NFL Combine

[bluefieldRocks 14]

Allrighty im back.....And nope this isnt the tackle that broke his leg, If you go to the site that you got the pic form the caption below it says tackled by mike doss.. Picture

 

 

But really on all the other pictures he was tackled by Will Allen. Which is #4, and if you look closley in that pic, behind that one OSU player you see #4 , will allen....

 

It's really not that big of an issuse, i was just making sure...

 

Case Closed..lol

I should become a detective or something..haha

[beaverbaseball 10]

haha yea I was tryin to look in the background for people 2, but it was hard to tell, it just looks like the picture by the way he fell

[BigBlue02 11]

Defensive guys ran yesterday James the DE from Wisconson ran a 4.7 40 I believe but dont qoute me on that.

[beaverbaseball 10]

thats pretty good for a defensive end

[BigBlue02 11]

Yeah i know I dont have any idea on what pollock ran.

[beaverbaseball 10]

In another example of how five seconds can definitively change your life, we present you with Maurice Clarett.

 

He ran/jogged a 4.82-second 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine -- live on national TV, no less -- and now he's a mystery all over again. Everyone is taking shots at Clarett. Some media members actually sat in the press room Saturday laughing out loud at his expense. One NFC scout said he could've run better than Clarett.

 

But that wasn't the worst of it. After Clarett ran a 4.72 in his second attempt -- and decided, out of frustration, to blow off the rest of the drills -- many teams wrote him off completely. They said if he quits at a combine, he'll quit in a fourth quarter somewhere. That's how a lot of NFL people think, and probably nothing can change their minds ... not even the whole story.

 

But someone -- maybe an Arizona, maybe an Oakland -- will try to find out what really happened to Maurice Clarett at the combine and over the last 12 months. And maybe then they'll get off his back.

 

Let's go back a year, to the 2004 combine. Clarett, who at the time was eligible for the draft, noticed how the scouts, during the weigh-in, were salivating over Greg Jones of Florida State. Jones was chiseled, looking like an Adonis, and a flabby Clarett made a mental note right then that it should've been him.

 

Later, after the courts had removed him from the 2004 draft, his mind kept drifting back to Jones. If he was going to repeat the process, and parade again in front of NFL scouts in his underwear, he was going to be buff. In fact, he said he was going to look better than Jones. He was going to look like David Boston.

 

In retrospect, it was a mistake. Boston, the sculpted Miami Dolphins wide receiver, has tried in the past to play at 250-plus pounds, and has experienced knee problems as a result. Clarett ended up following a similar training and eating regimen and, while he appeared rock solid, his body mass had increased too much. His work ethic was commendable and his body fat was plummeting, but his weight was exorbitant and there had to be some doubt about what it would do to his speed.

 

Eventually, by late January, he was ready to choose his agents. And in concert with his attorney, David Kenner, he settled on Steve Feldman, who represents Corey Dillon and Rodney Harrison of the world champion New England Patriots. Feldman and his associate, Josh Luchs, explained to Clarett that he had to get his weight down, preferably in the 220s, and Kenner -- Clarett's most trusted confidant -- agreed with them.

 

By this time, Clarett did not have a permanent trainer, so on his own he began working 16-hour days in Los Angeles to get trimmer and leaner. No one knows how heavy he'd been at his apex -- although it's conceivable he'd been around 250 pounds at one point -- but it was through tireless work that he showed up in Indianapolis at 234.

 

The problem was, his body might have been sapped from losing a lot of weight in a short period of time. And he was also way too nervous, skittish that his entire future was coming down to a three-day period in Indianapolis. He actually ended up flying into Indy two days ahead of the combine, afraid that he couldn't get a proper workout in rain-infested Southern California. That's how intent he was about performing well; he was borderline neurotic about it.

The first two days of the combine seemed to ease his fears a little. His press conference, his first public appearance in a year, was an unequivocal success. He never bashed his former school, Ohio State, and he explained that he'd do every drill the NFL people asked him to do, that he was willing to play special teams next season or be third string. His interviews with teams went smoothly as well, because he was forthright and humble.

 

A year before, when a few teams asked about his family, he snapped, "What does my family have to do with anything? I'm here to play football." He'd been confrontational, a loner, but this time he was one of the pack. Players wanted to eat meals with him, were following him around, were asking him questions about the combine.

 

After he did 22 repetitions of 225 pounds on the bench press -- one of the best numbers put up by a running back -- most teams were beginning to perceive him as a first-day draft pick. They liked that his body fat was down from almost 17 percent last year to 11.4 percent this year.

 

But every night, late at night, he'd still get back on the hotel treadmill. He was worried about the 40, knew he had to deliver in the 40.

 

The pressure had to be getting to him. No one was more scrutinized that week than him, and on the day before the 40-yard dashes, he took off during his lunch break and ran wind sprints on an outdoor track in 30-degree weather.

 

Even that night, 14 hours before his 40-yard dash, he was back on the hotel treadmill, running, thinking, analyzing.

 

The next day, of course, was a disaster. He's never been a speedster anyway, but his 40s lacked explosion. He looked spent, defeated. The worst thing he could've done was quit, but that's what he did, on a whim, overwhelmed by the embarrassment of it all. Last year, completely out of shape, he had run a 4.6. This year, in shape, he'd run a 4.8.

 

His closest confidants felt he'd over-trained, but the spin had already been spun by then. Word traveled fast. NFL people said he was a bust, that he might not get drafted. It broke his heart, and in a post-40 interview with The NFL Network, which no one in their right mind would have expected him to do, he was inconsolable and took full responsibility for his collapse.

 

Where does he go from here? He's back in L.A., and he's headed back to the gym, back to a trainer who specializes in speed and fast muscle twitch. He said he will work out at Ohio State's Pro Day, on March 8, but this is news to Ohio State, where he is essentially on a black list.

 

Either way, he will run again, at a weight better suited for the 40, and his hope is that some team, any team will bring a stopwatch.

 

Because all it takes is one.

 

Tom Friend is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine. E-mail him at tom.friend@espnmag.com.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft05/columns/story?id=2001738&num=2

[beaverbaseball 10]

Here are some of the 40 times from the combine:

 

Reggie Brown: 4.53

Aaron Rodgers: 4.71

Mike Williams: 4.59

Adrian McPherson: 4.72

Stefan LaFors: 4.62

Jerome Mathis: 4.32

Roscoe Parrish: 4.43

J.J Arrington: 4.46

Ronnie Brown: 4.48

[bluefieldRocks 14]

Is there any word on rasheed marshall? he can run a 4.50

 

He was going there as a WR but i havent herd anything from him...

[beaverbaseball 10]

Im not really sure, I can not find all of the results

[uscgamecocks 10]

Running back Clarett is slow in 40-yard dash

By Jim Thomas

Of the Post-Dispatch

02/26/2005

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INDIANAPOLIS - Maurice Clarett fizzled in his long-awaited workout at the NFL scouting combine. Unofficially, the former Ohio State running back was clocked in 4.82 seconds and 4.72 seconds in two runs of the 40-yard dash Saturday in the RCA Dome.

 

Although Clarett is not known as a burner, his slow time astounded some in attendance.

 

"I would have never dreamed it," one scout from an NFC East club said. "I thought he'd at least run a 4.65."

 

Although Clarett appeared to be in much better shape physically this year than last, one NFC West scout said Clarett looked fleshy at his workout.

 

Clarett was so disappointed after running his 40s that he put on his sweats and stopped working out.

 

"It was a tough day," Clarett told the NFL Network.

 

In contrast, three running backs who worked out in Clarett's group Saturday broke 4.5 seconds: California's J.J. Arrington (4.46), Auburn's Ronnie Brown (4.48) and Michigan State's Deandra Cobb (4.49)

[beaverbaseball 10]

Just give Clarett a year or two and he will be a starting RB in the NFL

[uscgamecocks 10]

I agree, I mean look at Jerome Bettis, hes not running less than a 4.5-40, and the man is 5th all time rushing leader with 13,294 rushing yds, not sayin that Clarett will put up those numbers, but hey Bettis was a Full Back his entire life, up until his NFL Combine, no one thought he would put up those yards either

[beaverbaseball 10]

that is true but Bettis is a bigger and more powerful running back then Clarett

[uscgamecocks 10]

Maybe in height, but did you see the guy yesterday? hes huge, if Bettis is bigger, then its not by much at all

[beaverbaseball 10]

I heard Clarett has put on 15 or 20 pounds since he left OSU

[uscgamecocks 10]

Yeah, last year when he thought he was getting in the draft, he came 15-20lbs fat wise OVER-weight, and out of shape, he worked his butt off and got overweight as in Muscle, and got slower, its just a mistake, once he loses some weight, he'll be back to the old Clarett, cutting, and running over people.

[beaverbaseball 10]

yes he will, I just hope he doesn't have the attitude like Moss has

[uscgamecocks 10]

I really don't think he will, that wasnt attitude yesterday when he walked off, it was embarassment, I think hes got something to prove now, and hes going to do it

[beaverbaseball 10]

I sure hope so

[BigBlue02 11]

If not hes going be another draft flop,I would like to see Jones from Arkansas be a wideout/qb in the NFL or an h back.

[bigbluetuba 10]

NE body know how Randall did????

[beaverbaseball 10]

the only thing I saw on him was where he threw the ball 57 MPH

I didn't even knew they timed that?? LOL

[bigbluetuba 10]

Is that good???? 4 NFL ppl??

[beaverbaseball 10]

It was tied 4 first with 3 other people so i'd say so LOL

[bigbluetuba 10]

good mabye he will get a higher draft pick