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Scouts make damning comments following draft selection of former Oklahoma WR Dede Westbrook
By Will Ogburn
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Oklahoma WR Dede Westbrook gained notoriety with a late season push that saw him invited to the Heisman Trophy presentation. Now he’s garnering attention for a very different reason, as scouts and analysts are publicly questioning his conduct issues.
The undersized, 6-foot, 178-pound prospect needed to make an impression on scouts for his pro career to mirror the success he achieved in college, but it appears that NFL teams left his interviews with a less-than-rosy opinion of Westbrook’s character.
So @McShay13 just said new Jags WR Dede Westbrook is the only player he's ever heard of being kicked out of a 15-minute combine interview.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) April 29, 2017
And then, there's this text just now from an AFC area scout on Dede Westbrook: "No thoughts. It is what it is. He's a degenerate."
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) April 29, 2017
Dede Westbrook was arrested on two separate domestic violence charges in 2012 and 2013, but both cases were dropped.
— John Reid (@JohnReid64) April 29, 2017
Many NFL prospects have made a mistake or two during their college years, but Westbrook’s case is anything but typical.
This excerpt from a Dallas News story on Westbrook details his history of violence:
Westbrook was accused of throwing the mother of his two children to the ground in 2012 and biting the same woman’s arm and punching her with a closed fist in 2013, according to the report. Westbrook was never convicted in either incident, however.
After those incidents, Westbrook appeared to show no regard for their gravity, as he gave this eyebrow-raising quote at the NFL Combine, seconds after defending teammate Joe Mixon.
“I got in some trouble and I did some things as well, but I was never convicted of anything,” Westbrook told reporters. “Like, I’ve been to jail, but all the charges [were] dropped. I have no pending charges or anything. So I think I’m just like you.”
It’s not hard to see why so many teams passed on Westbrook during the first two days of the draft.
A former resident of both Baton Rouge and the heart of Crimson Tide country, Will Ogburn handles multimedia content and news coverage for Saturday Down South.
