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Would have been nice if he could have done that 3 years ago.

I hope my bears take him in the 2nd instead of taking the ND or Stanford TE's like every mock draft is showing. Then they can blow their 1st on a OT who will be a bust.

True RE: Sims needing to drop weight sooner. But, his sole priority after football season has been purely to workout and get ready for the combine. He doesn't have to deal with being a student athlete anymore.

Sims measuring in with some big hands, 10.5", second biggest hand size for TEs behind UCLA's Joseph Fauria.

Mike Glennon (QB - NC State) making himself some money by measuring in at a legit 6'7 225lbs.

Apparently teams want to look at Collin Klein as a TE.

Le'Veon Bell measures in at 6'1 230lbs.

Denard Robinson 5'11 199lbs.

Also gonna do well in bench press and vertical (for his size).

I think Bell's faster than most people make him out to be, especially if he's slimmed down to 230. However, I get the feeling that his lumbering gait makes him look slower.

read a quote from Mike Mayock re: Bell. Said he doesn't "play big enough". Thought that was interesting, as I often that he played bigger than he is.

Tyler Wilson (QB - Arkansas) with the smallest hands out of all QBs, 8.68".

EJ Manuel from FSU and Matt Barkley from USC with some of the bigger hands at 10"+.

I think that's the point though, in the NFL teams are going to want him to lower his shoulder because NFL defenses are so much bigger, stronger, and faster. I personally like the way he runs right now but it's legitimate concern that the moves that made him so good in college won't be as effective in the NFL, so Mayock was basically trying to say that he needs to stick to being a big power back, and not a tweener.

With arms that long, that is not shocking to me. The bench press favors the short armed guys a lot.

But the point is that there aren't NFL RBs that are successful that just lower their shoulder every play. The reason for that is the size of NFL defenders. Bell's size advantage will be neutralized more in the NFL than his vision/agility will be, so to say that he doesn't play big enough is inaccurate in my mind. When Bell needed to run over someone to get a yard or two, he did it (unless the o-line imploded in short yardage). But why, on first and 10, should he run over one guy just to gain 3 yards instead of two when he has just as good a chance of picking up 8 yards if he spins or jukes the guy? Look, Bell has weaknesses, but for Mayock to say one of them is not using his size just makes me think that he was watching edited clips without any knowledge of the situation.

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