Eli Apple may fall in draft due to kitchen skills?

Eli Apple is one of the more promising cornerbacks in the 2016 NFL Draft, but he may have an off field flag that keeps teams away.

Here at B&T we don’t often highlight random things about players, but this one about 2016 NFL draft prospect Eli Apple was just too good to pass up.

According to Dan Hanzus at NFL.com, a scout has mentioned that Apple’s inability to cook may make teams wary. The Milwaukee Sentinel first brought it up as a red flag.

This is one of those things that goes up quickly near draft day that is almost too outrageous to believe it even matters. When Apple is selected and signed by a team (which will certainly happen) it won’t much matter if he can cook, especially after he starts getting the checks in the mail.

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Does something like this really point toward poor life skills? Or does it point more toward a skill he simply hasn’t taken the time to develop?

Whatever the case may be, Apple isn’t on teams’ radars because of his (lack of) cooking skills. He’s on their radars because he can make plays on the ball and develop into one of the better cornerbacks in the NFL. Those are the reasons the Jacksonville Jaguars expressed interest and visited with him and those are the reasons that will make him a selection in the first couple days of the draft.

Seriously, some of these smoke screens are getting completely ridiculous and this is one of the worst ones I’ve seen in a while. There are much better reasons to not pick a prospect. Cooking skills simply don’t matter much.

But really, Eli Apple should learn to cook more than ramen. He responded to the claim by saying he can cook. To which, Hanzus writes:

"Perhaps this is naive, but it’s hard to believe the scout pulled the cooking tidbit completely out of thin air. There must be somebody out there so disturbed by Apple’s work in the kitchen that he/she sent it up the flagpole and to the masses. Speak up rabble-rouser. Put a name to your scurrilous claims!"

Regardless, if he’s a Jaguar at the end of the weekend, we should all send him a cookbook.