Happy Post-Draft Monday Cougs, and of course we hope all is well in your world.
And a HUGE congrats thrown the way of QB#10 for good ol' Wazzu, as Jeff Tuel signed with the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent. We at WSUFB couldn't be happier for Tuel, who dealt with a lot of things in his Coug career. From arriving on the scene as a true frosh and seemingly anointed "The ONE" to lead us out of darkness, it just didn't quite work out as hoped. Tuel did have a strong sophomore season, where he started all 12 games and threw for 2,780 yards, 18 TD's and 12 INT's, but that was the best it ever was for #10. So much seemed possible after that season, but hard as it is to believe, he would only start 10 games total the rest of his career after that breakthrough performance, and throw just 9 TD's his final two years combined (half of his entire sophomore season). Of course, the injuries took their toll and the sacks, oh, the sacks. 119 of 'em, in 26 career starts, or about 4.6 of them per start. And as the old saying goes, it's not the years, it's the mileage. And those were some HARD miles.
But hey, we'll always have the 2012 Apple Cup! After everything that Tuel saw over the years, hard to imagine a better conclusion to his career than that.
Moving on to some other quick-hitters this morning…
Marquess Wilson is a Chicago Bear, as the monsters of the Midway selected him in the 7th round. The Chicago Sun-Times had a great write-up about MQW, I couldn't recommend it enough to get the Chicago perspective on Wilson and what he might become for the Bears. But they basically summed it up this way:
If the Bears truly did their due diligence on the wide receiver from Washington State, they know what they're getting — a raw, 20-year-old kid with a lot of talent and a lot of growing up to do.
Of course, Twitter blew up amongst the WSU faithful after Wilson was selected, and the one-liners and such were flowing (isn't that always the way with Twitter anyway, where a lot of people have a voice when maybe they should just, you know, maybe just not say anything at all??). But I guess the decision to quit the team with three games left did end up doing some real damage to his draft status after all. Heck, this was a kid some said would be a second round talent by the time he came out, maybe even a late first rounder when it was all said and done. But the fact that he lasted so long does raise some red flags about him, and if he was truly ready mentally and physically to make the leap. I guess we'll find out, and life goes on for Wilson and everyone else for that matter, but it will be interesting to see how things go from here.
While it's hard to say how it will feel to see him in a Bears uni, in the end I will be rooting for him to succeed. It was an ugly break-up, but the guy was a fantastic player for 99% of his Coug tenure and for that I am grateful to have watched him play. Water under the bridge and all that?
Finally, looks like Wade Jacobson is headed to the Redskins, Andrei Lintz is getting a tryout with the Saints, while Travis Long will continue to wait it out. Here's hoping Long lands somewhere soon, but maybe his knee injury is going to continue to hold things up? We'll see.
All for now. Enjoy your Monday, and of course GO COUGS!
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