stillers4me
05-09-2011, 04:50 AM
Long-time and respected Steelers’ reporter Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazetteblogged that there is no chance whatsoever that Willie Colon will move to guard because “he does not run well enough to play the position (http://plus.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/pro-sports/steelers/109752-gerry-listen-up-colon-not-moving-to-guard).”
First, people should never speak or write in absolutes outside of tested research in the hard sciences. Second, every single draft and scouting service listed Colon as a guard prospect when he came out of Hofstra in 2006, so it is certainly not absurd to think he could play that position. It should be noted that many current NFL guards also played tackle in college; and at 6-foot-3, 320 pounds, Colon physically looks much more like an NFL guard than tackle..............
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First, people should never speak or write in absolutes outside of tested research in the hard sciences. Second, every single draft and scouting service listed Colon as a guard prospect when he came out of Hofstra in 2006, so it is certainly not absurd to think he could play that position. It should be noted that many current NFL guards also played tackle in college; and at 6-foot-3, 320 pounds, Colon physically looks much more like an NFL guard than tackle..............
read more @ http://www.steelerslounge.com/2011/05/write-absolutes-willie-colon/#more-5324