Have you ever been drawn to a players name in the draft because it just sounded like an NFL name?

[JP51]

Ok, for fun... I just wanna know... when going thru the draft and looking at players do any of you get a feeling or lack of feeling about a player because of their name... I get all of the measurables and research and ratings... but when its close or uncertain I find myself liking one name over another... certainly doesnt make it right nor am I suggesting this as a draft strategy but there is this subconscious bias with a name that seems to push me towards a player...  So, the Josh Allen draft... lots of QBs I wanted Josh will never claim to be able to predict which QB is gonna play out but Josh Allen sounded like a great QB name...  then their were players like John McCargo I was like no dont take him... he sounds like a passenger... LOL... this years name I am drawn too is CJ Allen...  ( although last years was Landon Jackson, so there is that LOL) 

 

** apologies in advance for the real draftniks... I am not... this will probably cause the flame throwers to come out LOL... But it is a long run to the draft and figured it might be fun as I always wondered if anyone else had the same silly idiosyncrasy as me.  

Edited April 10 by JP51

[Steve Billieve]

I didn't mind Bacari Rambo

[JP51]

3 minutes ago, Steve Billieve said:

I didn't mind Bacari Rambo

On of the more "excellent names" we had... too bad he didnt play like rambo... LOL 

[Hermes]

Isn't that the whole reason Boogie Basham made to the league

[Sierra Foothills]

In reverse, this is why I didn't want the Bills to draft Shemar Stewart.

 

[MPL]

Manny Lawson... because I'm also an M. Lawson and I thought it would be the closest I'd ever come to being in the NFL. 

[BontitaBills]

Dick Butkus sounds like a bad ass linebacker.

[Psautcsk]

Boobie Dixon

[13 Seconds to Mars]

Tank Dell

 

[teef]

i always thought d brickashaw ferguson and barkevious mingo were good football names.

[JP51]

48 minutes ago, Hermes said:

Isn't that the whole reason Boogie Basham made to the league

I gotta think that HAD to do something with it LOL 

17 minutes ago, BontitaBills said:

Dick Butkus sounds like a bad ass linebacker.

Thats what I am talking about... 

[Bills!Win!]

13 minutes ago, teef said:

i always thought d brickashaw ferguson and barkevious mingo were good football names.

Whitney Mercilus 

Edited April 10 by Bills!Win!

[US Egg]

Since we’re throwing names out, Bronco Nagurski sounds like someone I want on my team.

[TheBrownBear]

Sonny Sixkiller

[nosejob]

I was gonna say more recently Jack Campbell, but the names above are mo betta.

[Orlando Buffalo]

On the opposite side - Diamond Ferri. Just not football tough

 

[GunnerBill]

The opposite way round corners with african surnames...... they just never seem to pan out that well. This year it is Igbinosun. I have to be aware of my conscious bias when I watch his games.

[Don Otreply]

Baylon Spector, James Bond villain name…, lol

[blacklabel]

Rachad Wildgoose!

[BigAl2526]

I like a cool name as much as anyone, but I really don't think about it when forming opinions about the value of a player.