Peter King gets the perfect combine quotable

by Dan Kadar on Feb 22, 2010 12:46 PM EST in 2010 NFL Draft

In this week's Monday Morning Quarterback, Peter King of Sports Illustrated talks the combine, among other things. He gets a money quote from an anonymous team executive.

This executive said that heading into Indianapolis that his team's draft board is 90 percent set. The reasoning:

"You know why it's 90 percent set now? Because guys go to the Scouting Combine and they change their grade on a player based on things that have nothing to do with playing football. I'm convinced if you took the stopwatches away from a lot of these guys, most of 'em would not be able to tell you whether they liked a player or not.

This is how I view the combine. But still, we'll have content from Indy. Five people from the SB Nation platform will be there, so we'll set up a hub of content here at MTD.

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Can anyone stomach watching the whole damn thing?

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by Patssuck456 on Feb 22, 2010 9:39 PM EST reply actions

This is stupid

Would you sacrifice your 1st round pick for a player with a horrible combine drill, such as 40 time, or anyone of the other drills? I would like to see this executive draft a WR in the top 10 who runs a 4.7. It wouldnt happen.

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by Hook85 on Feb 23, 2010 1:24 AM EST reply actions

you know who ran a 4.7 at the combine? Anquan Boldin.

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by Dan Kadar on Feb 23, 2010 9:07 AM EST up reply actions

WR times

Boldin was a 2nd rounder. A better player to mention is Crabtree, who was picked in the top 10. Of course, he did not have a time, but the estimates I saw were 4.6+

I think few people fall at the combine. The players that are going to run slow or measure small, everyone knows it already. Nicks ran a slow 40 last year (not sure if he ran at the combine, maybe at his pro day?). Then he ran past everyone on the field in actual games.

But you cannot tell me the combine does not help guys like Johnny Knox. Or Pat White. The guys with question marks, if they perform very well, erase the question marks. Can Pat White play as a pocket QB? We all saw that he can.

by ct17 on Feb 23, 2010 9:42 AM EST up reply actions

From what I have read, Boldin was a projected 1st rounder and dropped to the second because of his bad 40 time. Apparently they were wrong about him, but what if your expecting a guy to be blazing fast because you need that type of WR that can spread the feild and it turns out he is just decent speed and the level of speed he played against just made him look that much faster in collge. You dont think that would change his stock?

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by Hook85 on Feb 23, 2010 8:00 PM EST up reply actions