The Last Guy Picked
He might have been the last guy picked in the 2009 NFL draft but I can bet you one thing, he doesn’t care. He is in, he’s there, he’s going and he has to be super excited. South Carolina’s Ryan Succop earned the honor when the Kansas City Chiefs selected him as the 256th and final pick this year.
What do we know about Ryan Succop – enough. I saw his picture and he certainly appears to look good enough to make a TV Boyfriend by my standards. He was 20-30 in his field goal attempts including a perfect 30 for 30 in extra points for Steve Spurrier’s team in 2008. He didn’t make the ALL-SEC team but he was the 5th rated kicker on Mel Kiper’s board.
Kansas City took 2 kickers this year and saw enough promise in him to take him as one of them. And, get this, while he is out there making records, he is only the 3rd kicker to ever be selected as the final pick. So hey, how can you complain?
He is 22 years old and will likely compete with incumbent kicker Connor Barth for the starting position in Kansas City. And, rumor has it, he’s good for it, he doesn’t seem to have any problems dealing with attention. Most guys who look like him are quite accustom to attention so hey, he is just simply another college athlete in that sense.
See what I mean, does this look like a guy who’s being bothered by attention?
And more importantly than anything, he graduated. He isn’t one of those college athletes that put all his chickens in the NFL, and it’s a good thing I guess when you get down to being the last pick, eh? He’s good for it though, check him out.
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