![]() ![]() One player from that mix that might be starting to emerge is Rutgers senior safety Saquan Hampton, who earns our Defensive Senior of the Week honors after his 10-tackle and 2 INT performance on the road at Wisconsin. This marks the first time all season where one of our Senior of the Week honorees came from a game that a member of the Senior Bowl scouting staff was in attendance. This year’s safety class is not heavy at the top, but there is a cluster of intriguing late-Day 2/early-Day 3 options that NFL teams will have to sort out and stack during the pre-draft process. With those numbers as a frame of reference, projecting Isabella to run a 4.30 or faster isn’t as crazy as it may have sounded when you read it in the previous paragraph.įans and draftniks could see Isabella’s speed up-close during Senior Bowl practices. ![]() Prior to last year’s draft, Ward ran a 4.32. ![]() 4 overall pick, Cleveland Browns rookie cornerback, Denzel Ward, with a time of 10.68. The person that finished third-place in that same race was last year’s No. Whereas Welker ran somewhere in the high-4.6 to low-4.7 range, we expect Isabella to possibly run a rare sub-4.30.ĭuring the fall evaluation process, when scouts don’t have verified 40-yard dash times on players, they usually dig into old documented high school track times.Īs a high school senior, Isabella won the 100-meter dash in the state of Ohio with a blistering time of 10.51. Like Welker, Isabella has that instant gear and rapid foot turnover to threaten vertically on his release, but the difference between the two is that Isabella will run significantly faster at the Combine than Welker did coming out of Texas Tech. The part of his game that reminds me most of Welker is his very good acceleration off the line of scrimmage. He is thick in his lower half, so powering thru press-man and second-level re-routes should not be a problem for him. Inside receivers get exposed to a significant amount of contact at the next level and they need to be sturdy enough to absorb and bounce off of it. Isabella was a running back in high school and he has that kind of build. When evaluating college slot receivers, the first place you have to start is the body type. After watching tape of Isabella this week, he has both the physical tools and the actual on-field skill-set to eventually become a similar level of NFL player as that accomplished Patriots trio. The seven years I spent in the Patriots scouting department provided me with unique background on the lineage of Patriots slot receivers, ranging from Troy Brown to Wes Welker to Julian Edelman. When it comes to UMass senior receiver Andy Isabella, who had eight catches for 303 yards and two TD in a 62-59 triple overtime win versus Liberty last Saturday, the easy thing for scouts to do will be to describe him as a “Patriots type” receiver.Īnd the scouts that use that comparison will not be wrong. One of the best ways for NFL scouts to paint a picture for decision-makers is by comparing a college player to someone they had previously scouted that made it in the league. Isabella, Hampton pick up week 10 honors OFFENSE
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