he'll do just fine. Performance and ability will speak the loudest. If his "draft stock" really does drop, some team will get themselves a great player at a lower draft position.
When he is successful (and I believe he will be) the interesting thing to see will be how many players will feel its safe to come out. You know that, just statistically speaking, there currently should be one or more gay athletes in the NFL. Mr. Sam's courage and honesty should make a difference. I am a firm believer that all forms of prejudice are most susceptible to personal experience. The more diverse your circle of "normal" contacts become, the more prejudice of any nature tends to fade away-except for the most hard core of the hard core-who will eventually find themselves isolated in their bigotry.
We need to add a soap box smilie here-for some reason I woke up feeling self righteous this morning.
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