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As drills start, some ponder tweaks to National Football League combine

After opening eyes on Thursday with 25 bench reps at the NFL Combine, which lead halfbacks, Marshall lit up the Internet from Indianapolis with a lightning-quick 40-yard dash.

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With players already arriving at the NFL Combine, it won’t be long until we get to see what we’ve all been waiting for: the on-field workouts. If a team has a good scouting department they can find players that don’t make it to the combine.

Last year around this time of the year, players like safety Byron Jones from UCONN made a name for himself after place ridiculous numbers in all aspects of the physical tests.

Clemson standout Shaq Lawson let everybody in Indianapolis know that he’s still working on his craft as a pass-rusher, even though he already has a go-to move.

Steve Muench played four years of Division I-AA football before joining Scouts Inc.in 2002.

Greetings, Raider fans! The draft season for a football fan is a lot like Christmas.

On Friday, the backs in the 2016 draft class got their chance at the 40.

Henry was a top performer in both the vertical leap (37 inches) and broad jump (10-foot, 10-inches) despite being one of the biggest running backs at the combine at 6-foot-3, 247 pounds. And he says he was asked: “if I had to murder someone: Would I use a gun or a knife?”

This will be the spot that we all go to talk about anything combine related for the next few days. “It depends on what the team needs, and I’m just really trying to get myself into the best position to be drafted as high as I can”. “I’m actually just waiting on the doctor’s clearance”. See if you stop and think about it, you can only be drafted by one team. “I don’t think they were serious about that, though, but I’ve heard it all pretty much in the back seven”. Those players’ position drills will also begin. Missouri guard Connor McGovern finished second (33) while Colorado’s Stephane Nembot (32) took the bronze.

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He acknowledged that head coach Urban Meyer and wide receivers coach Zach Smith advised him to stay at Ohio State.

NFL Combine Running Backs Measurements		Posted by	peterclarke