Despite a stellar career as four-year starter at Ole Miss, the undervalued safety prospect has been largely ignored by the draft media. That's OK, he says. "I'll find a way in."
The NFL Draft has always been a mechanism that favors potential over production. Value is measured not by statistics accrued on the field, but by conformity to an ideal physical prototype.
Which is how we so often end up with cases like Ole Miss' Trae Elston, a four-year starter at safety who piled up All-American awards as a senior but has received shockingly little attention from pro teams and draft media.