Vinny Cerrato talks Combine Strategy

Does anyone know how Malcolm Kelly performed in the combine last year? By all accounts, he was a great college player. But, we’ve also heard that he had a fairly obvious and serious knee injury. How was that taken into account by the Redskins’ evaluators in general and Cerrato in particular?

Anyone have the combine numbrs on Devin Thomas?

The quote about Davis is shocking. Cerrato is really using a player who barely saw the field last year as a reference point for how he evaluates talent. Comments like that are startlingly obtuse. Does he really believe that Fred Davis can be classified, at this point anyway, as a good selection?

And while he again sounded like an idiot, once you cleared the stupidity what he had to say made sense. Watching game film of a player is more important than what they can accomplish in one week while being evaluated.
I don’t get all the “draft bust” talk about Thomas, Kelly and Davis, these guys were the drafted in the second round, came to camp unprepared for an NFL season, while non have shown anything significant on the field I will not regard them as poor picks until after the 2009 and possibly 2010 seasons.
The Redskins are blasted about letting Superbowl champ Ryan Clark leave, but before he was a Redskins he was released by the Giants, players don’t come out and become successes immediatly in the NFL all the time. If Thomas and Kelly both develop and stay healthy it will be a great draft, even if only one develops into a number 1 reciever the 2008 draft will be viewed as succesful.
I believe the Redskins will do everything possible to get out of the 13th spot for more draft picks, which also equates to better salaries for players who could become stars. How do the jets feel about the 15M they gave to Vernon in 2008, he could become a good player but the 15M upfront should have meant he was a great player in 2008…Thomas and Kelly as 2nd round picks have a least the 2009 season before we call them busts…