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Undrafted gems for your team

  • 25-11-2012 11:29am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭


    Sure we'll give it a go :)
    1. Give me your team
    2. Best UDFA for your team. Doesn't matter if they are retired or still playing, both are fine
    3. Best UDFA you had but they were regrettably cut and went on to be stars elsewhere

    Baltimore Ravens

    Best player
    Priest Holmes, running back
    UDFA in 1997 and went on to have a 10 year career in the league, Superbowl XXXV winner and went to the pro-bowl three times.
    Cut by the Ravens due to salary cap problems, moved to the Chiefs and set and still holds many franchise records in KC.

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    Honorable mention to Bart Scott.
    What a sack! :cool:





    The one that got away :(
    Jeff Saturday
    Picked up in 1998 but was cut by the Ravens before training camp even started

    He then spent over 6 months as a free agent but Indy signed him and the rest is history


    There was James Harrison also but he wasn't much good at all at the time, only flourished later in his career.
    So I'll give him an honourable mention but no more


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,317 ✭✭✭HigginsJ


    New York Giants

    Currently best UDFA - Victor Cruz

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    Our salsa dancing WR phenom. Born & raised in New Jersey no Giants fan will ever forget his preseason debut against the Jets when he scored 3 TD's. Unfortunately spent his rookie year injured but burst on the scene last year to set franchise records for the Giants in receiving yards & our longest play from scrimmage




    Turned down dancing with the stars in the offseason to focus on football. Many doubted that he could replicate his production from last year and that teams would have figured him out. That has not been the case and with Hakeem Nicks out injured he has really stepped up. On course to surpass his TD totals from last year (although his yards may be down a bit but still will be well over the 1000 yard mark.

    Also likes to dance as a mark of respect to his grandmother



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,546 ✭✭✭Masked Man


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    Pure clucth.

    Was the difference in 3 Super Bowls.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Masked Man wrote: »
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    Pure clucth.

    Was the difference in 3 Super Bowls.

    It was a shame to hear him get booed last week when ye played us in Foxboro. Some people are idiots.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    HigginsJ wrote: »
    New York Giants

    Best UDFA in my time as a fan of NFL is Kurt Warner. Ok, he wasn't your best undrafted free agent, but he was the best one who happened ever to play for you guys is Kurt Warner.

    Indy's best undrafted free agent that we picked from obscurity would be Jeff Saturday IMO. The guy was a rock on our Oline, and the few times Peyton had to play without him, he struggled.

    Best UDFA we've ever had is as above: automatic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭taidghbaby


    davyjose wrote: »

    Best UDFA in my time as a fan of NFL is Kurt Warner. Ok, he wasn't your best undrafted free agent, but he was the best one who happened ever to play for you guys is Kurt Warner.

    Indy's best undrafted free agent that we picked from obscurity would be Jeff Saturday IMO. The guy was a rock on our Oline, and the few times Peyton had to play without him, he struggled.

    Best UDFA we've ever had is as above: automatic
    Saturday is probably the best we've ever had!

    Freeman is our best UDFA on the roster at the moment! Has been our best player on defence so far this year IMO


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭Leslie91


    1. San Diego Chargers

    2. Antonio Gates

    3. Wes Welker


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,167 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    New England Patriots

    Troy Brown

    I really can't think of any top player that was a udfa and went on to become a good one with another team so Nick Lowry has to be the one. He was signed by the Patriots in the late 70s and was one of the best kickers in the league for years for the Chiefs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,546 ✭✭✭Masked Man


    Almost certain Troy Brown wasn't undrafted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,245 ✭✭✭Justin10


    Leslie91 wrote: »
    1. San Diego Chargers

    2. Antonio Gates

    3. Wes Welker

    Also Dielmen was a top player and currently Malcom Floyd too.
    Always thought Nick Hardwick went undrafted too, but was picked in the 3rd.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,167 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Masked Man wrote: »
    Almost certain Troy Brown wasn't undrafted.
    Yeah you are right, for some reason I can never get that out of my head. He was taken in the eighth round. I've made that same mistake about 20 times for some reason.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭Leslie91


    Rochey18 wrote: »
    Also Dielmen was a top player and currently Malcom Floyd too.
    Always thought Nick Hardwick went undrafted too, but was picked in the 3rd.

    Yes we've hit on some real UDFA gems over the last 15 yrs but for me Gates has been the best of the lot. Dielman, Floyd, Gregory, Tolbert, the list goes on. Even Mike Harris this year looks like he could become a decent player. I think I'm correct in saying we hold the record for years in a row that an UDFA makes the team.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭Alfred Borden


    COLTS!
    Jeff Saturday without a doubt was our best UDFA, Freeman is for this year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,879 ✭✭✭D3PO


    although on IR this season. Jason Peters the best UDFA on the Eagles squad right now.

    we miss him big time this year.


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