Who at the Senior Bowl drew Les Snead’s attention?

Another Senior Bowl has come and gone and you can be certain Los Angeles Rams General Manager Les Snead was monitoring closely. Since taking over in 2012, Snead has drafted 29 Senior Bowl participants and signed three others as undrafted rookies.

While the actual game may be a bit of a let down, the weigh-in’s and three workouts are an important part of the draft process. The draft status of invitees can be lowered or raised significantly by how well they perform under a microscope, and just as importantly, adjust on the fly when getting coached up on the side.

How do fans make heads or tails of the action without being there? Of course, you can sift through various videos and clips on Youtube, but some of the camera angles and distances make it hard to be sure of what is truly happening. I’m actually surprised that the committee that runs the game doesn’t do a better job of filming/marketing the workout filming for home draftniks.

Another way is to scour a search engine and read the dozens of reports from the sports media that have traveled to Mobile, Alabama to cover it in-person. Well, I did that, or at least as well as I could. What follows is a consensus of how the sports media and draft pundits have reported the week’s work.

It’s not simply a list of shout outs, if a pundit/site listed a player a riser, player of the day, overall winner, or other verbiage that denotes a full workout of good work, it was noted. After three days these are the players that had the consensus top showing. Of course, I have added some opinion to prime the discussion pump.

Already a well-known Day 2 prospect, most pundits think his showing vaulted him to the very top of cornerback rankings and is being considered a Round 1 player.

Even at a position of low draft value, his play sparked much Day 1 buzz. After being dominant in the first two workouts and considered “best of show”, he shut it down for the week with a strained hamstring.

Not a lot of college production in a workman-like offense, but just being from Michigan, you can believe he’s a top talent. Another “smallish” standout, but with all the stacks, motions, and four=wide NFL sets, slot receiver is no longer a limiting term.

Youngster plays fast and has a grip on route running. The prototype of today’s NFL slot receiver. The word often used about his play this past week was “uncoverable’”.