When you are young, seemingly have the world by the tail and a future that looks bright you tend to make mistakes.
But this mistake goes beyond youthful dumbass-ness we all have been through. It shows he does not have the judgement to surrounded himself with folks who can help him maximize his success.
He could still be a premiere HOF football player, but the odds he gets the chance to get to that level (or even gets to play considering the manslaughter charges) have just been reduced significantly.
Even if totally acquitted, it raises red flags of common sense, who you surround yourself with (guess he didn't have Chris Carter's "fall guy" to fall back on) and commitment to what you have to do to become the best and just general all-around awareness.
Maybe it "scares him straight", but more likely he does something as dumb (or maybe not even as dumb as the tolerance toward it will be less) after he's drafted. Stupid is as Stupid does.....
I can see the Bears not drafting him at all. This franchise cannot be taking flyers at players like this with such boom or bust (with the bust considerably higher because of character concerns) considering the many, Many, MANY weaknesses on the current roster.
I hope the kid get his life straight but he just greased the hill he has to climb to get to the top.....
This does shake up draft things though.....
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