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I'll be the first to admit my NFL career was nothing to brag about. However, I can also tell you I've been around plenty of special NFL players in my lifetime.

I've been around this game my whole life. The first quarterback I was ever around was Phil Simms. The first linebackers I ever met were Lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson. I was on the field a lot in training camps as a young kid and saw these guys do incredible things.

Then I went to college at the University of Texas, where basically the whole front seven played in the NFL. Derrick Johnson is still the middle linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, and we had guys like Shaun Rogers, Casey Hampton and Cory Redding. I was around a lot of first-round talent every day for four years straight.

Then I went to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the years after they won the Super Bowl and got to be around guys like Warren Sapp, Derrick Brooks and Simeon Rice on an everyday basis once again.

My point is that I feel like I've got a pretty good gauge of what an NFL player looks like—and what a special player looks like. When it comes to this year's draft, I see some players that, while touted as future elite NFL players, carry too much risk in my eyes.

Whether due to off-field issues, bad game tape or questionable ability, these guys carry too many questions for me to consider them safe prospects. We're not talking about mid-round players here. We're talking about first- or second-round prospects who are supposed to be sure things—and they're far from it.