Sunday’s NFL Scouting Combine workout started with really big men -- defensive linemen -- running really fast 40-yard dashes.
Ohio State’s Joey Bosa, one of the draft’s top players and a candidate to go No. 1 overall, posted unofficial 40 times of 4.87 and 4.89. That’s pretty fast for a player who measured 6-foot-5, 269 pounds earlier in the week, but Bosa told NFL Network on-field reporter Kim Jones he was disappointed in his times and had expected to run in the 4.7 range.
Bosa also said he planned to participate in some linebacker drills later in the workout to show off his athleticism. He was almost exclusively an up-the-field pass rusher in his college career.
NFL scouts have seen Bosa dominate in big games. Probably the most important thing he needed to accomplish at the Combine was to discuss with teams the one-game suspension he served to start last season. Bosa wouldn’t discuss the reason for the suspension with the media but said he looked forward to talking about it in private interviews with teams.
