The NEXT: Move for Sam Bradford?

He has a week after the BCS Title game to declare for the NFL. Should he?

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"You don't know that!"

This topic has already been discussed by men far smarter than us, but we stumbled across a Bob Stoops quote from last week and decided to run it. Regarding Heisman winner Sam Bradford projecting high in the NFL Draft, Stoops hit a reporter with this: "You don't know that. Those people who are projecting that have no idea about that. You guys are making something that isn't there unless you have got a draft projection back that I didn't. O.K.? So you're going on speculation that rarely is correct. If he's a top-five guy, he ought to go. If he isn't, he'll be a top-five guy at some point in his career. At least that's my belief. There's a big difference. He still has a lot he'll improve and mature and physically grow and mentally handling everything. There's so much that people don't talk about that throw those projections around that don't take into consideration."

Intense. If he came out, what happens to this?

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