Hey Swendle sorry to rain on your parade but there was a reason you got that guy for $1 you have missed. Average OD is fine, I just paid $400,000 for a guy with average OD. But he is brutally reduced in value by his awful JS. You could get a guy for about $10,000 with respectable JS. It will take you about 8-10 weeks of training to get there. But that isn't the killer. The slowest skill to train up in the entire game is JR and he has atrocious! To get that to respectable will take somewhere up to 18 weeks. Add them together and you will then have spent two seasons of training to get him to the standard of a guy you could pick up right now for minimal cost. He will be 20 and the standard of an 18 year old and ill never reach his superstar potential so he may as well be a starter or a hall of famer, it wont matter for him unless you keep training him until he is 25.
Sorry, but instead invest a little more get a great Aussie trainee for $100,000 and you will be much better in the long run. I am not allowed to name players on the forums but I think you would be better off with soeone else.