Catching Up with the Chiefs at the NFL Combine

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The NFL Combine enters its third day today and you can check out coverage of it from 10 AM CT to 1 PM CT at NFL.com. They've apparently got five different streams going on covering the offensive linemen workouts today: NFL Network coverage, the 40-yard dash, jumps, shuttles and press conferences. I believe that coverage of the o-linemen will show  the 40-yard dash, 3-cone drill, 20-yard and 60-yard shuttles, bench press, vertical jump and broad jump.

On Thursday, we posted a bit of combine coverage about what some of the offensive linemen (they arrived first) were saying about the Kansas City Chiefs in their press conferences. Nothing too revealing there and the early combine info never really is too substantive.

Here is the schedule for the last two days, courtesy of The Sporting News, so you can get caught up on what's going on:

As you can see, Thursday is a pretty slow day in Indianapolis. Friday kicked up a lot, with the quarterbacks and wide recievers taking a lot of the questions.

USC QB Mark Sanchez had this to say about how thinks he would fit in a pro style, spread offense like the Chiefs ran last year:

I think the pro-style offense would obviously be a better transition for me. But whatever the team needs, I’m prepared to learn that and I think going through a pro-style offense I think that puts the most on the quarterback, the most responsibility at the line of scrimmage with protections and progressions. So I don’t think anything else could be… while it will take time to learn, I don’t think it will be more difficult.

LSU WR Demetrius Byrd was asked about the Chiefs and LSU players:

I talk to Bowe all the time. We’re real good friends. We stay in the same neighborhood. I don’t why but I think Kansas city just loves some Tigers. I talked to him at Willis McGahee’s flag-football thing in Miami. We talked about it. He was like, Oh, man, I wish we could get you here. You’d like the offense. Me on one side and you on the other.

I highly suggest heading over to NFL.com's Combine coverage, which is quite excellent. There hasn't been a ton of "news" per se since the combine started. It should pick up today with a lot of players working out. Here is the schedule for today:

Offensive linemen & tight ends: Workouts (40, 3-cone drill, 20-yard and 60-yard shuttles, bench press, vertical jump, broad jump).

Quarterbacks, wide receivers & running backs: NFLPA meeting, Wonderlic Test, interviews with NFL team personnel.

Defensive linemen & linebackers: Measurements (height, weight, arms, hands), physical exams, Wonderlic Test, interviews with NFL team personnel.

Cornerbacks & safeties: Prephysical exams and X-rays, interviews with NFL team personnel.

I leave you with a Bob Gretz quote from yesterday:

What’s important to know is that participation, or even success at the Combine guarantees nothing. Over the last five years for instance, there have been an average of 35 players selected in each Draft that were not invited to the Combine. Almost all of those players were selected in the later rounds, but the point is this: the NFL found them, and they got their chance.

We'll update you throughout the day with the important combine news.