Sean Weatherspoon has a big mouth?

Ian Rapport of the Boston Herald points out that Missouri LB Sean Weatherspoon is a top prospect who is supposed to go in the first round of this year’s NFL draft. But as Nolan Nawrocki of Pro Football Weekly tells Rapport, it could be buyer beware with Weatherspoon.

“[H]e never shuts his mouth,” Nawrocki says. “It’s a big concern to a lot of teams that have stepped in and even removed him from their draft boards. That’s how strongly they feel he could negatively impact the locker room.

“The big concern is just how he’s a little bit like [Chad] Ochocinco in Cincinnati,” Nawrocki told Rapoport. “It’s going to become a big distraction, and it’s going to get in the way, it’s going to be difficult to coach. He’s never played a snap in the NFL and hasn’t done a thing in the National Football League, and he’s already worrying about the things that really shouldn’t matter for a guy at that stage in his career. He’s worrying about his image and his post-career aspirations. That’s a concern. You see guys late in their career like Jason Taylor getting involved in Dancing With The Stars, and there were coaches that didn’t like that. For some of the same reasons, I think it’s an issue with Sean. He’s worrying about things he shouldn’t be worrying about. He’s trying to be something that he may not be. From that respect, there are concerns.”