Jameis Winston and... Crab Legs

           Recently on ESPN's Draft Academy, Jameis Winston explained to Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh why he took crab legs from a Publix store in Florida. Apparently about a week before the event occurred, Winston and one of his friends went into Publix to pick up a cake for another friend's birthday. They met an employee while they were there who recognized Jameis and told him that he was covered any time he came in there. So when Jameis came back a week later the same guy gave him crab legs, but as he walked out another employee reported that the crab legs had not been paid for. This is how Jameis told the story to Jim Harbaugh, yet both Publix and Florida State's investigations into the incident yielded no such information.

         Normally a situation like this would not be worthy of news headlines, but we're talking about Jameis Winston- Heisman trophy winner, BCS champion, and potential first round pick in the NFL draft. No one questions his ability on the football field. It's his maturity level off the field that has NFL teams worried. Teams looking into drafting Winston want a franchise player that can be a leader of their team. They want to know if they can put their trust into Winston to do that. That's why a situation like stealing crab legs, as small as it may seem, really has a huge impact on Winston's future NFL career. The guy has got to grow up, and once he shows NFL scouts he has done so, he'll become the best prospect of the draft. Until then though, as good as he is at football, there will remain a question mark by his name as to whether or not he has really matured enough to be the face of an NFL franchise.

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