Notre Dame teammates, and Underclassmen QB Jimmy Clausen (left) and WR Golden Tate (right) will forego their senior years and enter the 2010 NFL Draft. AP Photo/Joe Raymond
After a terrible College Football season, by anyone’s standards most of Notre Dame’s, Junior QB Jimmy Clausen and Junior WR Golden Tate will forego their senior seasons at the school and enter the 2010 NFL draft.
For those of us who have been working on Big Boards and position rankings can go ahead and throw them away. Clausen will enter the 2010 draft as a top five NFL QB prospect.
Clausen threw for 3,722 yards and 28 TD’s, and completed nearly 70% of his pass attempts in his junior season at Notre Dame. For his career he has 8,148 yards and 60 TD’s. His QB rating is 161.43 and for the Cleveland Browns and St. Louis Rams, they now have a serious decision to make. It would not be surprising if he was the first QB taken in 2010.
Tate on the other hand could enter the 2010 NFL draft as the number one receiver prospect. In his 2009 junior season he caught 93 balls for nearly 1,500 yards and 15 TD’s. His average play went for 16.1 yards. For his career he had 157 receptions for 2,707 yards and 26TD’s. More impressive than those stats, for both players, is they put those kinds of numbers up on under performing Notre Dame teams.
For teams like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who drafted their QB in 2009, Tate could be a valuable lesson. If the Cleveland Browns decide that QB Brady Quinn is their long term answer adding a talented receiver like Tate would give them an offensive weapon which they have never seemed to have.
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