Brock Lesnar NFL Highlights; "A-Level Athlete"?

[D 1 Wrestler]

That's true of the NBA for sure, but guys have done it in the NFL. Incidentally they are usually college basketball players who were nowhere near good enough to even dream of being an NBA bench warmer.

Not true , if you have height nba will take a flyer on you in attempt to develop your skills. I'm talking center height. There are raw skill guys drafted every year on potential that usually sit in d league

 

[MMAFan232]

It proves that even in the NFL there is a big technical aspect(Especially on the line). These guys had been doing this day after day at a high level from college through the pros. It was still insanely impressive that a guy almost made an NFL team with only high school football experience. Going from his combine numbers he is DEFINITELY an elite athlete. Over 40 reps on the 225 bench test, 36 inch vertical and 4.68 40 at 290lbs is fuckin great even by NFL standars

 

[Blayt7hh]

It's almost like there is some skill involved in football

 

[Kryptt]

For as far removed from the game as he was he did amazing. His sprints were crazy.

Anyhow He has transitioned through multiple sports with varying degrees of success (usually a lot).

War Brock!

 

[War Pig]

Who? He was definitely an athletic freak by NFL standards. He just wasn't a good football player by NFL standards.

No he wasn't an athletic freak by NFL standards. Do you even watch NFL games?

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

No he wasn't an athletic freak by NFL standards. Do you even watch NFL games?

I do. Have you ever heard of the NFL combine?

 

[BisexualMMA]

I do. Have you ever heard of the NFL combine?

NFL Combine doesn't exist. It's a myth like UFC backroom bonuses.

 

[AndrewGolota48]

Not true , if you have height nba will take a flyer on you in attempt to develop your skills. I'm talking center height. There are raw skill guys drafted every year on potential that usually sit in d league

OK but who has ever walked into the NBA like that with little to no basketball experience and become a star player like has been done in the the NFL? You seem to be taking about giant 7+ footers who played basketball but weren't good enough for the NBA, but are kept around based on potential.

 

[muaythaibeast]

There's no such thing as an A level athlete, but for what its worth Brocks skills translate better to MMA than any of the other NFL guys. The guy didn't win in MMA solely on physical advantages, he won on a ridiculous wrestling acumen. If he was the same monster athlete but he hadn't wrestled, he'd just be another CM Punk

 

[AndrewGolota48]

There's no such thing as an A level athlete, but for what its worth Brocks skills translate better to MMA than any of the other NFL guys. The guy didn't win in MMA solely on physical advantages, he won on a ridiculous wrestling acumen. If he was the same monster athlete but he hadn't wrestled, he'd just be another CM Punk

More like Tony Halme, the giant pro wrestler Couture beat in his debut.

 

[KeyboardFighter]

I wonder how many "A level" athletes there would be in handegg if usada was involved in nfl?

 

[D 1 Wrestler]

OK but who has ever walked into the NBA like that with little to no basketball experience and become a star player like has been done in the the NFL? You seem to be taking about giant 7+ footers who played basketball but weren't good enough for the NBA, but are kept around based on potential.

Most of those guys played football in hs

 

[ultramanhyata]

You can't play in the nfl

or the nba

just with great genetics and from a little training, that's mma

 

[aburre]

His NFL combine statistics are better than J.J Watt's. He's clearly a superior athlete than most "A Level" NFL guys.

Terrible ball player though.

JJ Watt doesn't have the best combine statistics of an NFL player though. A guy on his team. Jadeveon Clowney has better combine numbers than him

 

[mike sherry]

it's funny how people just forget about the motorcycle crash that really fucked him up before preseason started

 

[DrHouse]

This is why actual football (soccer to you 'Muricans) is superior as a sport to Handegg. There is not and has never been a man on this planet who could take 10 years away from Football and actually make a top flight teams practice squad. Let alone a guy like Stephen Neal, who didn't play for at least 4 years, then went on to win the highest prize in the sport.

 

[RiotWyatt]

Dunno. There are many manlets in the NFL too.

 

[mike sherry]

This is why actual football (soccer to you 'Muricans) is superior as a sport to Handegg. There is not and has never been a man on this planet who could take 10 years away from Football and actually make a top flight teams practice squad. Let alone a guy like Stephen Neal, who didn't play for at least 4 years, then went on to win the highest prize in the sport.

lol, there's not a single soccer player that could make a handegg team

 

[CerebralKnievel]

Well, high level physical coordination isn't something I've seen as prevalent in Lesnar's MMA career, so I wouldn't expect to witness it in the NFL

 

[TheNinja]

And this is why the Vikings were interested in him. He was an elite athlete. Unfortunately, athelticism is not this completely fungible value that makes a guy great at all sports. He wasn't good enough at football to play in the NFL. Had he played football instead of wrestled in college, he might have made an NFL team.

Agreed. If Brock had grown up playing football he most certainly would have played in the NFL in my opinion.