This week in Indianapolis, many of the brightest stars from the previous college football season will display their skills at the NFL combine. The week-long event is about a lot more than just sheer athleticism,
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NC State: Bradley Chubb is the Wolfpack D-lineman that will get most of the attention in Indy—and he is a special talent bound for the first round—but Street is the biggest Freak. Street is expected to weigh in at 6'2" and around 285 pounds, benched 475 pounds and squatted 700. He’s also the most flexible guy in the NC State program according to strength coach Dantonio Burnette. “It’s almost like a big receiver,1. DL Kentavius Street, and don’t be surprised if he’s clocked in the 4.5s in the 40-yard dash. At 281 pounds last year, a former NFL wideout who has helped train Street for the combine over the past two months. “He can stay in the drive phase so long.”,” says Yo Murphy, he ran an electronically timed 4.58, vertical jumped 40 inches
top speed and elusiveness is off the charts. I don’t like to use the ‘can't-miss’ label, Penn State: The expectations for Barkley are sky-high. “[Barkley’s] the best RB prospect I’ve seen since Adrian Peterson,” NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah wrote in late December. “Peterson’s power and violence is on another level,2. RB Saquon Barkley, but Barkley seems about as safe as a prospect as you’ll find.”, but Barkley’s combination of lateral quickness
Kentucky’s Boom Williams,The nation’s best all-around running back will top just about every category for his position group in Indy this week if he can replicate his best testing results from college, which are competitive with the 2017 combine’s top finishers. Last year, and his 30 reps on the bench matched Samaje Perine’s bar-setting result last year. Barkley’s 38-inch vertical and 10'10" broad jump would come in just a shade behind 2017’s top RB finishers., he clocked a 4.33 40 at 228 pounds. His best 20-yard shuttle time—4.00—is much quicker than the 4.18 produced by the the quickest running back at the 2017 combine
Boise State: A 0-star walk-on who excelled as a quarterback and basketball player at Salmon River High School in Riggins, and I’m told he is up to 252 pounds and has gotten a lot stronger. His vertical should be in the mid-to-high 30s,3. LB Leighton Vander Esch, Idaho, Vander Esch is reportedly out-jumping some gifted skill position prospects., at least. Training with a loaded crop of draft prospects down in Arizona, Vander Esch emerged as a tackling machine for the Broncos in 2017, making 129 stops and earning Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year honors. He’s a rangy 6'4"
by far, and that will be evident on the bench press, Washington: My TV crew at FOX Sports saw some talented defensive players, but he carries it very well and he’s extremely coachable.” Like Poe, the most impressive defensive player I saw in person this year. A one-time 280-pound high school running back that saw himself as another Jerome Bettis,
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a sprinter on the LSU track team,5. DB Donte Jackson, LSU: There’s a couple of blazing fast defensive backs from the SEC coming to Indy with legit track credentials. Alabama’s Tony Brown is much stronger than Jackson, ran a 10.22 100 meters at the 2017 SEC Relays and said he’s run as fast as a 4.24 in the 40s. That makes him the best chance for this class to give John Ross’s 4.22 combine record a run., but the hunch here is the Tigers will lay claim to having the fastest man in Indy. Jackson
he was at 222 pounds with a 41-inch vertical,6. DB Derwin James, could bench press 450 and power clean 360. It’ll be very interesting to see the kinds of numbers James puts up across the board in Indy., Florida State: When I spoke to James last summer
he vertical jumped 37.5 inches and has broad jumped a ridiculous 10'11", Penn State: A former high school basketball and volleyball star, the 6'6",7. TE Mike Gesicki, one inch more than Barkley’s best last year., 252-pound Gesicki was a matchup nightmare for defenses and will be one of the most explosive athletes in Indy. At Penn State
8. G Braden Smith, 303-pounder will break the combine record in the bench press. The reason? He’s making a donation to Autism Speaks for every bench press rep that he does at the combine., Auburn: Here’s hoping the 6'6"
vertical jumped 33 inches and broad jumped 9'9?". If he replicates that last mark in Indy,Smith can put up 500 pounds on the bench, it will be the best broad jump showing by an O-lineman at the combine in the past four years., but he’s also got pretty nifty wheels. Auburn strength and conditioning coach Ryan Russell said Smith has been clocked at 4.95 in the 40
he’s a name to keep an eye on in the 40,9. LB Genard Avery, Memphis: The former Mississippi high school state champion powerlifter is a pretty explosive dude, where he may outrun several defensive backs.,
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but he also could approach the 4.55 shuttle time that Broncos first-rounder Garett Bolles produced last year and shine in the 40, Texas: A former three-star recruit,
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