Senior Bowl observations: Thursday morning report … After a couple of high-tempo practices, the National team session Thursday morning was something of a muted affair with mostly a lot of situational work especially in the red zone. As such, there wasn’t a whole lot new to report so instead here’s our very informal, very unofficial list of players who we think helped themselves on draft boards around the league, again noting that teams generally put a lot more emphasis on what happens in the practice sessions rather than in the actual game. So in no particular order, the guys who we think really helped themselves included: WRs Tez Johnson of Oregon and Virginia Tech’s Jaylin Lane; Miami TE Elijah Arroyo; NC State OT Andrew Belton; G/Ts Grey Zabel of North Dakota State and Texas Tech’s Caleb Rogers; USC C Jonah Monheim; DTs Josh Farmer of Florida State and Virginia Tech’s Aeneas Peebles; Toledo DE Darius Alexander; Oregon LB Jeff Bassa; and CBs Quincy Riley of Louisville and USC’s Jaylin Smith. Honorable mentions go to: WRs Kyle Williams of Washington State and Iowa State’s Jayden Higgins; Miami G/T Jalen Rivers; Nebraska DT Ty Robinson; Oklahoma State LB Nick Martin; CBs Azareye’h Thomas of Florida State and Nebraska’s Tommi Hill; and safety Jonas Sanker of Virginia. We also have a special category of players that at least earned longer loos from pro teams including Laurier QB Tyler Elgersma, OTs Ozzy Trapilo of Boston and Jalen Travis of Iowa State, Utah DT Junior Tafuna and Western Michigan CB Bilhal Kone. Finally a short list of players we would have liked to see more from including Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel, OTs Josh Conerly of Oregon, Minnesota’s Airetonay Ersery and Wyatt Milum of Western Michigan, and Marshall DE Mike Green, although we caution again not to read too much of anything tyhat happened or didn’t happen in three days of practices in a strange environment.
