The Worst Performances at the 2018 NFL Combine

Celebrating diversity means touting the very fast and the very slow; the strong and the weak; the great leapers and the extremely earthbound. Does it not?

Here are the worst performances from the 2018 NFL combine. They all tried.

40-yard dash

Worst time: 5.85 seconds

Player: Orlando Brown, OL, Oklahoma

Will it hurt his draft stock?: Probably. Brown was expected to be selected in the 1st Round before the combine, but his stock has quickly fallen to the middle rounds. In fact, Brown placed first in the Stock Fall at the combine with a time of 5.85 seconds.

Bench

Lowest number of reps: 4

Player: Jordan Thomas, DB, Oklahoma

Will it hurt his draft stock?: Yeah, probably. Four reps is pretty bad. The silver lining is Brown and Thomas prove that if you are very slow and/or quite weak, you have a chance of playing Division I college football for the Oklahoma Sooners. #blessed #squadgoals

Vertical leap

Shortest jump: 19.5 inches

Player: Orlando Brown, OL, Oklahoma

Will it hurt his draft stock?: Not at all. Brown is 6-foot-8 but NFL teams will love his commitment to football as he clearly has no shot at playing in the NBA.

Broad jump

Shortest jump: 82.0 inches

Player: Orlando Brown, OL, Oklahoma

Will it hurt his draft stock?: Well, this is getting kind of depressing now. A Brown continuing to suck at a football thing is a little too on-the-nose, don’t you think? The NFL needs new writers.

3-cone drill

Worst time: 8.32 seconds

Player: Jamarco Jones, OL, Ohio State

Will it hurt his draft stock?: Without a doubt. Name me one offensive line star who didn’t put up a blistering 3-cone drill time. You can’t.

20-yard shuttle run

Worst time: 5.38 seconds

Player(s): tie between Orlando Brown and Toby Weathersby, OL, LSU

Will it hurt their draft stock?: No. Teams that want a plodding, ball control offense should be looking to draft both Brown and Weathersby for their offensive line. There will be no chance of getting pulled into a run-and-gun game.

60-yard shuttle run

Worst time: 12.79 seconds

Player: Ola Adeniyi, DL, Toledo

Will it hurt his draft stock?: Probably. But it’s not fair that the NFL doesn’t test at the combine for MACtion. Adeniyi would have done very well in that.