What is the NFL saying about Manti Te'o's set up stock?

Manti Te'o was predicted to be the first within linebacker to be selected this season.

The scandal around Manti Te'o and imaginary sweetheart Lennay Kekua has transcended the activities globe, but, as the scenario untangles, Te'o himself is in the middle of exercising for April's NFL Set up.

Considered at periods a prospective top-10 choose, Te'o's inadequate performance in Notre Dame's BCS Tournament Activity reduction to The state of creola had already seemed to harm the linebacker's draft inventory. But what do NFL groups think of him now, in mild of the latest news? SI.com's Don Financial institutions and Jim Trotter took an unknown study of NFL professionals and trainers to evaluate their views. Below is a testing of the reactions.

THAMEL: THE TE'O TRANSCRIPT
ROSENBERG: MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS


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"I can't create a verdict at this factor. No. 1, it's a unusual set of conditions. When something so unusual happens, I don't hurry to verdict because I don't know details. I've got to discover out what the terrible occurred. It's something a lot of research will be required on.

"...You've got to keep in mind you're referring to 32 different bedrooms and 32 different places of sensibilities. We just don't know yet whether this has any keeping on what type of gamer he is, or what type of individual he is.

"If he's implied in it and had some type of part in this whole plan, then definitely you've got to look at that in a different way. The way his position gets affected is if it goes that path. I don't think he gets affected if he's just a sufferer and a innocent kid and just got captured up in something. Even in him getting captured up in it, if you dig strong and all of a rapid you recognize he had nothing to do with it, but then as it developed and he noticed it was a scam didn't know how to deal with it, and created a bad choice, if it's along those collections then that's a lot more forgivable.

"But if it comes out that it's a scenario actually where he did this by style, then all of a rapid you've got to dig further because you've got to evaluate who he really is, in perspective of all these other factors. That's where it possibly effects him. Because in the seeking procedure, we try to colour an image of who these people are. And if he's showed himself a certain way and you believe this guy is this, and now you've got new details to recommend he might be that, then you've got to dig further and you've got to determine what you're relaxed with. That's how this is going to occur.''

-- NFL GM

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"Using the apparent legal disclaimer that I know the globe is now an immediate details pattern, there's still so much about this that I don't think anybody is aware of. Obviously trying to estimate draft inventory in Jan is risky anyway, and this tale just creates it truly risky.

"But the one query you have for somebody whose intangibles were expected to be the characteristic of the gamer, there's a reputational danger that's probably higher for him than it would be for a gamer who has off-the-field occurrences, but who you already noticed taken some danger.

On whether the scandal could help describe Te'o's BCS headline game performance:

"What was forcing Te'o up the forums was the authority, the personality, the reliability, the tale. The dish game probably re-focused the discussion a little bit on his actual abilities away from the tale. This just reduces the tale, which will put him returning to where he should be selected on actual abilities alone. If he was going to get a push for the personality, this probably neutralizes that.''

On whether this is a exclusive red flag:

"Nothing's completely exclusive, but this is a modern-day red banner. There are plenty of experiences that you get in the draft that nobody has actual solutions to. They're just usually not this community and they don't usually perform out this way. We were limited to have a first community media-related query level to come up at some factor in the draft, and this is it.''

"There's so plenty of your energy and energy and effort remaining to respond to concerns and to convert anything that could be adverse into a good. This is just the first section of the guide. It would be foolish to think you've study the epilogue.''

-- NFL team executive

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