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The 2024 NFL Scouting Combine went down in Indianapolis last week, and there were plenty of takeaways from the week of football festivities.
Which players helped — or hurt — their draft stock the most?
FOX Sports college football analyst RJ Young answered those questions on the latest edition of “The No. 1 College Football Show.”
Winner: Michigan QB J.J. McCarthy
Young’s thoughts: “J.J. McCarthy impressed the hell out of me on a number of occasions. He showed he can make that layered throw, which is one that we don’t get to see a lot of quarterbacks make. He showed that he can be accurate and he showed arm strength. I went into this thinking Joe Milton [has] got the strongest arm of anybody playing college football last year — maybe Michael Penix Jr. gives him a bit of a run for his money — and then ‘Bazooka’ Joe threw a football 62 miles per hour. J.J. McCarthy followed up [by] throwing one [at] 61 miles per hour. That is tremendous arm speed. Now, sometimes he would rifle a pass during the season that he didn’t need to rifle, but it is nice to know that you can throw a football as far as you need to throw a football given the opportunity.
“I think that he has done so much to help himself vault into that conversation of, ‘Do we take that guy after Caleb Williams, and if we don’t, when do we take that guy?’ as opposed to, ‘If he falls to the second round, somebody’s gonna snatch him.’ Now you gotta think about getting in there in the first 20, 15 picks if you’re in the market absolutely for a quarterback.”
Winner: Texas WR Xavier Worthy
Young’s thoughts: “You broke the NFL combine record in the 40-yard dash … [a] 4.21 out of Xavier Worthy is the kind of stuff that wins you a world championship. … Now [he] gets to talk about himself as, ‘I’m the guy you want to take after you take Marvin Harrison Jr.; I’m the guy you want to take if Brock Bowers is not there.’ You look at what Zay Flowers meant to the Baltimore Ravens and you look at what the…
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Publish date : 2024-03-07 18:44:05
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