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Is The Combine Over Rated?

By Jeremy Green and Todd McShay

Friday, April 10, 2009

S THE COMBINE OVERRATED? MCSHAY No. Since the Mike Mamula debacle, how many true combine busts have there been? In the three-year span from 2001 to 2003 (you can't evaluate a draft class for at least three years), I count four: DB Willie Middlebrooks, WR Ashley Lelie, DE Eddie Freeman and QB Kyle Boller. That's out of 769 players. NFL teams want the 411 on a prospect before they invest big money. It wasn't until this year's combine that coaches learned that Florida State OLB Lawrence Timmons ...

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