Ben Gedeon goes 27*225 lbs

If you're being honest, have you tried lately? You might surprise yourself.

Go put 225 on a bench right now and see what happens.

Let us know how it goes.

Jabrill's future is likely at safety. Though it'll probably take him a year or two of playing the position to really get the hang of it. Shame he didn't really get a chance to focus at safety, but he's just so damn talented.

Question for the board: At 5'11, is there any concern of Peppers being too short for safety?

These GMs already know about the abilities of these players. Hell, they've got two to three years of tape, condensed to highlight plays in which they appear to be outstanding ,i.e., bulldozing the Rutgers RB as if he were in the offensive huddle vs. plays they appear to have had their asses handed to them. It's up to the experts within the organization to figure out the final score according to the tape, but they're looking for more than that during this time where the pressure alone also adds to the importance of their peformance. Obviously, other than the obvious stated above, this test helps determine not only strength but how much strength a player will have in the fourth quarter compared to his max. 

An effort like this tells the GMs the young man did not take too much time off between the bowl game and the combine. And just as they are able to dissect the aforementioned tape of the Best of and Worst of and give it an overall grade, the combine allows for things like this, i.e., work ethic, and watching the players for an extended period of time gives them an idea as to confidence vs. cockiness, me first vs. us together?, overall comportment, etc. A lot of emphasis is placed, of course, on just what kind of shape any given franchise is in and results of tests can help determine how a certain skill set might help them or if they can do a quick elimination of consideration based on what they need now. 

Those drafting the players knows the value of a given player in regard to their team's present condition. The 40 gets a lot of talk and everyone has a differing opinion. But all of these GMs and other decision makers are aware of the Randy Moss's, Charles Woodson's, D. Robinsons, etc. No matter how good Woodson looked in college in '97, they know if he runs a 40 at 4.6, 4.7, he isn't going to cover an NFL receiver. Just like they know the burners, they know all about the chain movers, those that catch anything in their zip code, and they are looked at completely different than the wide outs. If a receiver they are interested in runs a 40 .2 faster than the receiver they have on the roster now, their eyes open pretty damn wide. As stated, they are aware of what they have in regard to expected time of protection from the OL, amount oif time it takes QB to cleanly release the pass. In a case like that, it could allow them to dust off a significant number of passing plays they've set aside because this rookie allows the requisite amount of time based on what their current roster is capable of. 

As others have said, these tests mean different things to different organizations. Peyton's last year, for example, I'm sure Denver would have felt a lot better, and they probably acquired them, the higher the number of chain movers, opposed to flat out burners. 

I know they don't enjoy it as much as we, but as a fan I'm always impressed with a certain time, i.e., Ross or Bo's never to be matched 40, whether or not he actually ran that damn fast.