Leighton Vander Esch was a guest on Bleacher Report’s Stick to Football podcast yesterday (a podcast you can listen to HERE) and among some of the revelations was that the draft advisory board actually urged Vander Esch to stay in school. Of course, this admonition was received a week or so after LVE had already declared for the draft (and ostensibly hired an agent), so it came too little too late. Still, considering that Vander Esch is now WIDELY considered a first round “lock”, it’s a good thing the advisory board took their sweet time.
The (thankfully) impatient Vander Esch told Matt Miller and Conor Rogers that he feels the draft advisory board was “completely wrong” in their assessment and that they probably more often than not don’t want to be viewed as a body that urges kids to forgo the rest of their education willy nilly.