Michael Crabree Might Want To Find Better Advice

by Skeller on Aug 10, 2009 8:00 AM EDT in Football

Niners' WR Michael Crabtree is still holding out of camp, looking for big, big money. Apparently, he's taking advice from his cousin David Wells, a former bail bondsman. Deadspin has the rundown on this Wells guy.

•Arrested for stealing boxing gloves from the Dallas Police Athletic League.

•Banned for life by USA Boxing over allegations of misuse of funds.

•Served as the omnipresent bodyguard shoving reporters out of the way for Michael Irvin after his arrest for possession.

•Indicted for serving as a private investigator with a license that had lapsed four years earlier, but exonerated after a dubious receipt appeared showing he had renewed it.

•Let off the hook for $50,000 when one of his clients skipped town, after a dubious document appeared showing he had warned the county.

•Started a security company with a court bailiff, which is illegal due to conflict-of-interest rules.

So basically, this guy hasn't shown great judgement. Now here we have Crabtree who's taking this guy's advice to hold out. Great.

This holdout could on for a while, so fantasy-wise Crabtree's value is drying up. Rookie WRs are almost always a bad fantasy bet, rookie WRs who miss camp are even less valuable. Crabtree should be moving down your draft list when you hear things like this. He's moving down mine.

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I heard on ESPN last night that he claimed he may enter the draft again next year if he doesn’t get the money he wants this year.Wow.

by Horatio on Aug 10, 2009 3:56 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

How would that help?

Wouldn’t the combination of a year-long layoff and the confirmation that he’s a first-class pain in the ass discourage any team from taking him? I don’t see how he would go higher than 10th in the 2010 draft.

Crazy.

by Skeller on Aug 11, 2009 1:33 AM EDT reply actions

That's the best part about this

If he was to actually hold out, he might fall down into the latter half of the first round or later. So not only is he losing money on the rookie contract, he is also losing the opportunity cost of a year not playing football.

Maybe using his dumas as an example would show other players not to act like idiots and maybe start surrounding yourself with intelligent people instead of the normal criminals you run with.

by namshite on Aug 14, 2009 12:28 AM EDT up reply actions

I heard on ESPN last night that
he claimed he may enter the draft
again next year if he doesn’t get
the money he wants this year.Wow.
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by biswas on Aug 12, 2009 4:51 PM EDT reply actions