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before the prospect settled
Topic Started: May 23 2018, 10:05 PM (15 Views)
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Cook denied having that sort of arrangement with Vic: 鈥淚 was always a guy that stayed on top of what I had to stay on top of. Coach Fisher let me lead the team cause I was always that guy [who was] responsible.鈥?/p>

The summer before his sophomore year, Cook was accused of punching a woman outside of a Tallahassee bar after a confrontation and was charged with assault, to which he pled not guilty. While suspended and awaiting trial, Cook waited each day for the football team to finish summer workouts on the practice field, then got the script and matched their workouts by himself. A jury found Cook not guilty in August, and he was able to return to the football team, bursting into the national spotlight with 1,691 rushing yards in 2015.

鈥淵ou learn that ball can be taken away from you quick,鈥?Cook says. 鈥淚鈥檝e been playing football since I was four years old. I love the game. Love everything it brings. So, you know Colts Darius Leonard Jersey , always think before you put yourself in those situations.鈥?/p>

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There鈥檚 the sabotage that Cook has done to himself. There鈥檚 the sabotage that is a result of the environment he grew up in. And then there鈥檚 the sabotage that has come from others.

Tony Villani聽is not the saboteur. He runs XPE Sports in Boca Raton, one of a handful of preferred South Florida training spots for NFL players and ex-collegians preparing for the combine. Cook arrived in January, committed to perfecting his burst from a three-point stance, something he never had occasion to improve over three years and 5,399 yards from scrimmage as a Seminole, breaking Warrick Dunn’s career rushing record in the process. Cook showed up on time, he listened, and he learned, Villani says.



鈥淚 see a kid from inner city Miami-Dade tearing up the field and you鈥檙e expecting this cocky kid to walk in,鈥?Villani says, 鈥渂ut he鈥檚 almost too humble and quiet. I鈥檓 sitting here trying to show Dalvin Cook how to put his foot in the ground and cut and do all these things, and he鈥檚 all about it.

鈥淚 loved him. When the top guy works as hard as he does, he makes your whole group better.鈥?/p>

To Villani鈥檚 surprise, after the Senior Bowl he started getting calls from scouts and coaches suggesting the opposite. He was told that an agent had started a rumor at the all-star game: Cook was showing up to workouts late鈥攊f he came at all鈥攖hat he鈥檇 arrived with alcohol on his breath on occasion, and with unsavory characters from the neighborhood in tow.Posted Image

鈥淚 told these guys, You know me Cheap Danny Amendola Jersey , you know I鈥檓 not going to lie to you鈥?you鈥檝e got it wrong,鈥?Villani says. 鈥淚t got to the point where I felt I had to go to Dalvin鈥檚 agent and tell him about what people were saying.鈥?/p>

The MMQB spoke with representatives from nine NFL teams on the topic of Cook, and two scouts independently cited the same man as the source of several unverified Cook rumors. This man isn鈥檛 a certified agent, but a 鈥渞unner,鈥?a sort of industry free agent who helps certified agents recruit players during the draft process.

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Villani says he swore off engaging in any business dealings with this runner years ago when he stiffed XPE on a client鈥檚 bill. A scout familiar with the runner suggested he might have had an informal business relationship with Cook before the prospect settled on different representation Cheap Irving Fryar Jersey , though when told the runner鈥檚 name, Cook said he鈥檇 never heard of him.

Says Villani: 鈥淯nfortunately, with so many people out to make a buck off these kids before the draft, it鈥檚 the wild, wild west.鈥?/p>

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Cook says he doesn鈥檛 pay attention to the various quotes from anonymous NFL sources expressing concern, but the one quote that irked the running back鈥檚 camp, if not Cook himself, came from an e.

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