Will Muschamp wanted Derrick Henry to play MLB

He would 9f been a good baseball player maybe the best

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Derrick Henry would have probably been a HOF middle linebacker, too. 

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Exactly.

Would be another Patrick Willis.

This isn't the dig the retarded OP thinks it is.

I think just about everybody wanted him at LB

Outside of Florida list them.

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Bear Bryant wanted Bo Jackson to play linebacker.

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And told him he'd have to wait a couple years to hit the field as an RB. Even the greats whiff sometimes.

I think it says more about DH's athleticism than it does about WM's judgement

saban wanted brandon jacobs to play DE.

it happens. and how do you know WM or saban werent right? Henry made have ended up the best MLB or OLB the NFL has ever seen. You dont know.

Everybody except San Diego wanted Marshall Faulk to play DB too.

You don't win the Heisman at LB. Being a modern Heisman winner is worth about $500k to a million a year.

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You don't win the Heisman at LB. Being a modern Heisman winner is worth about $500k to a million a year.

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$500k to a million a year in terms of what? In terms of NIL money now? Well, that wasn't around in 2012 when Derrick Henry signed an LOI. However, when Derrick Henry was in college, it was typically more lucrative in the NFL to be an elite MLB than an elite RB. The NFL doesn't pay a premium because you won a Heisman trophy (for example, Derrick Henry).

As to Muschamp's preference, I think Henry could have been a HOF linebacker as well. I guess we'll never know, but it wasn't a terrible opinion to have based on his size and athleticism coming out of high school.