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2/19/08

NFL Combine: Donnie Avery, Chris Johnson and Random Kid Should Wow The Scouts

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CriticalFanatic

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The NFL Scouting Combine kicks off tomorrow in Indianapolis, the annual event of scouts over-analyzing prospects running around in their underwear.

As a draft geek I enjoy watching the combine as much as anyone, but also acknowledge it's relative worthlessness. Wes Welker wasn't even invited because he was too slow and too small. Troy Williamson, on the other, wowed onlookers with his speed. So much so, they forgot to check whether he could run routes and actually catch the football. Then there's the always entertaining Wonderlic numbers ... more on that later.

A couple guys that have a very good chance of wowing the scouts with their speed are Donnie Avery and Chris Johnson of Houston and East Carolina respectively.

Avery is just a little fast.

As is Chris Johnson.

And then here's a random kid who can throw 150 yards, kick 100, and run through fences. Can't miss prospect ... clearly.

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2/19/08

Boski93

WUNDERLIC! WUNDERLIC! WUNDERLIC!

I actually like the Combine, it is just a fascinating process and seeing who get over and undervalued because of it. Yes, I have become more of a draft geek over the years. I am not totally there yet, but I am looking at houses in that neighborhood.

I would enjoy it more if I could watch it, but I live in an area where I am under the tyranny of Time Warner Cable. Before you ask, we can't get dish. We have Tivo with the lifetime subscription and with it being Tivo HD we just don't want to drop it. And since Direct and Dish want you to use their DVR their system will not work with a Tivo.

So I am stuck with Time Warner and their shenanigans. As you can see I about to rant, so I will stop, since this is about the Combine and the Draft.

Mmmmmmm NFL Combine aaaarrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhh.

2/19/08

Chachi_Azzhola

1	My favorite part of the combine is when an extremely low supposedly private Wunderlic score somehow gets leaked to the press. Always love to see what school is unmasked for having had a single digit scoring neanderthal around their academic program for 3 to 5 years...

2/19/08

Chachi_Azzhola

1	Yep, and just think: Rich Rodriguez will be bringing that academic excellence to Ann Arbor. The future Chris Henry and Adam "Pacman" Jones are enrolling into Michigan this fall.

2/19/08

kantwistaye

0	Chachi_Azzhola wrote: Yep, and just think: Rich Rodriguez will be bringing that academic excellence to Ann Arbor. The future Chris Henry and Adam "Pacman" Jones are enrolling into Michigan this fall. Not to rip on West Virginia too much, but Michigan actually has standards. Just sayin'.

2/19/08

Boski93

0	Very true, but is that still creepier than Mel Kiper's hair?

2/19/08

Chachi_Azzhola

1	kantwistaye wrote: Not to rip on West Virginia too much, but Michigan actually has standards. Just sayin'. Dunno. Maybe Not, according to ex-UM Wolverine quarterback Jim Harbaugh (now head coach at Stanford) anyway.

2/19/08

CriticalFanatic

1	Chachi_Azzhola wrote: Dunno. Maybe Not, according to ex-UM Wolverine quarterback Jim Harbaugh (now head coach at Stanford) anyway. They have high standards for their general student body, but their "general studies" program is 98% athletes and it's a complete joke. As big a joke as any other school so it's smoke and mirrors.

2/19/08

Chachi_Azzhola

CriticalFanatic wrote:

They have high standards for their general student body, but their "general studies" program is 98% athletes and it's a complete joke. As big a joke as any other school so it's smoke and mirrors.

Harbaugh thought he was too smart to be in general studies. I recall Robert Smith of Ohio State saying the same thing about OSU while he was there. Coaches wanted him to drop his pre-med major and get into African-American Studies program because he did not have time for pre-med as a football player at Ohio State. I Recently read an article on Yahoo sports where the Big 10 Commish was saying the SEC had better football teams because of one position: It seems that he thought those Defensive Tackles in the SEC were academically suspect by Big 10 standards. Of course the comment was viewed as semi-racist as all but 4 of the SEC's DT's were African-American students. (May have been a veiled semi-threat to former SEC Coach Ron Zook's outstanding recruiting classes too). I couldn't help but think of Harbaugh's and Smith's article as I read that pompous, self-serving drivel from the Commish.

2/20/08

Janse

0	Chris Johnson was timed at a 4.20 on one of his 40's. Insane.

2/20/08

Janse

0	From what I have seen, he would at the very least be an above average special teams player. There's always a roster spot for someone like that.

2/20/08

Janse

0	(Edited by Janse) I have only looked at mock drafts for who people think will end up being drafted with the Packers first pick. Where is Johnson projected?