GT in the NBA Summer League 2023

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Techster said:
He played 4 seasons in the NFL. He's the only GT QB in my lifetime to ever make an NFL roster as a QB and play for multiple seasons.

Justin Thomas played in the NFL as a slot receiver.
Josh Nesbitt played wildcat QB in the preseason before moving to safety during the regular season.
Shawn Jones was moved to DB.
Reggie Ball made the Detroit Lions as a WR.

Those are the only GT QBs that even played in the NFL from my memory. Hamilton is still the only GT QB since 1990 to make an NFL roster at QB.
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Played for 4 seasons? He took one snap in four years.

Look, Joe is one of the greatest football players in our history, but he was a marginal pro player.
 
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Root4GT said:
Very different sport. He was a great college player for sure. Guys like that exist in college basketball as well. Take Gonzaga’s Timmie. Great college player but not likely not an NBA contributor. Still teams need NBA level talent or guys like timmie who were College players of the year. Moses was a similar player. If you have 5 guys like that great. One like that and your team will be decent but nothing special.
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Ok. How about James Forest?
 

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Root4GT said:
Very good college player. Played with Best, Mackey, Giger, and Jon Berry. That was a very talented team. 3 first round NBA picks and one 2nd round pick. Forrest was the one guy not drafted off that team.
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He had a bad injury
 

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From Hollinger's article:

The first weekend of NBA Summer League brought us perhaps the most entertaining matchup of the entire event, as top pick Victor Wembanyama went shot for shot with … Michael Devoe?

It wasn’t supposed to be this way, of course. Devoe was only playing so much because Scoot Henderson, the third pick who was scheduled to be Wembanyama’s foil in this sold-out affair, suffered a shoulder injury in the opener that knocked him out for the rest of summer league.

In came Devoe, an undrafted 23-year-old southpaw from Georgia Tech, fresh off a season in which he averaged 6.7 points per game with a 9.8 PER for the Clippers’ G League team in Ontario. So low on the totem pole was he that he was a DNP-coach’s decision in the Blazers’ summer-league opener.

Nonetheless, he proceeded to steal some of Wembanyama’s thunder by scoring a game-high 29 points in Portland’s 85-80 win and kept it up the rest of summer league. Over four games, he averaged 18.8 points on 53.2 percent shooting, made 11 of his 17 3-pointers and finished with a 27.4 PER — one of the best marks of any guard at summer league.

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These are the non-roster players whom the die-hards will be talking about over the next few weeks and months.
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