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Originally Posted by That Guy
bad pro day numbers. 19 reps? 5.3 aint great either, but it's less important.
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Reps are worthless as a combine tool though, because blocking is all footwork, balance and hand placement anyway.
We look at nineteen reps and say "whoa, he's not nearly as strong as other guys" but anyone who can put up 225 12 times or more is plenty strong to play in the NFL. He's still in the top 0.3% of males at his age, obviously.
If he
does fail in the NFL, it will be for other reasons. Perhaps his relative bench totals and 40 time are indicative of a bigger problem, but there's no correlation between combine (or pro day) bench reps and NFL success anyway, so I'd say the kids stock probably shouldn't fall any because of this.
If anything, this validates his story at the combine about not wanting to work out, and was probably a good business decision in the long run. Had he put up a 14 spot at the combine, he might have dropped out of the first round. Now, he's still going to be the third or fourth tackle taken.
Of course, reason #1 why the draft process is good: some team would have taken this guy with the first or second overall pick after the season ended.