Gator Hoskins will make the team as C Clays backup?

[Sirspud]

Egnew's 40 time was 4.62 seconds (3rd best TE in his Combine). Lynch and Sims ran 4.75, while Miller ran 4.85 seconds. You may also be surprised that Egnew excelled in the vertical jump (=1st), the broad jump (1st - he jumped a record 10'11" - he still holds the TE record jump by 3") and the other events (3 cone drill he finished 3rd, 60 yard shuttle, 3rd). While the Big Schlong is best remembered for his Hard Knocks near tearful appearance, most fans forget that he had an incredible 2012 Draft Combine and that meant a lot to Ireland.
I stand by my earlier statement that Egnew is the most athletic of the four.

I don't care how he measured, he moves like a slug on the football field. Ronnie Brown had electric speed at the combine, and he never once moved half that fast on the field.

 

[Mogwai]

Mogwai - I respect your opinion. So I'm very interested to hear that you're excited about Gator. Did you get the opportunity to see much of his college football? He sounds very good, how the hell did he go undrafted? Welcome feedback...

Hey Spike, unfortunately I'm forced to watch a lot of C-USA because of friendships I have here in sfl. So I saw him last year against FAU and FIU. When watching smaller schools the players who have physical advantages stand out dramatically. Gator had that presence on the field. Against FAU he had several big plays that displayed a playmaking ability that I remember made me save his name away then against FIU he just completely blew up. Strange thing is I forgot about him until we drafted him. Then I got progressively more excited as I looked up more of the footage on him and I saw the dramatic physical evolution he went through. Which displays to me that he's a worker dedicated to improving himself and has an innate playmaking ability which I was able to see firsthand.

Everything about him points up. He slipped in the draft because he's a tweener who's undersized and ran dramatically slower at the combine than he has in the past at private workouts. That's how cracks form in how scouts evaluate talent and why so many successful NFL players manage to slip through them. I think we got a damn good player capable of improving. It may take him a year, but he's for real.

 

[phinking]

Charles Clay lines up at the TE, FB, H-back, and ever split wide as a receiver at times seems like the only other player that can do that is Hoskins. So on that alone I think he'll make the team.

When I saw him at Marshall, I thought he had a little Dustin Keller in him.