Pryor eligible for Supp draft - out first 5 games

[victor2111]

NFL: Terrelle Pryor OK for draft

The NFL declared former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor eligible for the supplemental draft Thursday but ruled that he will not be able to play in the first five games of the 2011 season after he signs a contract.

The league announced Pryor was eligible in a memo sent to its 32 teams Thursday. The 2011 supplemental draft will take place Monday, Aug. 22.

The NFL said that Pryor can play in preseason games after he is drafted, although he can't play until Week 6 of the season.

"... Pryor made decisions that undermine the integrity of the eligibility rules for the NFL Draft. Those actions included failing to cooperate with the NCAA and hiring an agent in violation of NCAA rules, which resulted in Ohio State declaring him ineligible to continue playing college football.

"Pryor then applied to enter the NFL after the regular draft. Pryor had accepted at the end of the 2010 college football season a suspension for the first five games of the 2011 season for violating NCAA rules. Pryor will be ineligible to practice prior to or play in the first five games of the NFL regular season after he signs."

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OMG this is funny - so Team, you can draft him, but he cannot practice, and he will not be available until 6 weeks in the season. have fun.

LOL - awesome.

[angrybaldman]

Karma is a bitch TP

[Queenjimmyjamtosu]

What??? I don't understand why he can play in preseason games but is ineligible to practice

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HAHA! Love it! He does get his 5 games still.

Now are the Browns going to pick him???

[WANG]

Good for the NFL, I hope they continue to do this for players who get caught violating NCAA rules and then bolt for the NFL.

It's always frustrating that the people who generally pay for these players "crimes" are the ones who had nothing to do with it (see players still at the University).

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Aug 18, 2011 10:06:13 GMT -5 WANG said:

Good for the NFL, I hope they continue to do this for players who get caught violating NCAA rules and then bolt for the NFL.

It's always frustrating that the people who generally pay for these players "crimes" are the ones who had nothing to do with it (see players still at the University).

When they start doing it to the Pete Carrolls, I will be more impressed.

[buckeyebikerbabe]

LMAO!!! I love it! Pure genius.

[victor2111]

Pryor is allow to practice according to a report. EDIT: NVM. Read it wrong.

The reason he is suspended for 5 games is because he didn't work with the NCAA against Ohio State.

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I like it too, however other than the 5 weeks of missed practices I really don't think this is that big of a deal. If Pryor is to make it in the NFL he is a developmental player at best. I don't feel he would see the field much, if at all in that time. But, atleast the NFL is sending the message that you can't just run to us without taking your punishment when you screw up in college.

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Aug 18, 2011 12:27:03 GMT -5 victor2111 said:

Pryor is allow to practice according to a report. EDIT: NVM. Read it wrong.

The reason he is suspended for 5 games is because he didn't work with the NCAA against Ohio State.

[victor2111]

From SI:

NFL’s Terrelle Pryor decision a head-scratcher

USC finished last season 8-5 but was ineligible to play in a bowl game, because of punishments resulting from an NCAA investigation into the Trojans’ football program. Pete Carroll, meanwhile, took the Seahawks to the NFL playoffs.

Carroll, USC’s coach from 2001-09, skipped town in January 2010 to take the Seattle coaching job, right as the NCAA was digging into allegations of impropriety under Carroll’s watch at USC. In June, the NCAA announced that it found a lack of institutional control within the Trojans’ football and basketball programs — USC football was hit with a two-year postseason ban, the loss of 30 scholarships, the forfeiture of a year’s worth of victories including a national title and probation.

Carroll got a $33 million contract from Seattle. The NFL barely made a peep.

Fast-forward to Thursday, when the league announced that Terrelle Pryor could enter this year’s supplemental draft but would carry an NCAA-mandated five-game suspension into the NFL, making the quarterback ineligible to even practice until Week 6 of this season.

Sorry. I just don’t get it.

I will be the last person that tells you Pryor deserves a break — in my mind, it’s a sham that Pryor and the four other Ohio State players suspended last December by the NCAA were allowed to play in January’s Sugar Bowl. And I definitely don’t have any inclination to argue that Pryor will be a great, or even good, NFL QB.

You can try to make the argument, too, that the NFL was just sticking to its guns — Pryor was not eligible for the supplemental draft when he first left Ohio State, because he had not yet been suspended for his entire senior season. After the fact, OSU banned him from the program for five years. So, the NFL rightly raised an eyebrow, wondering if all that tap-dancing was done just so Pryor could get into the supplemental draft.

And comparing Pryor to Carroll (or Reggie Bush, the main focus of the NCAA’s investigation into USC) can only be done while acknowledging the differences in the two cases — namely, that Carroll hadn’t been punished by the NCAA prior to entering the NFL.

But none of that changes the fact that the NFL has turned many a blind eye in the past — heck, the whole idea of the supplemental draft is based on guys losing their eligibility between the regular NFL draft deadline and August — only to throw down the gauntlet on Pryor.

“You can’t break rules that undermine the integrity of our eligibility rules and get a free pass into the NFL,” league spokesman Greg Aiello tweeted after Thursday’s ruling.

If that’s the stance, where’s the league going to draw the line now? It wasn’t with Carroll or Bush. It wasn’t with the other players in this year’s supplemental draft, including Georgia’s Caleb King, who flunked out of school and then immediately looked to the NFL. And it probably won’t be with the plethora of former Miami Hurricanes implicated in this week’s story about illicit interactions with a booster.

The problem with Thursday’s ruling is that it created such a gray area. If, instead of waiting until June to leave OSU and start thinking about the NFL, Terrelle Pryor had just, say, skipped class from January to April, he’d apparently be just fine in the eyes of the NFL.

It seems like the league wanted to put its foot down here, either for its own dignity or to throw a bone to the NCAA, which is getting hammered with high-profile issues right now. How can all this start and end with Pryor, though? He’s not the first, nor will he be the last, player or coach to circumvent problems in college by jumping to the pros.

Carroll just did it last year. Ex-Ohio State coach, Jim Tressell, may try it soon too. For whatever reason, the NFL only cares about Pryor’s attempt.

[thepryoreffect]

The players union should fight this like crazy. The NFL is already bad enough, they should have no say on what happened to a player in college. They have never cared before and what Pryor did isn't even close to what others have done.

[Queenjimmyjamtosu]

Aug 18, 2011 12:27:03 GMT -5 victor2111 said:

Pryor is allow to practice according to a report. EDIT: NVM. Read it wrong.

The reason he is suspended for 5 games is because he didn't work with the NCAA against Ohio State.

I get that Vic what I don't understand is why say he can play in preseason

[thepryoreffect]

Aug 19, 2011 7:12:55 GMT -5 Queenjimmyjamtosu said:

Aug 18, 2011 12:27:03 GMT -5 victor2111 said:

Pryor is allow to practice according to a report. EDIT: NVM. Read it wrong.

The reason he is suspended for 5 games is because he didn't work with the NCAA against Ohio State.

I get that Vic what I don't understand is why say he can play in preseason

I think it probably has something to do with getting the player ready physically. Not sure but I know Roethlisberger was able to play in the preseason last year when he was suspended.