In the NFL Scouting Combine 2024, all major college players gathered to measure and perform for their potential future NFL employers.
Many achieved excellence and boosted their stock. These players will undoubtedly be drafted highly in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft. Others, however, did not perform nearly as well, which will only serve to hurt their stock.
NFL Scouting Combine 2024 Falling Stock: Keon Coleman, FSU WR
Keon Coleman was believed by many to potentially be a candidate to join the seven round one potential Wide Receivers in this year’s NFL Draft, tying a record set in 2004. Coleman, however, failed to impress at the NFL Scouting Combine 2024.
He ran a 4.61 40-yard dash, enough to be the slowest of all of his fellow Wide Recievers who elected to take time. On the contrary, he did turn in impressive performances in the remaining drills he ran at the 2024 NFL Scouting Combine.
Coleman may not longer be a round 1 candidate, but he will still be able to be drafted in the second day of the 2024 NFL Draft.
NFL Scouting Combine 2024 Falling Stock #2: Ennis Rakestraw Jr., Missouri CB
Quinyon Mitchell stole the show at both the Senior Bowl and 2024 NFL Scouting Combine. Ennis Rakestraw Jr., by comparison, did not. Rakestraw was only able to run a 4.51 40 time, much slower than Mitchell by comparison, one of the pieces of criticism levied against him by critics and scouts. He also weighed in at a rather astonishingly low 183 pounds. By most counts, Rakestraw appears to be at a disadvantage compared to what would be expected of a defensive back.
Even still, Rakestraw should have no problems being drafted no later than early in Day 2 of the 2024 NFL Draft.
NFL Scouting Combine 2024 Falling Stock #3: Ja’Tavion Sanders, Texas TE
Compared to his much more successful teammates in both Xavier Worthy and Adonai Mitchell, Ja’Tavion Sanders turned a performance that confirmed the belief that Georgia’s Brock Bowers is the only Round 1 caliber Tight End in this class.
Once he arrived in Indianapolis for the 2024 NFL Scouting Combine, Sanders could only turn in a rather average 40 yard dash time of 4.69. While not the worst by far for his position, Sanders had decidedly failed to turn any heads and offer real competition to Bowers.
Sanders may not even be selected in the second round, after a while of speculation that he could give Bowers a run for his money, given how his fellow compatriots at the position turned in arguably better performances than him.
NFL Scouting Combine 2024 Falling Stock #4: Kool-Aid McKinstry & Nate Wiggins, Alabama and Clemson CBs
To be absolutely clear, neither of these men performed poorly at the combine. What befell both McKinstry and Wiggins were injuries, both discovered in pre-combine medical checks, or in the case of Wiggins, during his 40 yard dash.
McKinstry arrived in Indianapolis hobbled by the discovery of a Jones Fracture in his foot. Wiggins turned in an even faster 40 yard dash time than Quinyon Mitchell could, at a 4.29, but injured his groin after completing the attempt.
Even so, both Wiggins and McKinstry should still be able to be highly drafted regardless of their injuries.