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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.wide reciever looks like a position of interest we all think defense so they will probably draft 2 o types, they surprise us every year and i suspect this wont be different, as long as we get good players who contribute , we should be happyThe Patriots have planned Gillette Stadium visits for South Carolina WR Sidney Rice and Washington QB/ATH Isaiah Stanback.
Rice is a potential first-round pick with outstanding tools who left Columbia after his redshirt sophomore season. At the combine, the Game**** checked in a shade under 6-foot-4 and at 200 pounds even, while clocking a 4.57 in the 40-yard dash. He improved on that time with a 4.51 at his Pro Day. In Steve Spurrier’s offense, he became the first South Carolina receiver to record back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons and, while he certainly needs polish, he may be the kind of athlete the Patriots feel they can mold. Remember that the Patriots had success with Spurrier receivers Reche Caldwell and Jabar Gaffney where others didn’t.
Stanback, meanwhile, was a two-sport athlete for the Huskies, playing football and running track. He threw for 1,325 yards, 10 touchdowns and three picks, and rushed for 350 yards, before suffering a lisfranc (foot) injury in the season’s eighth game. Fast enough to be a sprinter at UW — though his injury kept him for running at the combine — Stanback is open to the idea of playing receiver. He could serve in that role, and develop behind Matt Cassel in reserve of Tom Brady.
“I’m very open but I definitely want the opportunity to play quarterback,” Stanback said at the Combine. “That is one thing I really want to push for but I’m not going to be closed-minded and against it. I’m a team guy.”
QUICK HITS: According to those around the program, the Patriots have had close contact with Ohio State RB Antonio Pittman and WR Anthony Gonzalez. The team is said to be taking a very keen interest in Gonzalez, a strong character player with a polished game. Also, the team sent offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels to Texas recently to privately work out Houston QB Kevin Kolb. The interest in Kolb and Stanback may signal the team looking for a younger option as a third quarterback, with Cassel entrenched at No. 2.
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/patriots/?p=1078
PV = Private Visit
- QB/ATH Isaiah Stanback - PV (#148 R4-5)
- QB Kevin Kolb - PW (#124 R4)
- RB Lorenzo Booker - PW (#97 R3)
- RB Michael Bush - PV (#83 R3)
- WR Chris Davis - PW (#114 R3-4)
- WR Courtney Taylor - PW (#86 R3)
- WR Robert Meachem - PV (#16 R1)
- WR Sidney Rice - PV (#42 R2)
- TE Joe Newton - PV (#132 R4)
- OT Joe Staley - PW (#41 R1-2)
- CB Usama Young - PW
- CB Leon Hall - PW/PV (#9 R1)
- CB Josh Wilson - PV (#67 R2-3)
- FS Reggie Nelson - PW (#20 R1)
- FS Brandon Meriweather - PW (#33 R1-2)
- ILB David Harris - PW/PV (#66 R2-3)
- OLB Jon Beason - PW/PV (#37 R1-2)
- OLB Lawrence Timmons - PW (#23 R1)
- OLB Earl Everett - PW (#99 R3-4)
- OLB Stewart Bradley - PW (#77 R3)
- OLB Rufus Alexander - PW (#52 R2)
- DE/OLB LaMarr Woodley - PW (#44 R2)
- DE Adam Carriker - PW (#18 R1)
- DE Jay Moore - PW (#144 R4-5)
- DE/OLB Anthony Spencer - PV (#29 R1-2)
PW = Private Workout
I'll ask the dumb question for someone who keeps track of this stuff.
Of the players BB has drafted in the early rounds; how many did he bring in for these visits? Is it a smoke screen or general interest.
I'm sure our scouts have seen these players before.
You're missing some guys.
Pope was interviewed on Sirius NFL Radio and said he's going to workout for the Pats this Tuesday. According to NFLdraftscout.com he can run a 4.28. Kirwan said he's impressed by the "chip on [Pope's] shoulder" (being from a small school and the perception that he's being ignored because of it) and to his credit Pope never goofed and sounded intelligent.
Pope said he did a 100 question quiz by the Colts earlier. He hasn't done the wonderlic and he wasn't invited to the combine. Antoine Bethea went the the same school, was drafted late last year, and had major success with the Colts as he was their starting SS. Bethea earned a $230,000 bonus from the NFL. Bethea was at Pope's pro day workout to "give support."
Does anybody know anything about this kid?
Sounds like an interesting developmental type of prospect to draft on late day 2...
Reiss is reporting East Carolina WR Andrae Ellison was in for a visit.