Thursday, May 2, 2013

1.12 Cleveland Steamers - RB Christine Michael
(originally drafted by Pittsburgh)

In the real world: Stuck with this name (pronounced chris-tin) by his mother, he decided to keep it after hearing Johnny Cash's story of a boy named Sue, but he should have changed it anyway. Long story short, he has great talent but also has durability issues (broken right leg in 2010 and a torn left ACL in 2011). The Seattle Seahawks still took him in Round 2 despite those injuries (not to mention that they also have Robert Turbin).
In the TUFF world: When Pittsburgh made this pick, it had to have stung for the Cleveland Steamers, who were hoping to get Michael at 1.15 to handcuff to Marshawn "Beast Mode" Lynch. Pittsburgh took him at 1.12 because they didn't exactly have a lot of depth at RB themselves--they have D-Mac and CJ2K, but not much else. Cleveland traded the 1.15 and its second-round picks in 2014 and 2015 to the BIG PAPAS for Michael, getting insurance for their #1 RB as they set out to once again compete in TUFF's most competitive division.

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