In response to rumors that Wisconsin cornerback Jack Ikegwuono is telling teams that he’ll sit out the 2008 season and re-enter the draft if he’s not taken in one of the first two rounds, a source close to Ikegwuono tells us that he “definitely” will play in 2008 regardless of where he is drafted.

That’s likely a wise move, for various reasons we pointed out earlier today.  And for one more — as a league source has pointed out to us, if Ikegwuono is undrafted and signs as a free agent in 2008 or 2009, the team will have to fit his contract within the ever-confusing rookie salary cap, a device that likely will cause considerable fretting and sweating next year, which is expected to be the last capped year under the current CBA.

But then there’s the issue of Ikegwuono’s pending charges of residential burglary and criminal trespass.  (The trespass charge is a misdemeanor; the burglary charge is a felony.)  His March 2008 trial on the charges was continued.  Thus, with the charges still pending, the team that drafts Ikegwuono will pick up the corresponding points in Turd Watch II.