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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1073481, member: 40"]
There's a difference between a guy with limited draft prospects returning to college and younger players with draft upside opting to leave too early.  Grant wasn't going to get any less athletic next year, and in all likelihood would have been the focal point of the offense / had the opportunity to put up fantastic numbers to bolster his stock.

I don't specifically knock him for his decision to declare, but I do think [and expressed at the time of his declaration] that it was risky--at best.  And as events transpired, I think it is pretty clear that it didn't work out in his favor.  Now, this isn't completely insurmountable for Jerami.  He can still make the bigs, plug along, and [god willing] earn a more lucrative second contract.  But even making the league is no guarantee.  And I refuse to believe that this is what Grant aspired to when he decided to declare hardship and end his college career.  To be a mid-second round pick with fringe statistical probability of sticking.
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