Senior Bowl observations: Thursday morning report … The final practice session ahead of Saturday’s game just wrapped up in Mobile. And that likely means there is already a race to the airport among NFL personnel people. A couple of notes from this afternoon’s practice: both of QBs Jalen Milroe and Jaxson Dart, currently the #3 and 4 prospects at the position for the upcoming draft, threw the ball much better today, although Dart, in particular, still left something to be desired in his decision making. It was also hard not to notice that there is some genuine speed in the American backfield; indeed, it looks like one could put some combination of Georgia’s Trevor Etienne, RJ Harvey of UCF, Jarquez Hunter of Auburn and Delaware’s Marcus Yarns, who may be the fastest of the bunch, and they’d make for a pretty good 4X100 relay team. The other thing of note this afternoon was that a number of players including DTs Walter Nolen, arguably the top overall prospect in Mobile this week, Cam Jackson of Florida Kentucky’s Deone Walker and TJ Sanders of South Carolina were not on the field today.
Meanwhile, as we did with the National team earlier today, here are our staff picks for the top players at the afternoon practices (although to be honest it was a harder job picking out guys who really helped themselves in the PM workouts). Top players include TCU Jack Bech, although he clearly needs to work on his end zone dance!; LSU TE Mason Taylor; LSU OT Miles Frazier; North Carolina C/G Willie Lampkin; Texas DE Barryn Sorrell; DTs Aeneas Peebles of Virginia Tech and Florida State’s Josh Farmer; LSU DE Sa’vion Jones. Kentucky CB Max hairston; and Oklahoma FS Billy Bowman. Honorable mentions go to TEs Jackson Hawes of Georgia Tech and Clemson Jake Briningstool; Jacksonville State C/G Clay Webb; DEs Kyle Kennard of South Carolina and Princely Princely of Ole Miss; Florida DT Cam Jackson; Western Kentucky CB Upton Stout; and Maryland S Dante Trader. there was also a pretty big group of players who at least earned much longer looks from pro scouts including Delaware RB Marcus Yarns, Arkansas WR Isaac TeSlaa; C/Gs Jackson Slater of Sacramento State and Arkansas State’s Jacob Bayer; Auburn LB Jalen McLeod; and CBs mac McWilliams of UCF and Mel Smith of Southern Arkansas.
