It's been a while since the age of 25 has only made many jokes have been too old.
Shough, whose first university snaps returned in 2018, had a lot of positive features, but it was also difficult to ignore that it will be 28 years old on September 28. He is about a year younger than Jalen Hurts, who has just won a Super Bowl MVP. He was in the same recruitment class of the school as Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields, Micah Parsons and Patrick Surain II. Most teams do not want to invest in a high choice of draft in a player who is this age in the draft.
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The saints were not dissuaded. They chose Shough with the 40th choice of NFL draft on Friday. They notably transmitted the quarter of the Colorado Sheder Sanders to take Shough.
Even if Shough is old for a recruit from the NFL, he has experience. He appeared in seven different seasons for Oregon, Texas Tech and Louisville, extending his eligibility with an additional cocovid season and a medical red shirt. Last season with Louisville, he emerged with 3,195 yards and 23 affected. He was not on the NFL radar before that, but during his seventh university season, he showed a good arm, a good size and a good production.
Shuch is far from being a long-term project in the quarter, so it will be interesting to see how its development takes shape. The saints could use a new quarter-Arrière immediately leaving, with the availability of Derek Carr in 2025 uncertain due to shoulder injury. Shough could start early in the season, according to Carr. Whenever he plays Shough, it is finally his NFL shot, long after some of the stars in his recruitment class.
