The NFL draft is a huge time for prospects with dreams of playing for a professional team. Young adults sit in anticipation as they wonder when their name will be called and by who. I still remember Geno Smith’s face as he anxiously awaited for a team to select him as a first round pick in 2013, only for it to not happen that way.
Nebraska’s Randy Gregory knows how it feels. He was all too sure that he would be chosen by a team yesterday, but unfortunately he was not one of the 32 names called. Some are saying that his draft stock had fallen after testing positive for weed at the NFL Combine. Before then, experts expected him to be #1 overall.
It’s unknown whether that has anything to do with why Gregory wasn’t selected in the first round but friends close to him say he took it pretty hard. “Randy is extremely disappointed. We thought he’d drop, no one predicted he’d be out of the first round,” one source says. “Randy is a little distraught over last night and didn’t even imagine this happening, but he’s keeping his faith,” says another source. “His mindset is he’s going to show people why they should have picked him. He wants to prove he’s a top talent. All of the teams that passed on him … someone’s gonna have a problem.”
Dear Young Folks, please know what it feels like to experience failure and understand that THIS is not it. So you didn’t get drafted first round? Well, there’s always Saturday, and if you are as good as you say, you will be playing in the big leagues regardless. Don’t let your ego tell you what God has already figured out. Just follow the plan and work as hard as you can.
