Tyler Booker received RG1 reps in practice

[Fla Cowpoke]

The tape shows a better than adequate pulling guard. Trust the tape over the combine. You will see him pulling and blowing up defenders and forget all those combine numbers. The game ain’t played on a track.

He also has long arms, which can make bench press difficult as well.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

Travis Frederick claimed that Smith had benched between 600 and 700 lbs, which would be amazing given his long arms.

 

[Acceptablename]

The tape shows a better than adequate pulling guard. Trust the tape over the combine. You will see him pulling and blowing up defenders and forget all those combine numbers. The game ain’t played on a track.

Yap

 

[Teague31]

rumor has it Jalen Carter submitted his retirement paperwork to the league office

 

[Spottswoode]

I mean he should hafta earn it, no?

He will have to earn it. I doubt anyone on the team is up in arms about who is getting RG1 snaps in May. If I were the coaches, I would want to see as much as I could of Booker as he is the real unknown of the two. Both will get plenty of opportunities to shine.

 

[Coogiguy03]

Well when you win the position during draft day, what is the point of playing charades?

You tell me

 

[DuncanIso]

Last year with Guyton - had him work his way up

glad to see big Mike gone.

He had some strange ideas.

 

[speedkilz88]

Let's hope so. Tyler Booker is good at straight blocking if he gets his big hands on you and iron grips you. But if you ask him to move side-to-side often...or pull much, that's when the problems may start. He also bench pressed 225 pounds only 21 times at the Combine. That is very weak for any Olineman coming out of college. That's not taking into effect his extremely slow 40 time of 5.38 seconds, the slowest time among all Olinemen at the Combine, and his 10 yard split of 1.96 seconds was also the slowest. Best not ignore these results or expect them to suddenly get drastically improved in a matter of months.

Travis Frederick says hello. The bench is not a good test of football strength. Rule of thumb that if a lineman has 20 or more he's been in a lifting program. Wisconsin where Frederick came from does not use the bench at all. That's why Frederick also lifted 21 reps. Frederick also ran much slower than 5.38. Both players show on tape that they can pull and hit a moving target. Testing wise its the 20 yd shuttle that should be looked at for guys in the trenches. Booker ran a 4.65 at his pro day which was what Tyler Smith ran.