Jarryd Hayne to the NFL!

[B-Tron 3000]

Not a big risk at all for Hayne.

He has the speed, strength, size to adapt.

He is an athlete.

Good on him I say.

I admire him in a way for believing in himself, but I just can't see how he is any chance of making an NFL team. Players as athletic as him spend years in High School and College learning the game and most still need one or two years in the pros before making it. The playbook of an NFL team is massive, and players who have played the game their whole life and have it in their blood sometimes struggle just moving from one team to another.

It's not all about being athletic (although you need to be a top one just to have a chance), it's about the complexity of the game. When he is trying like hell to work out if he should jink left or step right, it'll be too late and a dude the size of Willie Mason will have pummelled him into the ground. It took Jarryd until he was 26 to be consistent at Rugby League, a game that is 100 times more simple!!

I think he's got two chances. First, as part of Special Teams. That is, returning punts or on the team designed to chase punts and tackle the returner. Problem here is the speed that everything happens on special teams leaves people open for injury - the good players never play special teams for this reason. And with his history of knee and leg problems he will be ripe for being hurt.

Or they'll stick him on a practice squad (essentially to be used as a body for the 1st stringers to bash around at training) as a "project". There he'll need to work his absolute arse off just to prove that he might be a good backup. He'll either realise this and be back for 2015 or someone (maybe himself) will convince him to stay on a practice squad and he'll never be heard of again.

I just can't see him making it.

 

[ElectricEelMan]

He'll be back fairly quick.
Really can't see any team taking too much of a punt on him.

 

[Daneel]

Kick returner is my bet. It's essentially the same as league fullback but with blocking allowed.

But most teams would want him to be at least a 3rd string backup at another position, usually running back, but he has size for safety & speed for wide receiver as well, but NFL teams prefer specialists over generalists.

Then there is always punter

Just had this conversation with a mate, I said kick returner, he said punter, but like you said he would also have to be a third or fourth string running back or wide receiver. For his sake I hope he makes a go of it, in all honesty I don't think he will. Even if he did get picked up he would be lucky to see much game time

 

[Gronk]

Just had this conversation with a mate, I said kick returner, he said punter, but like you said he would also have to be a third or fourth string running back or wide receiver. For his sake I hope he makes a go of it, in all honesty I don't think he will. Even if he did get picked up he would be lucky to see much game time

I don't watch NFL much, but have to agree. Hayne might be elite here, but over there there will be 50 black dudes who are bigger, faster and just as skilful.

 

[deanothep]

Horrible news for Rugby League.

 

[yy_cheng]

I don't watch NFL much, but have to agree. Hayne might be elite here, but over there there will be 50 black dudes who are bigger, faster and just as skilful.

he'll get frustrated if he was j just punting

 

[Parra Pride]

Bring on 2016!

 

[Delboy]

Well, he could have done his ACL in the Four Nations and we would have been without him for the 2015 season and most of his salary would be in the cap

Whilst it is late in the piece, there will be space now in the cap to look at alternatives, Hoffman maybe, or a centre and play Hopoate at fullback.

Honestly think we will see him in blue and gold again, will be a very difficult transition even for an athlete as good as Hayne.

Good luck and what memories we have till he returns

 

[ElectricEelMan]

I don't watch NFL much, but have to agree. Hayne might be elite here, but over there there will be 50 black dudes who are bigger, faster and just as skilful.

I honestly think no team would be willing to give him a full time contract. Maybe a trial. But he has no natural position in the NFL. I am going through all the positions and I all I am thinking is 'no, no, no'

I just hope he doesn't regret this decision in the future because I think it will end up being a 'wasted year' ... in the prime of his NRL career.

 

[El Diablo]

Tim Mannah ‏@tim_mannah https://twitter.com/tim_mannah/status/522179765633953793
Bittersweet feeling. Sad to lose a freak of a team mate in @jarrydhayne_1, but also excited to see one of my best mates chase his dream!

 

[ElectricEelMan]

I have no doubt he will be back here playing in 2016

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Good luck to him. Timing might have been better.....but I guess we can front end some extensions.

 

[yy_cheng]

who will get all his this party agreement s

 

[Parra Pride]

This could be good, we spend 2015 learning how to win games without Hayne. Then we have the capability not to rely on him when he is back in 2016!

 

[Jason Maher]

You poor bastards.

 

[yy_cheng]

who will be captain

 

[cleary89]

Told a 10 year old girl in my class who's a huge eels fan. She just said, "oh well, I'll start watching NFL now"

 

[Gronk]

It is understood Parramatta was only informed of his decision last night.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...he-united-states/story-e6frf3tc-1227091016581

If true we are really f**ked. I was hoping that this has been planned for months and that we had a plan B marquee signing ready to be unleashed.

 

[Parra Pride]

who will be captain

With Hayne gone we can surely bring back Billy Rogers.

 

[cumberlandsashes81]

Considering the Wallabies have zero chance of winning the Rugger World Cup perhaps Izzy may consider a switch back to the NRL before his contract ends at the conclusion of the 2015 RWC...?