Too weird to me that Akiem Hicks is back in the state of Louisiana, now as a Saint. Regardless, welcome to the Saints Mr. Hicks.
When the Saints drafted him last night, I was like, wait...what? Is that the same.....ah yeah....it is!
Little more background from an excerpt is below and don't forget a coach at LSU was dismissed directly from the 'recruiting issue.' Hicks began his NFL odyssey in 2007 by enrolling at Sacramento City College. Following the 2008 season he was considered a top junior college recruit and chose to enrol at LSU over Oregon, Arizona and Tennessee. But Hicks never played for the Tigers, sitting out the 2009 season after getting caught up in a recruiting scandal involving a former assistant coach providing Hicks unauthorized transportation and free and discounted lodging. There were also violations regarding impermissible phone calls.
WOW... the NCAA is really protecting the integrity of the game there. The youth of America is threatened by too much phone time. And the guy was already over three hundred pounds...the coach had no business buying him a couple of Big Macs !!
We'll now get to see what we could have had in Hicks. Too bad he got caught up in the DJ McCarthy garbage.
looking at the Saint's official roster, check out how big the three new lineman we drafted are: http://www.neworleanssaints.com/team/roster.html 334 -- OG Andrew Tiller (6th Round, 2012) -- 5.50 forty at combine 324 -- DT Akiem Hicks (3rd Round, 2012) -- 5.23 forty at combine 323 -- OT Fenuki Tupou (5th Round, 2009) -- 5.40 forty at combine when he was 314 lbs 320 -- OG Marcel Jones (7th Round, 2012) -- 5.67 forty at combine 320 -- OT Zach Strief (7th Round, 2006) -- 5.38 forty at combine when he was 330 lbs 319 -- OT Pat McQuistan (7th Round, 2006) -- na -- 318 -- OG Jahri Evans (4th Round, 2006) -- 5.25 forty at combine when he was 316 lbs 317 -- DT Aubrayo Franklin (5th Round, 2003) -- na -- was 307 lbs at combine 315 -- OT Jermon Bushrod (4th Round, 2007) -- na 310 -- OG Ben Grubbs (1st Round, 2007) -- 5.18 forty at combine when he was 311 lbs 310 -- DT Swanson Miller (undrafted) -- na 310 -- OT Phil Trautwein (undrafted) -- na 307 -- DT Sed Ellis (1st Round, 2008) -- 5.26 forty at combine when he was 309 lbs 306 -- OG Brian de la Puente (undrafted) -- na 306 -- DT Brodrick Bunkley (1st Round, 2006) -- 5.01 forty at combine when he was 306 lbs 305 -- OG Eric Olson (6th Round, 2010) -- 5.25 forty at combine when he was 306 lbs 300 -- C/OG Matt Tennant (5th Round, 2010) -- 5.15 forty at combine when he was 300 lbs 297 -- OT Charles Brown (2nd Round, 2010) -- na 288 -- DT Tom Johnson (undrafted) 287 -- DL Cam Jordan (1st Round, 2011) -- 4.74 forty at combine when he was 287 282 -- DE Will Smith (1st Round, 2004) -- na -- 275 lbs at combine 280 -- DT Mitch King (undrafted) 278 -- DE Turk McBride (2nd Round, 2007)
