Dove: LSU 2010 Pro Day

Posted in March 19, 2010 ¬ 8:26 pmh.thinkpinksm22 Comments »

Louisiana State Uni­ver­sity has his­tor­i­cally been known for its abil­ity to pro­duce NFL-caliber tal­ent, and with this year’s Pro Day, held Mon­day, March 15 in the Tigers’ indoor prac­tice facil­ity, scouts rep­re­sent­ing all 32 NFL teams were con­vinced of lit­tle otherwise.

Many of those par­tic­i­pat­ing in Monday’s Pro Day work­outs — a list includ­ing for­mer LSU play­ers such as Bran­don LaFell, Charles Scott, Ciron Black, Chad Jones, Rahem Alem, and Harry Cole­man — had already estab­lished them­selves as indi­vid­u­als likely to get a strong look from NFL teams in next month’s draft.  Nev­er­the­less, all play­ers involved aimed to fur­ther show­case their tal­ents as a means of rein­forc­ing and improv­ing their poten­tial draft stock, with few, if any, dis­ap­point­ing in their time in the spotlight.

The fol­low­ing is a run­down of some of the things heard and seen Mon­day morning:

  • Lafell said he was both­ered by a ham­string injury, but still man­aged to post a 4.54 40 yard dash and par­tic­i­pate in posi­tion drills.
  • Black recorded a 26-inch ver­ti­cal jump, a 7–7 broad jump and did par­tic­i­pate in some shut­tle and posi­tion drills.
  • Jones ran a 4.57 in the 40, had a 9–7 broad jump and did 11 bench press reps, improv­ing his num­bers from last month’s offi­cial NFL combine.
  • Scott ran a 4.53 in the 40, had a 31-inch ver­ti­cal, a 9–6 broad jump and also par­tic­i­pated in posi­tion drills.
  • Alem posted a 33-inch ver­ti­cal and a 9–7 broad jump.
  • Cole­man ran a 4.48 40, net­ted a 33-inch ver­ti­cal jump, a 9–10 broad jump and par­tic­i­pated in posi­tion drills.
  • Trindon Hol­i­day stood on all of his com­bine num­bers but did par­tic­i­pate in posi­tion drills.
  • Richard Dick­son ran a 4.85 40, recorded a 28 1/2 inch ver­ti­cal jump and par­tic­i­pated in pos­i­tion drills.
  • Every year there are always play­ers who improve their stock after miss­ing out on an invite to com­bine; this was true again Mon­day, as safety Danny McCary com­pleted 24 reps on the bench, ran a 4.46 in the 40 and had a 34 inch ver­ti­cal jump.

One of the more inter­est­ing sto­ries at this year’s Pro Day came from a guy that didn’t even play at LSU — for­mer Okla­homa State / Texas South­ern quar­ter­back Bobby Reid, who was on hand to throw to receivers and run­ning backs in posi­tion drills.  Reid  tore his ACL while under cen­ter for Texas South­ern, and after hav­ing surgery to repair the dam­age,  asked cur­rent LSU head coach Les Miles — who coached Reid while still at Okla­homa State — if he could par­tic­i­pate in LSU’s Pro Day. Miles agreed.

Reid ran a 4.64 40, recorded a 9–3 broad jump, a 33 1/2 ver­ti­cal jump, and benched 19 reps.

What fol­lows is a col­lec­tion of images from Monday’s Pro Day as pro­vided to Think Pink Sports Media by Melinda Dove.  As always, all mate­r­ial in this post remain the sole prop­erty of Melinda and Think Pink Sports Media and may not be repro­duced with­out explicit per­mis­sion, obtain­able by email­ing melinda@thinkpinksm.org.  Click each sin­gle image to enlarge or choose “View with Pic Lens” to begin slide show.

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