Don Banks: Despite layoff, Bloom impresses NFL (Sports Illustrated)
Don Banks: Despite layoff, Bloom impresses NFL (Sports Illustrated)
Jeremy Bloom’s skiing days ended in Turin, but his NFL career may just be starting. The former Colorado receiver wowed scouts at the NFL combine, writes SI.com’s Don Banks.
Bloom begins NFL metamorphosis at combine (USA Today)
Jeremy Bloom put away the ski boots, slipped into some cleats and made a reasonably swift return to football when he ran for scouts on Sunday at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. Bloom, 23, said he had been told by one scout he had been clocked at 4.39 seconds in the 40-yard dash, though his unofficial times as reported by the NFL Network were 4.49 and 4.5 seconds.
Study: Football coaches are conservative (PhysOrg)
A University of California-Berkeley researcher says he’s discovered professional football coaches tend toward conservative decision-making behavior.
For Draft Elite, NFL Combine Isn’t Graded on Participation (The New York Sun)
INDIANAPOLIS - NFL coaches have gathered here this month to watch last year’s top college football players run, jump, and lift at the league’s scouting combine. But the elite prospects will leave town without breaking a sweat. That’s because most of the very best players, including Texas quarterback Vince Young, Virginia tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson, and USC’s trio of quarterback Matt Leinart and
Don Banks: Despite layoff, Bloom impresses NFL (Sports Illustrated)
INDIANAPOLIS — Italy and the Olympics may not have gone quite as well as he had hoped, but the whole Indianapolis experience went successfully for U.S. skier turned NFL prospect Jeremy Bloom.
NFL ROUNDUP: Millen picks Saban’s brain on adjustments (Detroit Free Press)
INDIANAPOLIS — Lions president Matt Millen is excited about his new coaching staff. But he knows he isn’t going to have a finished product by the season opener. “It better not be the finished product,” Millen said Sunday at the NFL scouting combine. “We better get better as the year goes on.
NFL Hall of Famer Eller arrested on suspicion of drunken driving (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
MINNEAPOLIS - NFL Hall of Fame defensive end Carl Eller was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence early Sunday morning, according to the State Patrol.
Kiwanuka views NFL as another way to uphold family name 2/26 (Provo Daily Herald)
INDIANAPOLIS — Mathias Kiwanuka is on a mission. Sure he wants to be a first-round pick in April’s NFL draft, like dozens of other players at this year’s NFL scouting combine, and he has the skills to achieve his goal. But unlike most players in Indianapolis, Kiwanuka considers football a game..
Kiwanuka carries his roots to NFL (Deseret Morning News)
Mathias Kiwanuka is on a mission. Sure he wants to be a first-round pick in April’s NFL draft, like dozens of other players at this year’s NFL scouting combine, and he has the skills to achieve his goal. But unlike most players in Indianapolis, Kiwanuka considers football a game. His responsibility is living up to the family tradition.
NFL of a different kind at Rancho Bernardo High (North County Times)
RANCHO BERNARDO —- Matt Phillippe is fully enmeshed in his rookie year in the NFL. No, not the National Football League. Matt is one of hundreds of North County students taking part in speech and debate competitions, all under the auspices of another NFL —- the National Forensic League.