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Saying someone will have better pro stats than in college. Not even the great Tom Brady can claim that. Just a quick look at his stats shows about a 65% completion rate and 7.5 yards per attempt both college and pro. Nah, if you don't show it in college, the odds of showing it in the pros would be high risk to make that bet.
Wasn't talking about just stats, of course. I said I think he'll be a better pro than college player. Much more productive. And he was a decent college player. Solid production. Not spectacular. Not in keeping with his freakish athleticism. But solid.
He's young, too. Just 21. He's still growing into his body. Quite a few NFL rookies are 23 or 24, and the Rams seemed to have drafted mostly in that range this year. Older kids, most of them red-shirting in 2013. Sweat didn't even start college until 2015.
On Brady. As you can see here, he made a massive leap in his TDs, and TD percentage, from college to pro. He went from so so to all-world. Of course it was a relatively small sample size. Really just 1998 and 1999.
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I may be in a minority on this, but I think it makes a lot of sense that a player can be much better as a pro than in college. All kinds of reasons for this. Better coaching, better staff, better team, scheme, fit. The same can make a player worse, too, if it's going in the other direction. And then there's the individual's "want to." The light may just come on for him in the pros, when it wasn't even flashing in college. The opposite too, of course. Throw in injuries, and you have the same dynamic. Personal issues, tragedies, etc. etc.
All kinds of factors can lead to a totally different player, college to pro -- in either direction.
