« Reply #13 on: December 25, 2023, 12:18:11 AM »
Brady was an excellent baseball player. Transitioned from 1B to C his senior year and got drafted in 18th round. The Expos thought so highly of him, they offered him late 2nd, early 3rd round money to try and get him away from football. Brady was a far better athlete than he isngiven credit for. He basically had the prototypical build of a power hitter (and QB obviously). He'd have probably had a solid career in the MLB. Too hard to predict how good as there is just so many things that dictate those things.
Do most 18th rounders -- or even 3rd rounders -- make it to MLB? and have a solid career there? What separated him as a baseball prospect from Drew Henson?
Henson was a better football prospect, how'd that work out?
Right. You can't take a middling prospect in any sport and project a solid career for them. Looking at probabilities, Brady probably would have been as successful as Henson, or Tebow, or the vast majority of non-elite prospects.
except Brady clearly has something those guys don't given just how far above his football expectations he went. Brady was a special dude. Those guys always seem to find a way to success.
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