A year after Anthony Spencer was one of the most impressive workout warriors and followed it up by a strong rookie year for Dallas, Purdue prospects were among the most impressive with tight end Dustin Keller, linebacker Stanford Keglar and defensive end Cliff Avril all testing as well as anyone at their respective positions. The 252-pound Avril moved like a linebacker with phenomenal quickness, leading all defensive linemen in the 3-cone drill, while Keglar led all linebackers with 29 reps in the bench press and topping everyone in the broad jump. He also came up with a solid 4.58 40 to go along with a 34-inch vertical, but it was his quickness that jumped off the charts by leading the linebackers in the three-cone drill and blowing everyone out of the water in the 20-yard shuttle.
As impressive as the Boilermaker defenders were, it was Keller who might have helped himself more than anyone in Indy by leading all the tight ends in the 40 (4.55), vertical (38 inches), broad jump (10-11, eight inches further than the No. 2 tight end), the three-cone (4.55) and the 20-yard shuttle (4.14), while he was second in the bench press (26 reps). Though not all that huge at 242 pounds, no one seems to care anymore after his display of athleticism and the way he lifted. Considered no better than the third tight end prospect coming into the weekend, he's now a likely first-rounder and possibly the top tight end.Courtesy of Fox Sports
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Before the combine, someone at FoxSports.com said Keller was the most overrated TE.
woo hoo! look at this pipeline of nfl-ready talent that purdue has created the last 10 years! that means we were perennial national title contenders, right??
oh wait...
i'm sick of this crap. how do we constantly produce guys that wow scouts in combines, get drafted and then succeed at the next level, yet somehow struggle to get to 8 wins as a team every year???
i hate to say it but i almost hope tiller doesn't get to his career wins record. i don't care about the backlash i get from making that statement, but it would be appropriate - he doesn't deserve the record as the last 6-7 years have been (at best) disappointing, and that's more than half his career at purdue. he doesn't deserve the record - after all, jack mollenkopf did not rack up pointless wins against MAC schools.
and in case you were wondering, he doesn't deserve the record. just making sure everyone got that.
/learning to proofread
now that's the kind of passionate statement we've been looking for.
Nice rant, mo. It is frusterating.
I say Tiller deserves the record if only because he actually got people to care about Purdue football again after a long, dark period. We probably wouldn't be on here bitching and moaning about how he's underachieved with the talent we have if we hand't had a little taste of success - and he brought that to us. For a split second in time (eh, 2 years or so) life was good for Boilermaker football fans.
He certainly has limped to the finish line though. Shit, who am I kidding? He limped for 3/4 of the race! I'm already writing off next season... Painter would need to have a complete metamorphosis in order for us to have some success (not to mention continue our streak of drafted QBs). I think our NFL pipeline will dry up until the plumber (Hope) can fix it.
Mo Boiler,
COmbine or workout success doesn't translate to winning football games. Just look at Mike Mamula or Blair Thomas to name a few. You are comparing apples to oranges.
Nate,
Painter needs a complete metamorphosis for us to be successful next year?! Really?
62% of his passes, 29 TD's, 11 INT's is pretty damn good. He took a huge step forward last year. What our team needs is some help in the running game and some time to throw. Painter is not the problem.
Yes, really. He took a step forward by reducing his ints last season, I'll give him that.
He will need to take a giant leap forward mentally in order to win big games next year. He was rattled is every one of our big games last season. Subtract all the TDs he scored playing MAC teams and other weak opponents (read: all of our wins except (?)Central Mich) and it really wasn't that impressive (to me). You're entitled to your own opinion, but just like combine workouts, I don't think those stats tell the whole story.
I agree that more protection would be nice, and hopefully is forthcoming with our new additions at the line and coach Hope. I think we could have run the ball much better if the playcallers didn't abandon the run game. And the fumbles didn't help either.
I'm sorry mo boiler, but you are damn ignorant.
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