Profootballtalk.com made a statement which could come true. There may be no wide receivers drafted in the first round which could help the Birds.
The guy who many thought would be the first wide receiver off the board had a terrible week Malcolm Kelly of Oklahoma University ran a 4.7 in the forty yard dash which was bad enough. He didn't stop there.
After running the poor time he blamed the facility coordinators at OU for his poor time. In fact he went into an emotionally-charged rant and did it publicly. This may have been worse than running the bad time. The New York Times thoroughly rips him another one.
Personally I agree with Profootballweekly.com and their belief that you can't judge a player solely by their forty time. They correctly indentified players like Michael Irvin, Larry Fitzgerald, Anquan Baldin and Braylon Edwards as guys who are big like Kelly and didn't have good forty times. These guys are all NFL superstars and Irvin has done even better than that and been voted to the Hall Of Fame.
Now there are NFL people who think he could fall to the second round because of the poor time and this classless act of blaming it on somebody else. I don't like the fact that everybody seems to treat things that happen near the draft as being more important than other crucial events that happened a month or two ago.
Kelly made a mistake but is that worse than the guy who got in trouble with the law a few months ago.
This could help the Birds because it'll allow them to address another position in the first round and get the wide receiver in the second round. Who knows they may decide that Kelly is their guy.
