Since 2000, five wide receivers have been taken with the 36th selection in the NFL Draft.
The most recent, of course, is Kansas State’s Jordy Nelson, who was nabbed by the Green Bay Packers. It began in 2000, when the Philadelphia Eagles took Todd Pinkston out of Southern Mississippi. It continued the following season when my Cincinnati Bengals drafted Oregon State’s Chad Johnson. A year later, the Buffalo Bills grabbed LSU’s Josh Reed.
Does a 6-foot-2 version of former Texas standout P.J. Tucker sound appealing?
According to Mark Komara, the man who runs the Southeast Elite, an AAU organization based in Huntsville, Ala., that’s what can be expected from Varez Ward, the 6-foot-2 combination guard from the Patterson School in Lenoir, N.C..
Kansas State offered Ward, who was previously committed to Cincinnati, a scholarship after watching him in the Pearland Classic over the weekend. Frank Martin was there, and Komara said Thursday that Ward would be a fine fit with the Wildcats.