Shaq Thompson

BallSacked

Not a great combine.

4.72 40 and 33inch vertical.

Shelton has been raved about though.

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Maybe if he would have laid off the Dick's burgers

NeGgaPlEaSe

Da Fuq? Looks like Peters is a better prospect and Shaq drops to second or 3rd round. I'm not drafting a slow undersized WIL who should have played safety in college.

haie

I was much more impressed with Shaq at runningback than at linebacker. A 4.72 isn't as big of a deal if you have great vision from a rb perspective, than when you are being asked to run sideline to sideline against a spread.

BallSacked

4.72 at RB is a big deal.

HTH

haie

BallSacked said:

4.72 at RB is a big deal.

HTH

I'm talking about his performance in college. Yes, that is slow as fuck in the NFL. There were times in college when defenses knew exactly who it was going to and what direction, and he could still get the yards and more.

NeGgaPlEaSe

Myles Jack looked better on both sides of the ball. Would have given a left nut to have him and Budda in the backfield with Mora as the coach

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chuck

I thought he'd run a little better than that but I didn't expect any 4.5 times out of him. There's a reason he was immediately moved to linebacker. Big safeties are great, but there are reasons they are rare, the main one being that people want fast safeties.

He does flash pretty damn good speed on the field when he needs to though. He'll be fine in the NFL but running slow at the combine is all it takes to hurt your draft position.

CokeGreaterThanPepsi

Official time for Shaq was 4.64, .04 slower than Laveon Bell

NeGgaPlEaSe

4.6 is about where I thought he would be. I'm sure his pro day will be much better, 4.5-4.6. He may be a better athlete with cleats and pads, but that vertical is disturbing

dnc

CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:

Official time for Shaq was 4.64, .04 slower than Laveon Bell

LeVeon Bell was a fat fuck when he was at the combine.

His 40 is at least a tenth faster than that now, probably more.

Tequilla

I'd rather have someone quick with instincts than someone that can run a straight line ...

From what I saw from Shaq, looked fine to me.

NeGgaPlEaSe

Tequilla said:

I'd rather have someone quick with instincts than someone that can run a straight line ...

From what I saw from Shaq, looked fine to me.

Actually he disappeared a lot

Tequilla

I was busy watching hips ...

He looked like he had loose hips ...

Most of the guys looked like they had stiff hips

RoadDawg55

4.64 isn't bad. He will probably run in the 4.5's at Pro Day.

Shaq's best defensive skill is being able to do something with the ball once he gets it. Other than that, he was a pretty average LB.

He will have a nice career, but I wouldn't want him as a first round pick and I don't think he will be a Pro Bowler.

BallSacked

Agree on avg LB. At the time I said it was ridiculous that Shaq got 1st team LB over the Butkus winner and so many vaginas here got sandy.

I think his best position is actually RB.

NeGgaPlEaSe

Something doesn't look right with him on his combine video's besides the obvious weight gain making him slow. A thumper Strong Safety and Dime LB playing at 220lb in a great defense he could excel

CuntWaffle

Ehhhh I wouldn't look too hard into combine results.

RoadDawg55

BallSacked said:

Agree on avg LB. At the time I said it was ridiculous that Shaq got 1st team LB over the Butkus winner and so many vaginas here got sandy.

I think his best position is actually RB.

Shaq had like 4 or 5 defensive TD's. He deserved first team solely from that.

Tequilla

You might give up a little bit with Shaq on a down by down situation ... but what you give up you get back in his ability to make big plays and create turnovers.

As the game moves more in the direction of requiring LBs to be able to play in space and defend athletic WRs and TEs in space, the more you need the skillset that Shaq has playing the LB position than you need his ability to scrape off of blockers in the 3-4 yard and a cloud of dust type offenses.