I still don’t understand how we only get two invites when we have an all America edge guy and the all time leading tackler of our program don’t get invited, not even mentioning a good saftey and corner who were also deserving.
simple, the combine is about the eye ball test and none of those players project well based upon physical appearance. boesen in college was an undersized de, howard was an undersized linebacker and in all honesty he projects to average sized at best nfl safety wo knowledge of his ability to cover as a true safety, orr was a smaller safety, and texada was a smaller corner with some health issues.
doesn't mean they can't play football, but the combine is about height, weight, physical tests, etc.......they all will get a chance to test at tcu's pro day and at that time patterson and his staff will get a chance to sell the strengths of the various players.
some will require some projection. boesen might need to project to a olb/stand up de which means the ability to drop in coverage. at tcu's pro day he would get time to work in those drills where at the combine he won't.
the interesting thing about last year's team is a number of the guys who project favorably to the nfl are coming back