Pro Day Schedule

[wulfy]

Remaining Pro Days & some random thoughts:

March 20
Iowa (Sam LaPorta, Van Ness & Campbell)
South Alabama
Syracuse ( OT Matthew Bergeron - who I like a lot in the Second)
Virginia Tech

March 21
Auburn
Iowa State (Will McDonald)
Liberty
Princeton
Rutgers
Troy
USC (Tuli, Jordan Addison)

March 22
Nebraska
Ohio State (Assume Poles and 'flus will both go to this one - Johnson, Jones, JS-N, Wypler, Harrison)
SMU (Rice - but not sure WR is high on our list anymore)
Stanford
UAB
Virginia

March 23
Alabama (they have two Pro Days - one April 6 also)
California
Cincinnati
Houston (Tank Dell)
Utah (Dalton Kincaid & CB Clark Phillips)
Wisconsin (I like both Benton and Tippman in the mid-rounds. Herbig will be a really good 3-4 backer)

March 24
Boston College (Zay Flowers)
BYU (R2/3 OT Blake Freeland)
Kentucky
Notre Dame (Mayer, Foskey, Patterson and Joseph are all probably ones to watch for the Bear)
Old Dominion
Penn State (Joey Porter Jr is a sneaky R1/9 pick)
San Jose State

March 27
Arizona State
Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Ball State
Baylor
Boise State
Duke
Miami
North Carolina
Southern Miss
West Virginia

March 28
East Carolina
Louisville
Mississippi State
N.C. State
Texas A&M
Tulsa
Vanderbilt
Washington State

March 29
Arkansas (LB Drew Sanders, C Stromburg)
LSU (EDGE Ojulari, CB Jay Ward, WR Boutte)
Maryland
North Dakota State (Cody Mauch)
Oklahoma State
Mississippi
Pittsburgh (Maybe Kancey will grow again??)
Texas Tech
UCF
Wake Forest (AT Perry)
Washington

March 30
Appalachian State
Charlotte
Florida (DT Gervon Dexter, OG O'Cyrus Torrence)
Florida A&M
Florida State
Fresno State
Oklahoma
TCU (CB Hodges-Tomlison, OG Avila, WR QJohnston)
Tennessee (OT Darnell Wright and the two WRs Hyatt and Tillman)

March 31
Kansas
Kansas State
South Dakota State
Tennessee-Chattanooga

April 4
Clemson (Myles Murphy)

April 6
Alabama

[Moriarty]

Is anyone else finding that Pro Day results are getting much harder to find?

I swear it was much easier 5 years ago. It's like 2005 all of a sudden.

[wulfy]

Iowa Pro Day

Note, don't trade below the Steelers if you like Van Ness:
Mike Tomlin and Omar Khan are at Iowa's pro day watching Lukas Van Ness. That is a HUGE DEAL. Which means they are considering him in the 1st round. Brian Baldinger says Van Ness looks like TJ Watt on college tape.

https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sport ... 014812007/


Syracuse Pro Day
My Guy:
Matthew Bergeron, who has continued to climb draft boards through his performances at Senior Bowl and NFL Combine, repped 29 bench press reps at 225 lbs and posted the fastest 3-cone drill of any offensive lineman that competed at the combine (7.27 seconds).

https://www.localsyr.com/orange-nation/ ... g-pro-day/

[wulfy]

JS-N ran a 4.48 at The Ohio State University's Pro Day. Not an unexpected number, he was never seen as a burner - his Shuttle (3.93) and his 3 Cone (6.57) were both top at the combine by a big distance for both drills.

Wouldn't move him up or down from where he was expected and I expect he'll be the first WR off the board.

[wulfy]

SMU's Rashee Rice showed off some top-level route running in pro day:
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/smus ... r-cowboys/

[Middleguard]

So Dawand Jones wussied out at the Senior Bowl, only ran at the combine (and not very fast at that), and has now wussied out of his pro day. What's his problem?

[Grizzled]

A good article on Poles and his thinking on the draft, the value of the Bears staying at #1, and trading out of the pick after the Alabama pro day:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2023 ... t-eberflus

Poles knows the Bears are out of the running for the Tide's 2 blue chippers, Young because they don't need a QB and Anderson because of the trade. But there are several other players who the Bears are keeping an eye on. He mentions the trade giving the Bears the opportunity to add more players at positions the Bears need to fill. The article does not mention any Tide OL, who might be targets in rounds 3 and lower.

[wulfy]

Maybe @Grizzled, Poles was asking the Alabama staff what to do with Leatherwood, who seems to be a giant (pun intended) mystery.

[Grizzled]

Maybe @Grizzled, Poles was asking the Alabama staff what to do with Leatherwood, who seems to be a giant (pun intended) mystery.

Hopefully he doesn't turn out to be one of those guys who are great in college but just can't transition their game to the pros. I don't know, if he can't cut it at RT, do they try him at G?

[Moriarty]

Maybe , Poles was asking the Alabama staff what to do with Leatherwood, who seems to be a giant (pun intended) mystery.

Hopefully he doesn't turn out to be one of those guys who are great in college but just can't transition their game to the pros. I don't know, if he can't cut it at RT, do they try him at G?

He was speculated to maybe have to move before the draft.

After 2 teams have hated what they saw from him at RT, it's G or nothing in my book.
Preferably LG, since he supposedly prefers that side and Carter has mostly worked at RG, I think.

[EricTighe]

So Dawand Jones wussied out at the Senior Bowl, only ran at the combine (and not very fast at that), and has now wussied out of his pro day. What's his problem?

I think he is getting bad advice from his agent. It isn't like he was projected top 5 pick. He was a 2nd or 3rd rounder when this started.

[EricTighe]

Oh yeah at his size his 40 time was very respectful.

Look up Orlando's Brown when you get the chance.

[Grizzled]

Hopefully he doesn't turn out to be one of those guys who are great in college but just can't transition their game to the pros. I don't know, if he can't cut it at RT, do they try him at G?

He was speculated to maybe have to move before the draft.

After 2 teams have hated what they saw from him at RT, it's G or nothing in my book.
Preferably LG, since he supposedly prefers that side and Carter has mostly worked at RG, I think.

Curioser and curioser. Depending on who the Bears draft for RT (and Poles needs to draft a good to excellent talent), it's going to be an interesting training camp sorting out the OL.