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Mike Person signs

Post by Hawks86 » Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:27 am

https://twitter.com/montanasports/status/915577272953958400


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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by Walk-on » Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:54 am

Thanks for sharing. I just looked him up the other day, to find nothing. Glad he's back.


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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by VimSince03 » Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:32 pm

Well look who showed up as the highest graded center in the NFL in Week 13...
https://twitter.com/PFF/status/938517430527254528


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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by BleedingBLue » Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:39 pm

VimSince03 wrote:Well look who showed up as the highest graded center in the NFL in Week 13...
https://twitter.com/PFF/status/938517430527254528
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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by Hell's Bells » Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:56 pm

BleedingBLue wrote:
VimSince03 wrote:Well look who showed up as the highest graded center in the NFL in Week 13...
https://twitter.com/PFF/status/938517430527254528
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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by PapaG » Thu Dec 07, 2017 2:22 am

VimSince03 wrote:Well look who showed up as the highest graded center in the NFL in Week 13...
https://twitter.com/PFF/status/938517430527254528
The NFL draft is such a crapshoot.

You have an UDFA in Person, a first-round pick that saw that Cowboys roundly criticized for picking that high in Frederick, a 6th-round pick in Kelce, and a 5th-round pick in Kilgore as the top four graded centers for the week. I'm guessing other positions would show a similar pattern. Season-ending grades along with draft position for the top 5 may be an interesting way to spend part a soggy Oregon February weekend afternoon.


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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by lutecat » Thu Dec 07, 2017 5:13 am

I heard something on Cowherd the other day about the patriots deciding it was less worth their time to evaluate college players to draft and more worth it to sign known players that had played. No need to project. The point was the pats are the ones usually trying new things before the rest of the league and starting trends.

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Re: Mike Person signs

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Good for him!



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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by BLACKnBLUEnGOLD » Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:34 pm

PapaG wrote:
VimSince03 wrote:Well look who showed up as the highest graded center in the NFL in Week 13...
https://twitter.com/PFF/status/938517430527254528
The NFL draft is such a crapshoot.

You have an UDFA in Person, a first-round pick that saw that Cowboys roundly criticized for picking that high in Frederick, a 6th-round pick in Kelce, and a 5th-round pick in Kilgore as the top four graded centers for the week. I'm guessing other positions would show a similar pattern. Season-ending grades along with draft position for the top 5 may be an interesting way to spend part a soggy Oregon February weekend afternoon.
I'm pretty sure Person was drafted, although I'm also pretty sure it was in the 6th or 7th round.

It's also important to point out that teams don't usually spend high draft picks on centers.


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Re: Mike Person signs

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BLACKnBLUEnGOLD wrote:
PapaG wrote:
VimSince03 wrote:Well look who showed up as the highest graded center in the NFL in Week 13...
https://twitter.com/PFF/status/938517430527254528
The NFL draft is such a crapshoot.

You have an UDFA in Person, a first-round pick that saw that Cowboys roundly criticized for picking that high in Frederick, a 6th-round pick in Kelce, and a 5th-round pick in Kilgore as the top four graded centers for the week. I'm guessing other positions would show a similar pattern. Season-ending grades along with draft position for the top 5 may be an interesting way to spend part a soggy Oregon February weekend afternoon.
I'm pretty sure Person was drafted, although I'm also pretty sure it was in the 6th or 7th round.

It's also important to point out that teams don't usually spend high draft picks on centers.
Drafted by the 49ers in the 7th round, IIRC. Wasn't drafted as a center, but in his time in the NFL he has learned to play all 5 O-line positions.


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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by BLACKnBLUEnGOLD » Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:42 pm

That's fairly common around the league for guys drafted at other positions to end up playing center. Out of the guys in that graphic, only Travis Frederick was primarily a center in college. Neither Kilgore nor Person ever played center in college, although Kilgore did play center in high school.


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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by blueandgoldblitz » Sat Dec 09, 2017 12:37 pm

BLACKnBLUEnGOLD wrote:That's fairly common around the league for guys drafted at other positions to end up playing center. Out of the guys in that graphic, only Travis Frederick was primarily a center in college. Neither Kilgore nor Person ever played center in college, although Kilgore did play center in high school.
Both Kilgore and Person were drafted by the 49ers in the same draft (2011). Kilgore was a 5th round pick (163 overall) out of then FCS App State and Person was drafted in the 7th round (239 overall). Both were originally drafted to be guards first but the 49ers (and coach Jim Harbaugh) wanted them to be versatile enough to learn all IOL positions. Funny that they're now both starting centers in the NFL.



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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by PapaG » Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:42 pm

I'm fairly certain I've never seen a player say "Montana State" on a national night game.

Mike Person just said "Mike Person, Montana State" as he's starting at center tonight for the Colts.

Way to go, Mike!


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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by vike_king » Thu Dec 14, 2017 11:51 pm

PapaG wrote:I'm fairly certain I've never seen a player say "Montana State" on a national night game.

Mike Person just said "Mike Person, Montana State" as he's starting at center tonight for the Colts.

Way to go, Mike!
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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by Long Time Cat » Fri Dec 15, 2017 2:24 pm

PapaG wrote:I'm fairly certain I've never seen a player say "Montana State" on a national night game.

Mike Person just said "Mike Person, Montana State" as he's starting at center tonight for the Colts.

Way to go, Mike!
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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by Walk-on » Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:46 pm

He was long-snapping too, an excellent skill to have on his resume. He did a lot of long snapping in the pre-season. I think Dane Fletcher learned to long-snap too.

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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by Hawks86 » Sat May 05, 2018 6:37 pm

https://twitter.com/gregrachac/status/992907057421484033 Mike at center and JP at guard. :thumbup:


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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by gtapp » Sun May 06, 2018 5:36 am

This being his 8th year he should be approaching one of the longest careers of any Bobcat in the NFL. I think Jon Borchardt was about 8 years and the same for Kollar.


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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by HelenaCat » Sun May 06, 2018 8:01 am

gtapp wrote:This being his 8th year he should be approaching one of the longest careers of any Bobcat in the NFL. I think Jon Borchardt was about 8 years and the same for Kollar.
Going to be hard to beat Jan Stenerud for that honor. But Mike has certainly had a fine career and has always represented MSU extremely well.



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Re: Mike Person signs

Post by Hawks86 » Wed May 09, 2018 10:48 am

https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/994256070536302592


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