NFL Draft Prospect Tyler Owens Says He Doesn’t Believe In Space, Other Planets

The best and brightest NFL prospects are in Indianapolis to show what they're made of on and off the field at the NFL Scouting Combine.

And it would appear that Texas Tech defensive back Tyler Owens is made of some interesting ideas about the universe… something it doesn't sound like he completely buys into.

A video is making the rounds of Owens proclaiming that he "doesn't believe in space." That'd be great if he meant he didn't believe in giving an opposing wideout room to move, but he was talking about outer space.

"Nah, I don't believe in space," Owens said, before adding that he believes we're "on our own."

"I don't think there's other planets or stuff like that, I don't know," he said.

Oooooookayyyyyy…

I guarantee you no one at the combine thought any prospect would deny the existence of outer space, but dammit, Tyler Owens is here to keep everyone on their toes.

So what led him to this conclusion that space doesn't exist — despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary in the form of everything from eclipses to tides to the fact that you can sometimes see other planets?

"I used to believe in the heliocentric thing," Owens said referring to the idea that Earth orbits the Sun. "But then I started seeing flat-Earth stuff and I was like, ‘Yo, this is kind of interesting,’ and they started bringing up valid points."

That sounds completely insane — because it is — but the last thing Owens said made me think a bit differently, and he actually tagged that wild hypothesis with something that NFL teams might kind of like.

"I don't know, it could be real; it couldn't. Know what I'm saying?" Owens said.

That's big. Owens is open to the existence of space, but he just needs a little more proof. He's also open to the idea of being wrong.

That's a good thing, and in fact, if I was drafting players, I'd like a dude who can admit he was wrong because it shows you're capable of learning.

Of course, I'd also look at 40-yard dash times as well as both vertical and broad jump numbers — and those would carry the most weight — but being able to admit you're wrong about space not existing would be a consideration.