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Here's a frightening thought from Len Pasquarelli:
Seriously, what the heck were other teams thinking? "Wildcat QB? Meh."?
Then again, I really shouldn't complain, should I?
Julian Edelman, Welker's replacement in the Pats' wild-card loss to the Baltimore Ravens, had six receptions for 44 yards and two touchdowns in that game. Edelman was a seventh-round pick in 2009, and the conventional wisdom was that New England would make the former Kent State star a Wildcat quarterback. But playing principally as a slot receiver, Edelman had 37 catches for 359 yards in his debut season. And he filled in admirably after Welker suffered torn knee ligaments in the regular-season finale.
According to Edelman, only a handful of teams scouted him, but it took just one of them to be impressed enough to draft him despite a lack of combine experience.
Seriously, what the heck were other teams thinking? "Wildcat QB? Meh."?
Then again, I really shouldn't complain, should I?