The running backs are running tonight, and one of them has run particularly fast. Wisconsin running back Jonathan Taylor generated a 4.41-second effort on Friday night in Indianapolis. Not bad for a guy who is north of 220 pounds. Coupled with three seasons of tremendous production at the college level — he had more than…… MORE
At times it seemed like it was going to be close enough to make a grown man say “ooooo” and “eeeee.” In the end, however, Tony Romo opted to stay put. John Ourand of Sports Business Journal reports that Romo has signed a long-term deal to stay at CBS. Andrew Marchand of the New York…… MORE
LSU offensive lineman Lloyd Cushenberry didn’t make it through his combine workout Friday. Cushenberry pulled up on his second 40-yard dash attempt, appearing to favor his right hamstring, Kimberly Jones of NFL Media reports. Cushenberry remained sidelined for the rest of the drills at the Combine. The first-team All-SEC lineman sat with an ice pack…… MORE
The NFL indefinitely suspended Randy Gregory almost exactly one year ago. Reports surfaced last summer that the defensive end would file for reinstatement with hopes of returning in 2019, and that’s the last we’ve heard of Gregory. He did not play last season. Although a report surfaced earlier Friday that Gregory recently had filed for…… MORE
No offensive lineman in Combine history can jump like Tristan Wirfs. Wirfs, who played his college football at Iowa, put up a 36.5-inch vertical jump and a 10-foot, 1-inch broad jump today at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. That vertical is the best ever for an offensive lineman while the broad jump ties the record…… MORE
The Scouting Combine is many things other than the Scouting Combine. Among other things, it’s Rumor Central, with reporters in varying degrees of sobriety constantly talking to coaches and executives in varying degrees of sobriety. Whether and to what extent rumor mongered while elbows are bending ever see the light of day is a different…… MORE
Every now and then when large people start running around doing drills, someone will pull a hamstring or something. We now have our most-painful-sounding injury of the Scouting Combine so far. According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, South Florida tight end Mitch Wilcox popped a blood vessel in his left eye when he was…… MORE
For the first three weeks of the XFL’s first (technically second) season, the ratings have consistently dropped. For the fourth week, the XFL will be facing the most competition yet for eyeballs. Both days of XFL games will compete with the Scouting Combine, with Saturday’s workouts from 4:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. ET and Sunday’s…… MORE
When Mekhi Becton stopped by PFT Live this week, he told Mike Florio and Charean Williams that his goal was to run the 40-yard-dash in 5.2 seconds at the Scouting Combine. Becton, who is the largest player at the Combine at 6’7″ and 364 pounds, did a little bit better than that on Friday. The…… MORE
The NFL moved Scouting Combine workouts from daytime to prime time in an effort to boost ratings on NFL Network, and those ratings were indeed boosted. Thursday’s live coverage of the Combine averaged 322,000 viewers, a 119 percent increase over last year’s Day One, which aired from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday night’s peak…… MORE
