Could Beanie Wells slide out of first round?
Before breaking down the can't miss events of the weekend, including the NFL Combine and a massive ACC hoops battle...
At the end of the college football season, Ohio State RB Chris Wells was projected to be a top-10 pick by many a pundit following his back-to-back 1000+ yards campaigns and 30 career touchdowns with the Buckeyes. Yet, with the NFL combine upon us - and the draft just two months away – Wells is now being projected into the bottom half of the round and based on team needs and other projected moves, could the bruising back slip completely out of the first round?
Calm down Buckeye Nation, hear me out before hyperventilating (besides, he is not the only Buckeye dropping on draft boards. In addition and for the record, I did not attend Michigan, though I did stay at an Ann Arbor Holiday Inn once). “Beanie” is still rated as no less than the second running back on most boards, behind Georgia’s Knowshon Moreno and ahead of Pittsburgh’s LeSean McCoy and Iowa’s Shonn Greene, among others and there a many factors that could keep Wells among the top-32 selected.
Alex Smith, your phone is ringing.
He started every game his sophomore year and was an uninjured freshman behind Pittman who still appeared in every regular season game in 2006. When did he miss all of these games to injury? 12 (regular season) games played in 2006, 12 games in 2007... if he missed multiple games, how many regular season games do you think OSU played those years?