Emanuel Hall – Noteworthy
As Emanuel Hall finished his workouts Saturday at the NFL Combine, the consensus was that he helped his draft stock after performing well in his limited events. On Monday, Hall’s stock is in question again. The former Missouri wide receiver was diagnosed with a potential sports hernia by doctors at the combine and will seek other opinions from medical professionals, according to a report from The Draft Network LLC. Surgery would sideline Hall for roughly four to six weeks.
The report adds that doctors didn’t want Hall to participate in any events at the combine, but the 6-foot-3 wideout managed to talk them into letting him run the 40-yard dash, the broad jump and the vertical jump. Hall has been nursing a groin injury since September and told reporters on Friday that he was feeling “80-90 percent” with it. He missed four games with MU in 2018 and said he didn’t help heal the injury when he returned in November for the Tigers’ final games of the season. Despite the injury, Hall broke the combine record for wideouts in the broad jump with an 11-foot-9 leap and ran a 4.39-second 40-yard dash. When healthy, Hall, a track star in high school who was courted by national powers like Oregon, can run a 4.30 or better. Hall’s 43.5-inch vertical jump tied for the lead at his position. – Kansas City Star
Emanuel Hall – Noteworthy
Emanuel Hall told reporters at the NFL Scouting Combine on Friday in Indianapolis that his groin still wasn’t 100 percent healed from a nagging injury that dogged him throughout his senior season at Missouri. Hall still wowed scouts with his combine results Saturday. The wide receiver from Nashville recorded the second-longest broad jump in NFL Combine history with a leap of 11 feet, 9 inches. It’s the longest jump by a wide receiver ever at the event and second overall only to Byron Jones’ jump of 12-3 in 2015, which set a world record.
Later in the day, Hall ran the 40-yard dash in 4.38 seconds, the sixth-fastest time by a receiver at this year’s combine. (Thirty-seven receivers ran the 40 on Saturday.) He also leapt 43 ½ inches in the vertical jump, tied for the highest among receivers. Friday, he did 15 reps of 225 pounds on the bench press, tied for 15th-most out of 42 receivers that participated. He was measured Friday at 6-foot-1 ? and 201 pounds with a 79 ?-inch wingspan. Hall’s physical traits were one of the strengths in his draft profile going into the weekend. – Columbia Daily Tribune
Kelly Bryant – Noteworthy
Kelly Bryant’s first practice as Missouri’s quarterback was, mercifully, inside the Dan Devine Pavilion and away from the bitter cold and snow that originally kept him from wanting to ever take a visit to Columbia. Sunday, wintry as it was, happened to be the Tigers’ first day of spring practice. There was Bryant, despite the cold, No. 7 in a gold practice jersey, leading Missouri’s first practice without Drew Lock since spring 2015 like he’d been there all along. Bryant and his roommate, wide receiver Jonathan Nance, did have to push Nance’s car out of the driveway through the snow Sunday morning. But the rest of the day went pretty well.
“First day in the office, you know, I was really surprised. He was really calm, collected. Just like, ‘Alright guys, let’s go to work,’” center Trystan Colon-Castillo said. “Came in the huddle, told us the play, ‘Ready, break.’ … No stuttering, no jitters, nothing. Just leading.” Bryant’s personality has already been on display around his teammates for around a month. A picture of the man has started to emerge. For example: The native of Calhoun Falls, South Carolina, loves cereal. He brings his own box to breakfast at the Mizzou Athletic Training Complex cafeteria every day. Rarely does the same box make an appearance two days in a row. Bryant is also a PlayStation brand loyalist, which puts him at odds with a few of his teammates – like Castillo – who play Xbox instead. – Columbia Daily Tribune