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04-01-2012, 06:19 PM
Scout on Dontari Poe: Watch him play, he didn’t do anything
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 1, 2012, 7:38 AM EDT
http://nbcprofootballtalk.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/d-poe2.jpg?w=250 APThe excitement from Dontari Poe (http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/7422/dontari-poe)’s phenomenal Scouting Combine performance is starting to fade in the eyes of many league observers, who are turning their attention back to Poe’s tape — and not liking what they’re seeing.
Poe, the Memphis defensive tackle who took the Combine by storm by running a 4.87-second 40-yard dash at 346 pounds and bench-pressing 225 pounds 44 times, does not impress many of those who have watched him play.
“He’ll be overdrafted (http://www.nj.com/times-sports/index.ssf/2012/04/poe_might_not_be_as_good_as_sc.html),” one personnel man told the Times of Trenton. “He did all of that at the Combine, so some team will take him way higher than he should go. I mean watch him play, just watch. He didn’t do anything. And he wasn’t playing at a very high level, either. All I know is he had one sack last year and it came against Austin Peay. You probably didn’t even know Austin Peay had a football team.”
When Poe announced in December that he was entering the NFL draft (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/12/24/dontari-poe-robert-turbin-declare-for-nfl-draft/), he said he’d been told he projected as a second-rounder who could move into the first round with a good Combine. Poe didn’t have a good Combine — he had a great Combine — and he started being discussed as a Top 5 pick.
So those who watched him bench press and run 40 yards in a straight line are more impressed than those who watched him play football. That’s not a good sign.
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 1, 2012, 7:38 AM EDT
http://nbcprofootballtalk.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/d-poe2.jpg?w=250 APThe excitement from Dontari Poe (http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/7422/dontari-poe)’s phenomenal Scouting Combine performance is starting to fade in the eyes of many league observers, who are turning their attention back to Poe’s tape — and not liking what they’re seeing.
Poe, the Memphis defensive tackle who took the Combine by storm by running a 4.87-second 40-yard dash at 346 pounds and bench-pressing 225 pounds 44 times, does not impress many of those who have watched him play.
“He’ll be overdrafted (http://www.nj.com/times-sports/index.ssf/2012/04/poe_might_not_be_as_good_as_sc.html),” one personnel man told the Times of Trenton. “He did all of that at the Combine, so some team will take him way higher than he should go. I mean watch him play, just watch. He didn’t do anything. And he wasn’t playing at a very high level, either. All I know is he had one sack last year and it came against Austin Peay. You probably didn’t even know Austin Peay had a football team.”
When Poe announced in December that he was entering the NFL draft (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/12/24/dontari-poe-robert-turbin-declare-for-nfl-draft/), he said he’d been told he projected as a second-rounder who could move into the first round with a good Combine. Poe didn’t have a good Combine — he had a great Combine — and he started being discussed as a Top 5 pick.
So those who watched him bench press and run 40 yards in a straight line are more impressed than those who watched him play football. That’s not a good sign.