I'm not aware that he was ever considered that highly by any scouts. I don't recall hearing anything about him until he announced that he was gay. Top NFL draft prospects are getting media hype at least a year in advance and sometimes two or more years, as they start to appear on mock draft lists and as 'future projections.'
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould