998 when it was broken by Ricky Williams. Thompson finished his college career with 5,299 rushing yards. Thompson was a three-yearstarter (1983–1985) for Terre Haute North Vigo High School, where he was a Parade All-American under coach Wayne Staley. On May 9, 2007 Thompson was announced as one of the specially selected inductees of the 2007 class at the College Football Hall of Fame."

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Sparkle Motion

April 30th, 2016 at 3:53 PM ^

Always rooted for him

We graduated high school the same year. I didn't live in Terre Haute but was visiting a friend there and he took me to a high school party. I'm looking around the party and make eye contact with a guy who immediately starts walking toward me. I'm thinking I'm about to get my ass kicked but instead he smiles, and holds out his hand. He introduces himself and says that I'm the only person there who he doesn't know and therefore wanted to meet me, and we ended up talking for a while.

This was summer of 1985, way before recruiting was followed like it is now so I had no idea who he was. It wasn't until we played IU that I put the pieces together.

I know it's a cool story bro but I think genuinely good guys like him should get credit for it



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UNCWolverine

April 30th, 2016 at 4:12 PM ^

I don't play that cool story bro crap, as I have tons of those stories that I haven't shared because of herd mentality board cynicism. So I say bring the stories if you have them.

Very cool story! Must have been tough to watch him run on us after knowing what a great guy he is. Too bad his NFL career disappointed.

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