The second day of testing at the NFL Scouting Combine was a good one. The defensive backs and tight ends took to the field and Cowboys fans had eyes firmly fixed on the cornerbacks and safeties. So let\u2019s get into the risers and fallers from the second day of testing.<\/p>\n
Daylen Everette, CB, Georgia<\/p>\n
Everette checked every box for an NFL outside corner. He ran a 4.38s 40-yard time and jumped 37\u00bd\u201d in the vertical leap, earning a 9.92 Relative Athletic Score (RAS). The on-field session matched the tape with a very smooth pedal, confident agility, and he consistently extended away from his frame to finish catches on the gauntlet. The big thing was the functional athleticism, he didn\u2019t just test well, he looked like he could play top-down coverage in the NFL without panic.<\/p>\n
Chris Johnson, CB, San Diego State This one was the most impressive overall corner workout, and Johnson needed it coming from a small school. He registered a 4.40s forty time with a 38\u201d vertical, then in drills he was the cleanest mover. He showed the smoothest backpedal, a sharp plant-and-drive, and easy transitions that showed he could turn on a dime. There were a couple of double-catches out there, but the movement and control looked like an every-down corner who can survive easily at the next level.<\/p>\n
Toriano Pride Jr., CB, Missouri<\/p>\n
The headline is the blazing 4.32s forty time, plus a 37\u00bd\u201d vertical and 10\u20198\u201d broad jump, but the story was his competitiveness during the field work. Early during the workouts he did have some hiccups, then he settled in and started stacking cleaner finishes. Teams love when a guy corrects on the fly in a scripted setting.<\/p>\n
The measurements killed any size nitpicks and the testing was nuclear. Sadiq blasted a 4.39s forty time, registered a 43\u00bd\u201d vertical jump, along with a massive 11\u20191\u201d broad jump, all in the 99th percentile. He didn\u2019t do the catching drills, which matters because of the dropped passes in 2025, but he left the Combine proving he\u2019s a seam-bender unicorn. Pro days are important now to show the catching skills off to raise that stock some more.<\/p>\n
Dillon Thieneman, S, Oregon<\/p>\n
This is a name Cowboys fans need to know and he delivered a complete first-round safety workout. He registered an elite 9.67 RAS thanks to a 41\u201d vertical jump, 10\u20195\u201d broad jump, and a blazing 4.35s forty time with a 1.52s 10-yard split. On the field he showed fantastic change-of-direction skills for his build, and displayed clean hands even on throws outside his frame. When a safety is both explosive and clean technically, it\u2019s hard to poke holes.<\/p>\n
D\u2019Angelo Ponds, CB, Indiana<\/p>\n
The combine gave everyone the why behind his tape. There\u2019s no getting away from the fact he\u2019s small and measured just under 5\u20199\u201d and 182 pound, but the explosiveness is real. He led all the corners with an insane 43\u00bd\u201d vertical jump. He\u2019s not for every scheme outside, but the movement and explosion combination he showed in Indianapolis makes him a very real role player instead of a nice college story.<\/p>\n
Davison Igbinosun, CB, Ohio State <\/p>\n
The measurements were all good and what you want, but the workout didn\u2019t translate. The jumps were an issue with a 34\u201d vertical jump and 10\u201d broad jump, both not very reassuring. Then the on-field reps were where it hurt. The movement looked off with stiff hips, and he struggled to locate and adjust to the ball when put under stress. That\u2019s the exact set of issues you can\u2019t hide in the NFL.<\/p>\n
Emmanuel McNeil-Warren, S, Toledo <\/p>\n
This one is tough as it wasn\u2019t exactly bad, just that he didn\u2019t pop as much as the guys around him, meaning his ranking will fall with some scouts. He ran a 4.52s forty time, had a 35\u00bd\u201d vertical jump, and a 10\u20192\u201d broad jump, all are fine and not bad. The on field drills again were fine, but his workout stopped popping by comparison to the other safeties. Add a few moments where he failed to finish drills cleanly, and the day reads like a good player, but didn\u2019t separate.<\/p>\n
Miles Kitselman, TE, Tennessee<\/p>\n
Kitselman had the roughest tight end testing getting a poor 5.83 RAS after he ran a 4.90s forty time (34th percentile), the worst broad jump in the class at 9\u201d, and a bottom-tier vertical jump at 34\u00bd\u201d. The drills didn\u2019t rescue him either, he looked labored and didn\u2019t catch cleanly to offset the athletic deficit. This kind of day may have shifted him from being a draftable TE3 to camp competition guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second day of testing at the NFL Scouting Combine was a good one. The defensive backs and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,437,2461,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-784061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys-draft","12":"tag-dallascowboys","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116153183463837528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}