Woodson to Daily News: Draft was tough to swallow

The New York Daily News has a story this morning on ex-UK quarterback Andre Woodson, who just completed a rookie mini-camp with the New York Giants.

Woodson talked about his free fall in the NFL draft, saying he still doesn't know what exactly happened.

Excerpts:

• "I think a lot of people still to this day don't really know why I dropped as much as I did," said Woodson.

• "It was kind of tough to swallow as the draft was going on," the 6-4, 227-pounder said. "As it went past the third round, fourth round, I still couldn't believe I hadn't been taken off the board yet. You know, those types of things happen. Unfortunately it happened to me. But I'm just going to be very positive about it and try to be a better quarterback so maybe possibly down the road I'll get an opportunity to get back on the field."

• On pro scouts nit-picking his "slow" release: "Some of the things I did in the SEC, you have to be pretty good to do that. But unfortunately that's something I have to try to clean up and work with (quarterbacks coach Chris) Palmer to see what I can do to make that better."

• If the name Chris Palmer sounds familiar, it should. Palmer was head coach of Cleveland when the Browns made another ex-UK quarterback, Tim Couch, the No. 1 pick in the 1999 draft.

• You can read the entire story here.

Comments

[raindogzilla]

As big a fan of Woodson at UK as I was, the last several games of his senior season he looked almost, I don't know, like a deer in headlights back there in the pocket. I'm not sure what changed from, say, the LSU game til then but that lack of mobility that he seemed to rise above earlier seemed to become insurmountable. Still, I couldn't see him going past the third round.

[Tikkanen]

A Wonderlic score of 14 didn't help much, either. He should just be grateful he's been drafted onto a team where he can learn the offense and be groomed to make a nice living as a backup QB.