02-24-2010, 04:34 PM
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The Mad Genius
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Re: NFL Scouting Combine 2010
From ESPN's Adam Schefter, his 'Five memorable combine performances' (ESPN Insider member blog, I can't provide link):
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Five memorable combine performances
February, 24, 2010
Starting Wednesday, some of college football's top prospects will begin working out to impress NFL teams and improve their draft stock at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis. Some players' stock will soar. Others will sink. But inevitably, there will be some memorable performances that leave teams talking even after the 2010 NFL draft. Here's a look back at five of the most memorable performances in combine history:
• Florida State Seminoles CB Deion Sanders (1989): Back in 1989, the scouting combine wasn't the event it is today. Reporters and cameras were not allowed in to the workouts to document them. So when Deion ran a sub-4.2 40-yard dash -- believed to be the fastest time ever run at the combine -- NFL personnel men stood and drooled. Those who saw it still remember it. Even before he entered the NFL, Sanders left his mark.
• Ohio State Buckeyes RB Maurice Clarett (2005): After being denied entry to the NFL in 2004, Clarett arrived at the combine in 2005 intent upon proving who he was. He did, but not in the way he wanted. Clarett ran in some of the 40-yard dashes at the RCA Dome, and then opted to put on his sweatshirt and not finish the running drills. NFL scouts were aghast that Clarett would quit; what he did is exactly what coaches teach their players never to do -- and then Clarett went out again and did it in the NFL.
• Boston College Eagles LB Mike Mamula (1995): Mamula might have defined "workout warrior," the player who "looks like Tarzan and plays like Jane." Mamula ran a 4.62 40-yard dash, put up 26 reps on the 225-pound bench press and saw himself skyrocket to the No. 7 overall pick of the Philadelphia Eagles. Mamula played six seasons, registering 209 tackles and 31.5 sacks -- but he never was better than he was in Indianapolis in 1995.
• East Carolina Pirates RB Chris Johnson (2008): Many projected Johnson as a second- or third-round pick. Then he arrived in Indianapolis and ran a 4.24 40-yard dash (video of it here), which tied the mark that Eastern Kentucky wide receiver Rondel Melendez set in 1999, the first year the combine used electronic timers. Johnson shot up the draft board as fast as he ran, and wound up becoming the Tennessee Titans' first-round pick.
• Purdue Boilermakers CB Rod Woodson (1987): Before there was Deion Sanders, there was Rod Woodson. Difference was, Woodson was 25-30 pounds heavier -- and nearly as fast. Woodson ran a 4.29 40-yard dash. At 210 pounds. And Woodson was as old-school then as he is today -- and a lock to become one of the great cornerbacks in NFL history. |
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