![]() Justin Simmons never made an NFL practice squad. Damian Copeland spent one season on the Jags practice squad before washing out of the league. He is out of the NFL and finished his career with 26 carries for 102 yards and 2 TDs as a runner. Chris Rainey spent two seasons in the NFL during which he was mostly a kickoff returner. Daniel Sorensen has been a special teams player for the Chiefs for the past two seasons. In fact if you look back at the top three CoD performers at the combine for the past six combines, you will see a bunch of names that didn't make it in the NFL Combine Yearīuster Skrine was a starter for two years on some average to bad Browns' defenses before moving to Jets last season where he was their #3 corner. ![]() really low) CoD scores, yet fail in the NFL caused me to reevaluate. Seeing a bunch of players get really good (i.e. Maehl also played four seasons but had even less playing time, finishing his career with 9 catches for 113 yards and 1 TD (his only TD came in the Eagles' blowout loss to us). Sanzenbacher played four years in the NFL grabbing 43 catches for 449 yards and 3 TDs. They had two of the best CoDs I have seen (10.36 and 10.43), but neither was able to do much in the NFL. Dane Sanzenbacher and Jeff Maehl are two names that need to be mentioned in this context. This was an interesting thing to track, but it could be fooled by tiny little receivers who were blindingly quick but didn't have the mass to survive in the NFL. Change of Direction (CoD)īack in 2010 I started adding the 3-cone time and the 20-yd shuttle time to get what I termed the Change of Direction score, CoD. Image courtesy of Von dominated in this drill as well, running it in 4.06 seconds. In this drill the player starts in the "middle" of the drill, turns 90 degrees and runs 5 yards as quickly as possible, stops, turns 180 degrees, accelerates and runs 10 yards as quickly as possible, stops, turns 180s degrees and accelerate back to the starting point (see graphic below) The 20-yd shuttle (sometimes referred to as the short shuttle) is the other drill that measures foot quickness, agility and body control. Not surprisingly, Von Miller crushed this drill finishing in 6.70 seconds. For a defensive end, this drill, more than any other, shows how well he can do as an edge rusher. The 3-cone drill measures how quickly you accelerate, stop, turn, accelerate again, turn 90 degrees, slow down, turn 180 degrees, accelerate, turn 90 degrees again and accelerate (see the graphic below). ![]() There are two tests at the combine designed to measure quickness, agility and body control - the 3-cone drill and the 20-yd shuttle. For those positions, quickness is a much more critical attribute. Many positions of the field don't rely on straight-line speed on a regular basis. I did a a couple of articles looking at speed score a while back. ![]() In the speed score you get lots of credit if you can run fast and you weigh as much as a horse. Those who follow the NFL draft closely are probably aware of the speed score, which factors in a player's mass and his 40 time then normalizes to 100 to show performance relative to a year-to-year mean adjusted for size.
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