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Quit checking me out.
In terms of NFL talent alone, absolutely. But in terms of on the field play makers, you can't deny there will be very few like Mathieu to ever touch a college football field. Kid was a ball hawk, I have never seen anything like it. If he stays clean LSU had a legit chance at a return trip to the national title in 2012.
I don't think Mathieu was all that honestly. He was too short and he was exposed badly in that 2011 NCG.
But I guess it depends on how much credit you give him for what you said, being a ball hawk. He made a bunch of big time plays that year, but it was like the ball jumped into his hands. It seemed to be a bit of luck on most of them, but I don't know. Some of it has to be him being in the right places, so how do you judge that?
But as a CB, I felt his height was too much of a weakness.