Written Option: Reflect on one moment in your player’s career (childhood, college, DSFL, or NSFL) where they faced an important turning point - perhaps a season-ending injury, unexpected trade, position switch, or a difficult decision. How did your player’s reaction change the way that their career has unfolded? What ramifications has their choice or circumstance had on their future or on the league?
June 6th, 2019. Or whatever year it was in sim. Lavelle Jr. releases his god tier draft conditions to the leagues media (here). With this Jr changed his entire career arc from the very get go. After a few games with Kansas City in S14 on waivers and an entire season with the awful Norfolk Seawolves in S15, Lavelle entered the S15 offseason full of hope, well not really.
He had prior to that , released his draft conditions which would dictate where he would go and as a result his draft stock dropped. Not that it really mattered at all because as we enter the tail end of S23, It's as clear as day that Lavelle was the strongest prospect out of the S16 Draft in terms of pretty much everything. After him it's definetly Torenson or Laszlo and way way way way down the line somewhere towards the bottom it's Faux.
This turning point changed everything, originally slated to go first overall to the Chicago Butchers, this did not happen. Chicago opted to skip Lavelle over what was first dressed up as concerns that Lavelle being the KR1/PR1 would somehow affect win shares and percentages (which everybody and their mother knew at the time, didn't) when in reality it was because the GM wanted to return kicks, something he couldn't nut up to at the time and instead had to weasle into a different excuse. Lavelle fell to 2nd.
Lavelle fell past 2nd actually, Chicago skipped him again for the afore mentioned bust that was Blake Faux.
Colorado had indicated that they would draft Lavelle if he fell to them at third overall but he was lied to by their GM at the time. They opted to choose Laszlo, a WR who would spent most of his career with them before feeling forced out and being drafted via expansion and then sent to the Yellowknife Wraiths as a OL convert from WR.
Lavelle would then be drafted fourth overall to the Austin Copperheads, in his 5th season he would win his first Ultimus, years before any other player in the top 10 not on the Austin squad. I'd say it all worked out pretty well for Lavelle as even as he enters regression years, he's on pace to still break returning records as well as place top 10 in career pass deflections.
June 6th, 2019. Or whatever year it was in sim. Lavelle Jr. releases his god tier draft conditions to the leagues media (here). With this Jr changed his entire career arc from the very get go. After a few games with Kansas City in S14 on waivers and an entire season with the awful Norfolk Seawolves in S15, Lavelle entered the S15 offseason full of hope, well not really.
He had prior to that , released his draft conditions which would dictate where he would go and as a result his draft stock dropped. Not that it really mattered at all because as we enter the tail end of S23, It's as clear as day that Lavelle was the strongest prospect out of the S16 Draft in terms of pretty much everything. After him it's definetly Torenson or Laszlo and way way way way down the line somewhere towards the bottom it's Faux.
This turning point changed everything, originally slated to go first overall to the Chicago Butchers, this did not happen. Chicago opted to skip Lavelle over what was first dressed up as concerns that Lavelle being the KR1/PR1 would somehow affect win shares and percentages (which everybody and their mother knew at the time, didn't) when in reality it was because the GM wanted to return kicks, something he couldn't nut up to at the time and instead had to weasle into a different excuse. Lavelle fell to 2nd.
Lavelle fell past 2nd actually, Chicago skipped him again for the afore mentioned bust that was Blake Faux.
Colorado had indicated that they would draft Lavelle if he fell to them at third overall but he was lied to by their GM at the time. They opted to choose Laszlo, a WR who would spent most of his career with them before feeling forced out and being drafted via expansion and then sent to the Yellowknife Wraiths as a OL convert from WR.
Lavelle would then be drafted fourth overall to the Austin Copperheads, in his 5th season he would win his first Ultimus, years before any other player in the top 10 not on the Austin squad. I'd say it all worked out pretty well for Lavelle as even as he enters regression years, he's on pace to still break returning records as well as place top 10 in career pass deflections.
