Great story. Great combine 40, but he is still a small conference guy that would be a mid rounder if he had two hands, except he doesn't. Hell, NFL.com is too afraid to mention it and doesn't even list that as a weakness! I hope I am wrong, but what he is as a player is middle of the road, add in the disability and he will never be more than a special teamer.
It's shocking that they invited him to the draft. Poor guy is going to sit there days with the camera panning to him relentlessly. NFL should be embarrassed. It's like them bringing up disadvantaged kids to announce a pick. They are prostituting him for their benefit. I wish him all the best, but I just don't see it.
Look at all his numbers in 2017. If he had two hands, he would be far from a mid rounder. There is no one who will be drafted in the first round (I repeat - NO ONE) this year who has comparable numbers to him. He has more sacks than most linebackers and would have respectable sack numbers for a D lineman. More tackles and tackles for loss than most corners and safeties. His forced fumbles, fumbles recovered and interceptions (yes, interceptions) are not an embarrassment to him.
For being an eye doctor, you need to get your eyes examined. You are suffering from the same illness that has affected most people in his life. You don't see a football player but rather a handicap. Immediately, you make a judgement that he cannot play football because of the handicap.
Until 2017, he was just a special teams player. Why? Because another blind person wouldn't give him a chance. Yet someone gave him a chance in 2017 and how did he do? Top defensive player in his conference (yes, not a big conference but they played against some major programs) and top player in his bowl game.
Yes, the NFL knew that he wouldn't be drafted until at least the 3rd round but so did he. People end up embarrassed in the green room because they had an unexpected slide out of the 1st round or at least into the late 1st round. Griffin won't be sliding out of the 1st round because he was never going to be drafted in the 1st round. He will be celebrating with the 1st rounders when they get picked.
Whenever he gets picked, he will again have to fight against the blind people to get his chance at being on the field. He will start out as a special teams ace which is quite funny because the same blind people who say that he can't succeed as a one-handed player because of tackling issues will be happy because he will be a successful special teams ace where the main job is, you guessed it, tackling.
