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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 1008599" data-attributes="member: 17953">You covered it. Young, need coaching, and talented. Now, bringing it all together, and finding out which players will rise above their peers, and make a name for themselves is the question.I've always believed that any player who makes it onto a roster, or practice squad, is talented. There are also a heck of a lot of players who don't make it that far that have huge talent. It's just that it hasn't been cultivated properly, to help them reach that new level. That's why the occasional player will go from XFL, or the Canadian Football League, etc., to making a roster, and in some cases, become a pretty darned good NFL player.Example? I'll give a couple. Warren Moon. Played for Edmonton in the CFL, and at 28 had his coming out party in the NFL. Stuck around until he was well into his 40s. Joe Kapp. Played for Calgary and British Columbia in Canada, and went on to a stellar NFL career. He walked away, over money, and never looked back. Joe died not that long ago. He was a special guy. The first Chicano to make a name for himself when he went to the NFL. He was the Vikings QB who got them to Super Bowl IV. Sadly, for Joe, they didn't win the game.Now, how are they going to develop that talent to make it form a winning combination?</blockquote>

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