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quote:West Virginia defensive end Bruce Irvin (pictured) led the way with a scintillating 40 that NFL Network timed at 4.43. That’s a time usually reserved for wide receivers.
Irvin, an undersized defensive end at 245 pounds, immediately caught the eye of all 3-4 teams looking for a pass rusher at outside linebacker.
Also defining themselves as prospects to play outside linebacker in a 3-4 defense are Clemson’s Andre Branch (4.62), South Carolina’s Melvin Ingram (4.66), Virginia’s Cam Johnson (4.75) and Arkansas’ Jake Bequette (4.78). The cutoff time for an outside linebacker is widely considered to be 4.8. Marshall defensive end Vinny Curry, an undersized player thought to project to outside linebacker, ran a 4.85.
quote:Originally posted by ChilliJon:
He's putting up some great numbers at the combine.
But can he play football?
Poe
Does anyone see anything that screams 1st rounder here? Yes, it's one game film. But that is Arkansas State. Should a guy that's heading toward mid 1st round consideration be moved around the line as much as Poe is in this clip? And shouldn't he have better numbers considering Memphis plays a schedule full of teams like Austin Peay, Tulane, and Middle Tennesee State? Sorry, but I want to see more than 8 total tackles for loss for the year against that schedule.
Like any guy in the past that put up solid numbers at the combine. It's going to come down to where he goes and who coaches him.
quote:Originally posted by TD: It's his off the field issues that scare teams.
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Scout on Dontari Poe: Watch him play, he didn’t do anything
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 1, 2012, 7:38 AM EDT
The excitement from Dontari Poe’s phenomenal Scouting Combine performance is starting to fade in the eyes of many league observers, who are turning their attention back to Poe’s tape — and not liking what they’re seeing.
Poe, the Memphis defensive tackle who took the Combine by storm by running a 4.87-second 40-yard dash at 346 pounds and bench-pressing 225 pounds 44 times, does not impress many of those who have watched him play.
“He’ll be overdrafted,” one personnel man told the Times of Trenton. “He did all of that at the Combine, so some team will take him way higher than he should go. I mean watch him play, just watch. He didn’t do anything. And he wasn’t playing at a very high level, either. All I know is he had one sack last year and it came against Austin Peay. You probably didn’t even know Austin Peay had a football team.”
When Poe announced in December that he was entering the NFL draft, he said he’d been told he projected as a second-rounder who could move into the first round with a good Combine. Poe didn’t have a good Combine — he had a great Combine — and he started being discussed as a Top 5 pick.
So those who watched him bench press and run 40 yards in a straight line are more impressed than those who watched him play football. That’s not a good sign.
quote:Originally posted by Point Brewmaster:
James Lee part II?
quote:Originally posted by CUPackFan:
Not to get off topic in this thread, but I've been reading that Andre Branch would be a good fit for the Packers in round 1. Anyone have the story on him and how he'd fit in as a 3-4 OLB in Green Bay.
