There’s a clip from the 2017 NFL Draft that will never leave my head. On the studio set for ESPN, Mel Kiper was asked to addressed scout comments that proclaimed that Myles Garrett wasn’t all-in on football. In a flurry, Kiper dissected the criticism and loudly proclaimed Garrett’s other interests, including dinosaurs and Motown.
Anyway, that’s all to say that the same criticisms surrounding Myles Garrett have come to find Oregon’s Kayvon Thibodeaux in this NFL Draft. As the draft calendar hits its agonizing calm before the thunderstorm, Thibodeaux has garnered plenty of scouting reports accusing him of taking plays off, making “business decisions” and not having his whole heart into football.