Pro Football Weekly had some news yesterday as it relates to potential NFL first-round draft picks Aqib Talib, Mario Manningham, and sweet, sweet cheeba.

Manningham went through the combine and denied to everyone that he ever used marijuana, and then later sent a letter out to teams apologizing for "not being straightforward" with them (that's code for fibbing).

Talib, on the other hand, was honest about his failed marijuana tests in college, all three of them, and even, according to PFW, "dismissed the first positive test because he said he had told Kansas head coach Mark Mangino that he was going to test positive."

I love the idea that you can get away with something, as long as you tell the authorities that you're going to do it first. "Yeah, I was arrested for murdering a police horse, but it's no big deal because I told the cop I was going to do it first."

The effect of the buddha on their draft status? It varies. From the PFW article:

The way we hear it, Manningham, despite handling the situation poorly at the Combine with little guidance, is viewed as less of a character risk than Talib, who has been removed from more draft boards than Manningham, based on conversations PFW has had with nine NFL teams.

“There is no way I’d touch (Talib),” one team told PFW. “He’s gotten into a lot of trouble, and he still does not get it.”

“He’s got a laundry list of issues,” another team executive said of Talib's off-the-field behavior. “He’s not a one-time offender. Give a guy like him money, and it never gets better. It only gets worse.”

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