The NFL Combine is officially here.
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“I felt like I helped impact our team a lot and we had two successful seasons when I played there and I had a lot to do with that”, he added.
The 2016 NFL Scouting Combine arrived quickly on the heels of Super Bowl 50, after which the Broncos and Panthers joined the NFL draft preparation party.
Coleman’s tape in 2015 didn’t go unrecognized. That performance put a relatively unknown Johnson on the map and elevated him to a first round selection.
For those that stand out most, recent collegians will become millionaires.
With the talented-yet-troubled Josh Gordon as the sole exception, most of Baylor’s top receivers have turned out to be products of their system.
And since any mention of the 40 at the combine seems incomplete without video of a player doing the 40, here’s Tom Brady running perhaps the most awkward 40 of all time, and proving that the 40 tells us nothing when it comes to future success as a quarterback. “And if it is, great, we’ll continue to do it, because historical comparison is really important to the evaluation process”. While they’re not sporting Calvin Klein or Fruit of the Loom boxer briefs, the Under Armour gear that they wear isn’t much more than their skivvies.
LB Scooby Wright III, Arizona: The truth is, Scooby probably isn’t the kind of player that’s going to wow you with his measurements at the combine, but there was no way I was leaving him off this list. Look for Notre Dame offensive tackle Ronnie Stanley and Alabama linebacker Reggie Ragland and defensive tackle A’Shawn Robinson to catch the Bears’ eyes. The Draft is when you open your boxes of shiny new players with all the promise in the world, but the Combine is like looking at Amazon or doing some catalog searching or window shopping to see what we can ask from Santa this year. Among the top quarterbacks to skip combine passing drills in the last two years include Johnny Manziel, Teddy Bridgewater and Derek Carr. Over the past four years for the Wildcats, Whitehair started at three different spots up front.
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Vertical jump: Chris Conley, WR, Georgia (2015) – Conley tied the record previously held by Donald Washington with a 45-inch leap at last year’s combine. Each position contains players of interest to the Bucs, and here are five players they may be focusing on a bit more than others. It’s the beginning of a transition from student-athlete to member of the National Football League community. Miller’s success in his sole season as a receiver came thanks to creativity from Urban Meyer and the Ohio State coaching staff. But you can’t coach physical talent and Miller’s got a chance to display his huge talent at the combine, earning him a more complete draft grade.
