Jets CB Jamal Adams Destroys NFL Writer For Telling Teams They Shouldn’t Draft Shaquem Griffin Because He Only Has One Hand

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Last week during the NFL combine, UCF standout linebacker Shaquem Griffin wowed out the combine despite having lost his hand due to a rare disease when he was a child. Griffin had such a good combine that he may have moved up from being possibly undrafted to a potential third round pick.

Not everyone is enamored with Griffin. Today, Rivals.com writer Mike Farrell wrote a scathing piece advising teams to not draft Griffin because he only has one hand.

Via Rivals.com

I’m going to say what no one else has the guts to say. I wouldn’t draft Shaquem Griffin if I was in charge of an NFL team.

Griffin, who was born with a condition called Amniotic Band Syndrome which caused his fingers on his left hand not to fully develop, had his left hand amputated when he was four years old. Since then he has played football, baseball, track and has become a star at the college level for UCF on the gridiron. He helped lead his team to an undefeated season this past year while being named the AAC Defensive Player of the Year and MVP of the Peach Bowl against Auburn.

And now he just killed the combine, running the best time for a linebacker since 2003 and bench pressing 225 pounds 20 times with a prosthetic. Many now feel he has moved himself into the fourth or fifth round of the draft after his performance.

So why wouldn’t I draft him? Call me a hater if you want or whatever curse words you want to use, but I just don’t think a player can be effective at the NFL level without a hand. How will he tackle elite NFL players? How will he shed blocks of 350-pound tackles? How will he intercept stray passes?

Jets cornerback Jamal Adams took exception to Farrell’s column especially since Farrell as a scout was wrong about Adams entire football career.

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