Sauce hot at CB combine weigh-in … Its always a good start when you go to the combine in a battle for the top spot at one’s position and you’re the best looking guy at the weigh-in/measurement session. Of course, they still have the on-field stuff to do later this afternoon, but at least in shorts, Ahmad – call me Sauce – Gardner of Cincinnati certainly looked the part of a shut-down NFL QB. In particular, NFL teams are always looking for length in a cover corner and will get that in Gardner who measured in at 6-2.5, 190 with 33.5-inch arms. In contrast, LSU’s Derek Stingley, the other CB generally thought to have top ten potential this year, was only 6-0, 190 with just 30.5-inch arms. In fact, short arms might be the story of the CB weigh-in as both Roger McCreary of Auburn and Washington’s Trent McDuffie, each of whom is considered to something of a rising prospect in this year’s class, had arms that came in at under 30 inches with McCreary measuring only 29 inches. At the same time, both Kyler Gordon, the UDub corner, and Georgia’s Derion Kendrick both had 31-inch arms, while Clemson’s Andrew Booth came in at 31.5. At the same time, a couple of other less well known corners looked pretty good including Tariq Wooten of Texas-San Antonio, who was already getting some buzz around the NFL, and Josh Williams of FCS Fayetteville State. Wooten, for example, impressed at 6-3.5, 205 with 33.5-inch arms, while Williams measured in at 6-2.5, 195 with 33-inch arms.
