a post with the subtitle: "The similarities between Michael Sam and Shane Ray - former teammates and defensive ends at Missouri - are striking. Distractions? Ray has a drug charge and Sam is gay. Ray was a first-round pick while Sam went in the last round. 1 + 1 = 2."

the post that says that they "performed nearly identically." or "Yet the wide discrepancy between the draft positions of these two men does not reflect their minuscule differences in size, strength, speed and college production."

you're right. it's not saying they're really similar quality draft prospects at all. nowhere does it say that.

the post thinks its clever because it saw some numbers were similar, but either the author of it is mathematically illiterate, knows nothing about football/drafts, or both. i think it's both. it's a shame, because this only hurts the argument--it's far too easy for someone who is homophobic and knows football (or stats) to dismiss the claims in that post because he makes apples to oranges comparisons and uses percentages to make differences that are meaningful (it's only a 10% difference! that doesn't matter--if 10% is the difference between a tackle and a missed tackle, 10% is enough).

the similarities aren't striking. They were CLEARLY at different levels as pro prospects based purely on how they performed in college and how they performed at the combine and pro days.

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