The NFL and its media partners are at once quick to judge, and then very quick to move on. We shouldn't let them do either.
One phrase I am sick of hearing after the two month path leading to Draft Day is "character concerns."
The narrative is set up so that a player is risky before he arrives, whether it be for something laughable or serious. It demands more media attention as a result, because you can only do so many posts on a guy's 40 time, and then he "overcomes" his "past" once drafted. This means that every NFL player is a success story by virtue of the fact that every single one was vetted intensely by the NFL scouting and drafting process and determined to be profitable.