Winner: Haason Reddick, linebacker, Temple
Haason Reddick spent the past three seasons at Temple chasing down quarterbacks as a defensive end.
He’ll still have a chance to do that in the NFL, but he’s likely not going to make his living on the edge. Rather, the 6-foot-1, 234-pound defender projects best as an inside linebacker at the NFL level. Blessed with elite speed and agility, Reddick is going to be a monster operating in space and attacking the football.
Sunday, he blew scouts away both in the measurables portion of his workout and on the field doing drills.
Running with defensive linemen, since that was his position in college, Reddick posted the fastest 40 time of anyone (4.52 seconds), had the third-highest vertical (36.5 inches), the longest broad jump (133 inches) and was just outside the top five in the three-cone drill, which tests short-area burst and agility.
A guy who was pretty much a lock as a late-first rounder heading into the combine, Reddick could see himself called to the podium in Philadelphia this April in the top half of Round 1.