Monday begins the defensive players taking a starring role at the National Football League (NFL) combine. Projected first round pick defensive lineman Jadeveon Clowney ran a ridiculous 4.52 40-yard-dash today. Some talent evaluators had the time even quicker than that (4.8). Regardless of the exact time, it’s an outrageous thing.

That’s a 6’5” 266 pound man coming at you at a pace very few have seen in the game of football. His freaky nature has drawn comparisons to Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, and it’s not hard to see why.

Up until the start of the 2013 college season, Clowney was considered the no-doubt-about-it, number one pick in the upcoming 2014 NFL Draft. If he didn’t play another down of football for South Carolina University he’d be chosen number one. Freakish talent like this doesn’t come around that often, but when it does it’s something special.

So with the news that Clowney has lived up to the anticipated 40-time at the combine, his stock is still rising right?

That would be a gigantic no.

Many concerns about the so called “one-in-a-generation” player have risen since the beginning of the 2013 season. His stock is falling faster than “Blackberry” after the advent of smart-phones and football people are disturbed.

First was the obvious sign of his lackluster and half-hearted play during the South Carolina season. It was known by everyone that he didn’t want to be there. Because the NFL doesn’t allow anyone from entering the draft before a full three years after high school graduation, Clowney was forced to go back to school. He finished the season with only three sacks on the season which paled in comparison to his first two college seasons.

Then the speeding tickets for Jadeveon made headlines. Twice in December Clowney was dinged by the state, and this wasn’t your normal mill-of-the-run, need-to-get-to-work speeding ticket. He was clocked doing 84 and 110 miles per hour, both occurred in a 55 miles per hour limit, notes Pro Football Talk.

Ok so the kid had a tough year. It was obvious on the football field he was protecting his investment (his body) for the millions he had coming to him in April of 2014, despite the contradiction of going that fast in a car. Regardless, NFL execs still had him projected to be a top three or five pick in the draft. Again, that talent and athletic ability this kid possesses is off the charts.

Sunday at the NFL Combine, Clowney said this: "I want to be No.1 in the draft. I want to be the best. I want to be 1 of the greatest of all time,” according to Bleacher Report. It was a great thing to hear if you’re a team with a pick in the top five, but what followed was another contradiction by Clowney.

Despite turning heads with his 40 yard dash time, he wildly disappointed everybody on the bench press and cone drill. Clowney only put up 21 reps on the bench which was way below expectations. He also went through the cone drill as if it were a back-yard, family-fun-time after church game. To know how much raw physical talent this guy has, those two results were absolutely a result of him not caring.

Even more, is there are starting to be grumblings at the combine that he’s acting in such a “lackluster” way that he’s being depicted as having a poor work ethic and being a jerk. His college coach Steve Spurrier did nothing to help his cause either. In today’s world where college coaches always look to help their players, when Spurrier was asked about Clowney’s work ethic he responded as saying that “It’s only OK,” according to Jacksonville.com.

This is the most famous NFL Draft dilemma. The incredibly gifted player who has character concerns. If somebody wants to be the best who ever played, then professionalism is every bit as important as talent. Only deciding what events to only go “all-out” in is the complete opposite of professionalism, and is turning many NFL executives off.

Jadeveon Clowney is acting like he owns the world already, and he’s not even a millionaire yet. I don’t even want to think about this question, but I’ll ask it anyway: How will he act WHEN he is finally a millionaire in two months?

Attention all NFL executives: buyer-beware.