If DeShone Kizer wants to take his talents north of the border, the Toronto Argonauts will be ready to talk. The Argos have claimed the former second-round pick’s negotiating rights, according to Justin Dunk of 3DownNation.com. 
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So far, Kizer’s pro career hasn’t gone according to plan. The Notre Dame product started 15 games for the Browns as a rookie and he went 0-15 on one of the league’s worst teams in league history. One year later, he was shipped to the Packers where he sat behind Aaron Rodgers and appeared in three games. All in all, Kizer has completed 53% of his passes in the NFL for 3,081 yards, eleven touchdowns, and 24 interceptions.
Kizer didn’t make the Packers cut, which led him to the Raiders. He didn’t throw a pass in 2019 and the Raiders recently dropped him during their virtual OTA period. At this point, a comeback attempt in the CFL might be his best bet.
Just a few years ago, Kizer showed potential with the Fightin’ Irish. There, he threw for 47 touchdowns against 19 interceptions over the course of two seasons, though concerns about his field vision and decision making pushed him out of the first round. In the NFL, Kizer didn’t do much to silence the critics.
11 td to 21 Picks that’ll get u out of the league
Someone better tell Nathan Peterman that
Seriously.
You mean Nathan “White Privilege” Peterman
I always found it extremely interesting that if you have a great talent that can make a company millions of dollars you can negotiate with any company and have them compete against each other to get great fiscal security.
unless you are an athlete. then huge companies can claim exclusive negotiation rights and determine numerous extranalities that keep their cost artificially low.
As a pro athlete you go in knowing that there are limited places to sell your services. One, maybe two leagues. If there were as many leagues as insurance companies or real estate companies then your career options would be greater but maybe not the value you could acquire for your services. If you were a top astrophysics scientist you would be in the same situation as an athlete. You would be able to sell your services to NASA or maybe one other company that actually exists in that field.
No, it is not the same as NASA, you can work for dozens of aerospace companies. The way sports leagues work is anti-capitalist!
The point is that if you’re a highly skilled specialist, there are limited places to use those talents. You wouldn’t find a cryptology expert like Alan Turing seeking employment at Dollar General.
yes but you also wouldn’t be allowed to have an actual monopoly like sports leagues do.
the other flaw in your comparison is there is no collusion among aerospace companies to artificially set labor prices. like a cap. also their are no rules preventing an aerospace company to not allow employees based on arbitrary age restrictions like 3 years removed from high-school which protects veteran player along with artificially lower wages for fresh talent like draft caps.
They also make 50k to work out in the summer and 500k to practice.
Man how is this guy going to the CFL with his terrible play. He is hot garbage go work at Starbucks.
That’s what they would’ve told Warren Moon years ago ahead Starbucks been open at the time…Wonder how going north of the border worked out for that guy?
that anyone can poo poo the CFL when its essentially the only other game in town than the NFL on a yearly basis amazes me. it surprises me more players dont go there after some of the success stories they’ve had. for example, Winston could have actually showcased his talent there for perhaps even more instead of likely sitting on the bench for a year.
As a Browns fan, I think that making him the starter during his rookie year with that garbage roster tanked his development. There’s pretty much no way he could have possibly succeeded under those conditions.
It’s very likely that he just isn’t a good quarterback. But he was also destined to fail pretty much from the beginning.