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Calvin Pryor: Combine Results and Instant Reaction

February 26, 2014   ·     ·   Jump to comments

In the eyes of most draftniks and scouts, it was a two-horse race for the the title of top safety in the 2014 NFL draft entering the scouting combine in Indianapolis.
Louisville's Calvin Pryor was one those candidates, and while Pryor didn't exactly blow the roof off of Lucas Oil Stadium in Tuesday's workouts, the 5'11", 207-pounder also didn't lose any ground in the race for No. 1 to Alabama's Ha Ha Clinton-Dix.
After checking into Indy quite a bit shorter than advertised, Pryor put up 18 reps of 225 pounds in the bench press, fourth among safeties.
However, the bench press ranks pretty low on the totem pole where defensive backs are concerned, and it was Tuesday's workouts where scouts really wanted to see Pryor and Clinton-Dix side-by-side.
During an appearance on the Kellogg's Komments podcast earlier this month (which I co-host), Pryor didn't mince words when asked which of the drills at the combine he thought were most important to his draft stock:
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