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I did a search and was surprised cowboyjoe hadn't posted it yet. Hope I didn't miss it.
Tindal speeding toward Pro Day
Believe it or not, Kelton Tindal is trying to make himself faster.
Tindal, the former Sumter High School standout who won the 4A state title in the 100- and 400-meter dashes in 2006, is going to Columbia three days a week to work with Kevin Brown, a University of South Carolina track and field assistant coach who works with sprinters.
His goal? To be able to run the 40-yard dash somewhere between 4.1 and 4.2 seconds at the end of the month.
He's not doing it for his own satisfaction though. He's doing it to impress a group of stopwatch-yielding National Football League scouts, hoping that extra burst of speed will cause them to report to their respective front offices that they would be wise to use a draft pick on the Newberry College wide receiver in the NFL draft in April or, at the very least, sign him as a free agent and bring him to training camp.
"I've been working with Coach Brown and (USC wide receiver) Moe Brown (who is also eligible for the draft) to be at my best for the Pro Day on March 29," Tindal said on Wednesday. "I want to try and get in the 4.1s after I ran 4.22 last year."
Tindal, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 197, posted that number at a Pro Junior Day at Newberry last year. He ran in front of a group of scouts with hand-held stopwatches who combined the times they recorded and came up with an average of 4.22.
Tindal will take part in Newberry's Pro Day on March 29 along with a few of his teammates. Along with the 40, he will do the 3-cone shuttle , the L drill, record his vertical jump, run typical pass routes and see how many times he can bench press 225 pounds.
After that, Tindal hopes to have the attention of some of the scouts.
"I hope I will hear some people who will want me to do individual workouts," Tindal said. "They'll fly me in where they (the organizations' front office brass) can take a look at me."
Tindal certainly had the attention of some NFL scouts after his standout junior season at Newberry, when he caught 39 passes for 745 yards and six touchdowns. That led to him being named the D2Football.com South Atlantic Conference Preseason Offensive Player of the Year, a second-team Preseason All-American and an All-SAC first team wide receiver.
While he had good numbers as a senior -- 33 receptions for 437 yards and four touchdowns - the year wasn't what he anticipated. However, Tindal was chosen to play in an all-star game - the Pro Football Hall of Fame Texas vs. The Nation Challenge in El Paso, Texas, last month - and he thinks he bettered himself in the eyes of the scouts in that game.
Although Tindal had just one catch, it went for 55 yards, coming from former Louisiana State quarterback Ryan Perrilloux, now of Jacksonville State.
"Actually, I think I did pretty well," said Tindal, who finished his career at Newberry with 116 receptions for 1,898 yards and 16 touchdowns. "I had gotten behind my defender by about seven to 10 yards, and then I had to adjust to the ball and go get it at its highest point.
"That catch did all three things that the scouts are looking at," he added. "It showed I could run, it showed me adjusting to the ball and it showed me going up to get it."
Tindal speeding toward Pro Day
Believe it or not, Kelton Tindal is trying to make himself faster.
Tindal, the former Sumter High School standout who won the 4A state title in the 100- and 400-meter dashes in 2006, is going to Columbia three days a week to work with Kevin Brown, a University of South Carolina track and field assistant coach who works with sprinters.
His goal? To be able to run the 40-yard dash somewhere between 4.1 and 4.2 seconds at the end of the month.
He's not doing it for his own satisfaction though. He's doing it to impress a group of stopwatch-yielding National Football League scouts, hoping that extra burst of speed will cause them to report to their respective front offices that they would be wise to use a draft pick on the Newberry College wide receiver in the NFL draft in April or, at the very least, sign him as a free agent and bring him to training camp.
"I've been working with Coach Brown and (USC wide receiver) Moe Brown (who is also eligible for the draft) to be at my best for the Pro Day on March 29," Tindal said on Wednesday. "I want to try and get in the 4.1s after I ran 4.22 last year."
Tindal, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 197, posted that number at a Pro Junior Day at Newberry last year. He ran in front of a group of scouts with hand-held stopwatches who combined the times they recorded and came up with an average of 4.22.
Tindal will take part in Newberry's Pro Day on March 29 along with a few of his teammates. Along with the 40, he will do the 3-cone shuttle , the L drill, record his vertical jump, run typical pass routes and see how many times he can bench press 225 pounds.
After that, Tindal hopes to have the attention of some of the scouts.
"I hope I will hear some people who will want me to do individual workouts," Tindal said. "They'll fly me in where they (the organizations' front office brass) can take a look at me."
Tindal certainly had the attention of some NFL scouts after his standout junior season at Newberry, when he caught 39 passes for 745 yards and six touchdowns. That led to him being named the D2Football.com South Atlantic Conference Preseason Offensive Player of the Year, a second-team Preseason All-American and an All-SAC first team wide receiver.
While he had good numbers as a senior -- 33 receptions for 437 yards and four touchdowns - the year wasn't what he anticipated. However, Tindal was chosen to play in an all-star game - the Pro Football Hall of Fame Texas vs. The Nation Challenge in El Paso, Texas, last month - and he thinks he bettered himself in the eyes of the scouts in that game.
Although Tindal had just one catch, it went for 55 yards, coming from former Louisiana State quarterback Ryan Perrilloux, now of Jacksonville State.
"Actually, I think I did pretty well," said Tindal, who finished his career at Newberry with 116 receptions for 1,898 yards and 16 touchdowns. "I had gotten behind my defender by about seven to 10 yards, and then I had to adjust to the ball and go get it at its highest point.
"That catch did all three things that the scouts are looking at," he added. "It showed I could run, it showed me adjusting to the ball and it showed me going up to get it."
