Mel Kiper Jr. question’s UVA’s Kevin Ogletree’s decision to enter NFL Draft early

On a teleconference Wednesday, ESPN’s NFL draft analyst, Mel Kiper Jr., was asked about wide receiver Kevin Ogletree’s decision to pass up his senior season at U.Va.

Ogletree, who missed the 2007 season while recovering from knee surgery, caught 58 passes for 723 yards and five touchdowns in 2008.

“Ogletree has the ability. It surprised me, though,“ Kiper said. “My attitude has always been if you’re not a first-round pick, you should stay, unless you just feel like—whether you’re a secondor third-round pick—it’s just time to move on and you’re really not worried about where you’re going in the draft. If you don’t care where you go in the draft and you just want to move on with your career or whatever you want to do, then you come out.

“But if you really care where you’re going, you should be a first-round pick or you should stay. And I think in Ogletree’s case, he’s not a first-round pick. So, I think he should have stayed.“