2017 Michigan Football Spring Combine
Holy shit, DPJ and Rashan Gary. Wow.
https://twitter.com/CoachJim4UM/status/842499758153502721
Someone please embed.
Proud to announce top position performers of 2017 Michigan Football Spring Combine. Offense led by Chris Evans, defense led by Rashan Gary! pic.twitter.com/hAQKJo07Lc
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) March 16, 2017
Good looking out!
P.S. Those Gentry numbers are really impressive. I'd like to see what he can do out there with Bunting, Wheatley Jr. and McKeon/Eubanks.
March 17th, 2017 at 11:35 AM ^
- we were bootin' against the wind." - Bob Seger
I remember seeing him only once during the season, and that was the blocked extra point at the end of the FSU game. There was this really tall guy hauling ass down the field behind Metellus. Yep, Gentry. He was in there apparently for kick-blocking reasons.
March 17th, 2017 at 11:21 AM ^
Not just a kicker.
no kidding, his vertical is 1" higher than Gary's.
These seem like pretty non-fake numbers. I'm surprised that Evans was as slow as he is in the 40--4.6 ish isn't nearly as fast as I was expecting from him. Given that speed is a significant part of his game, that's interesting.
OTOH Rashan Gary is blazing fast. And look at those Zach Gentry numbers! If Gentry can competently do one of running routes, catching passes, and/or blocking, he's going to contribute this season.
I love that they're doing this. Usually we hear a number when a guy is recruited and then again at the NFL combine. This gives us real information, gives players a chance to prepare for a real part of the NFL process, and encourages good intrasquad competition. Pretty awesome.
A tad surprised that Higdon didn't have a better 40-time than Evans.
March 16th, 2017 at 11:06 PM ^
He could probably lower it more than a full 0.1s by preparing to run it like pros do before the combine...DPJ's numers are sick
March 17th, 2017 at 12:20 AM ^
Track speed is different than game speed. Very few times will a football player run straight unimpeded for 40 yards.
A guy running a 4.6 40 is fast. The difference between a 4.6 and a 4.4. could very well be an efficient start out of a track stance. Maybe Evans doesn't have a good start out of a track stance. We all know he is fast when already on the move coming off of a cut. And at the end of the day that is all that matters.
Jon Runyan is apprently athletic as fuck. Lets hope that means something on the football field.
That's honestly what caught my eye. Impressive.
March 16th, 2017 at 10:54 PM ^
then I remembered there was a non-zero chance Onwenu said, "Holy shit, that's a big ass grape," and then consumed it.
March 17th, 2017 at 10:02 AM ^
we'll see expedited improvement. Same for Mallory. Still remember Bo's last recruitment of Bill Mallory's kids. He was having a conversation with an assisting when he heard there was one who hadn't been offered. "He's a Mallory?" "Yup". "Offer him." Now that is putting some thought into your offers
4.57 40-yd dash for Rashan Gary! I guess we know which one is nicknamed Lightning between him and Solomon.
returning kicks. Could you imagine him getting up to full speed on a kick return? Who is going to try to tackle him?
Sooo, Rashan Gary is currently our fastest LB. Interesting.
Peters vs. Sessa is going to be the QB controversy going into the fall?
Sessa is 6' 8". I suppose we should expect to see him at TE before too long.
Peters with the sub-5 time could be usable in the very occasional QB veer play if/when he plays. We'll see.
Please no more Sugar Shane package-esque plays.
I doubt that Peters would get on the field for that sort of thing. But if/when he starts, defenses might have to account for him if Harbaugh runs the occasional read option play that we've seen from him before (including, two or three times, with not-so-fast Wilton Speight). It won't be a core play of the offense, but it can be a tool.
Now's the time to get hyped about Team 138!!!
GO BLUE!!
Don't know who WR Schonel is.
Me either. I looked up the 2016 and 2017 PWO's and couldn't find his name.
Caveot: As Stu McGill said "The best athletes rarely outperform their peers in pre-season testing like bench pressing and squatting. Their distinguishing qualities are motor control. The ability to exert strength quickly, deactivate muscle quickly, and optimally project forces throughout the body linkage is characteristic of this skill."
That being said, DPJ has some amazing athletic qualities to build from and I'm excited to see what he can do.
The test was specfically for everything you just wrote. There was no benching and squatting in the combine. Did you look at the tweet?
A bit of football news amidst the basketball news is welcome as always.
Pretty sure my 40-time at this point in my life would be more Eisen than Gary, but hoping that some of these stats are preludes to what we get to see this fall.
is twice as good as Gary's. I run a 9.14.
He is going to make life a living hell for opposing secondaries for the next 3-4 years.