February 28, 2016

One of the themes from the 2016 draft has been that the event has almost provided more questions than answers. And that theme really hasn’t changed much this morning as the first group of defensive linemen works out. First question, for example, did Ohio State DE Joey Bosa do enough to keep himself in the debate for the top pick overall. Bottom line is that in almost any other year, the answer would probably be no. Not that Bosa had an awful workout; he had a pretty quick 10-y ard split at 1.69, but the rest of his workout to date has been rather pedestrian. His 40-time was only 0.03 slower than that of JJ Watt a few years back, but Bosa weighs 20 pounds less than Watt (269 versus 290) and had 10 fewer reps (24 versus 34) in the bench press. And of course Watt was only the 11th player taken in his draft.