QB workouts hilite final full week on pro day sched … Just following up on the last story below on the public comments by head coaches Dan Quinn of Washington and New England’s Jerod Mayo on their respective team’s interest in taking a QB with the their first pick at next month’s draft. We kind of know where both guys are going to be this week as the QBs those teams have been most associated with – LSU’s Jayden Daniels and Drake Mayo of North Carolina – will be throwing at their respective team’s pro days later this week. Daniels and LSU, for example, are set to go on Wednesday, while Mayo and the Tar Heels are scheduled for Thursday. Unfortunately, in one of those genius scheduling arrangements too often characteristic of the pro day schedule, Washington’s Michael Penix, the last of this year’s top 6 QBs who also has not thrown yet, will also be doing his pro day passing session on Thursday. Of course, those are not the only pro days these week; others that NFL teams will be especially interested include Western Kentucky (WR Malachi Corley) on Monday; NC State (LB Payton Wilson) on Tuesday; Tennessee (QB Joe Milton and RB Jaylin Wright), Mississippi (DE Cedric Johnson) and Washington State (S Jaden Hicks and DE Brennan Jackson) on Wednesday; and Duke (C Graham Barton and DT Dewayne Carter) and Rutgers (CB Max Melton) on Thursday. There are also several unique events this week starting on Tuesday when Minnesota holds a private work out with Michigan QB JJ McCarthy, while the Big XII will hold a 4-day pro day/combine for all teams in the conference (minus Texas and Oklahoma which are off to the SEC and held their own workouts) in Dallas beginning on Wednesday. And then on Friday, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver will hold a pro day for 6-8 OT Theo Benedet, the top pro prospect in Canadian college football this year, and OG Giovanni Manu.
