#ProTops: NFL Combine Results for White, Iyiegbuniwe
The NFL Combine wrapped up this past weekend, and both Mike White and Joel Iyiegbuniwe took part in the festivities.
The NFL Combine wrapped up this past weekend, and both Mike White and Joel Iyiegbuniwe took part in the festivities.
Mike White’s results
White was either middle of the pack or near the bottom of the quarterback prospects in a lot of the drills, including running the slowest 40-yard dash (5.09).
White also logged a:
27" in the vertical
8'0" in the broad jump
7.50 in the 3-cone drill (worst time amongst QB’s)
4.40 in the 20-yard shuttle
White also got a mention in SBNation’s “Winners and Losers,” in the Losers section…we’ll let them explain.
If we’re going strictly from a measurables standopint, Western Kentucky’s Mike White is an immediate mention. His times were all among the lowest, and all below historical averages.
Yikes that…isn’t great. But, we all know he isn’t the quickest QB, and the odds that a team that runs a system requiring a mobile signal caller weren’t eyeing him anyway. SBN also mentioned him in the “Who didn’t help themselves” category in just about every workout.
Long story short here — yes, he didn’t have a great combine, but I don’t think it hurt his draft stock that much. Maybe he slides to the fifth round instead of the fourth? But he’s still going to a Patriots-esque offense. (I say that because this.)
Joel Iyiegbuniwe’s results
Iggy posted solid numbers over the weekend:
a 4.60 40-yard-dash time
a 35" vertical
a 9'9" broad jump
a 7.06 3-cone shuffle
a 4.28 20-yard shuttle
As Packers Wire noted, Iggy was apart of one of the fastest linebacking groups in over a decade, but there hasn’t been a ton of post-combine talk about him (much like there wasn’t a ton of pre-combine talk on him).
While there isn’t a lot of pub surrounding Iggy, I think he may have helped his cause a bit with the numbers he posted (much like White, I’m talking maybe a sixth round to fifth or even late fourth? I really don’t know what the projection on Iggy is). It wouldn’t surprise me if Iggy went anywhere from middle third (mayyyyyyybe a bit of a stretch) to mid-late fifth.
Long story short — neither guy hurt his cause tremendously one way or the other, and we will have two new ProTops have their names called in the NFL Draft.
What say you? Were you impressed or disappointed with either performance? Let us know in a comment below, on Twitter, our Facebook page or forums.