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With the Oregon State football team holding its annual pro day on Thursday afternoon, BeaversEdge.com gives you the complete breakdown of the results...
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With representatives from 30 NFL teams in attendance, a group of seven Beavers participated in Oregon State’s annual pro day at the Valley Sports Performance Center and the Truax Indoor Center. The Beavers that participated were:
RB BJ Baylor
WR Trevon Bradford
DB Elijah Jones
OLB Andrzej Hughes-Murray
OL Nous Keobounnam
ILB Avery Roberts
TE Teagan Quitoriano
Baylor, Bradford, Hughes-Murray, and Jones participated in every drill offered, which started out inside the Valley Sports Performance center with bench and vertical, before transitioning to the field portion for long jump, 20-yard shuttle, 40-yard dash, three-cone, and field drills.
Keobounnam just did measurements and bench, Quitoriano and Roberts did everything except bench.
“I just feel blessed,” said a smiling Hughes-Murray, who had a decent sized cheering section from the over-100 spectators who watched over the event from the sideline. “This just feels like something I’ve been working toward my whole life, this is just one of those steps along the way. I’m so thankful.”
Hughes-Murray, though, sounded relieved that he could finally take a brief break from his diet after he left the complex. “I’m about to go get me a burger RIGHT NOW,” he said with a laugh.
“The biggest thing I’ve taken away is to just let it loose,” Quitoriano said, who got to compete at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis back in the first week of March. “I always planned on doing (both the combine and pro day), I wanted to play well here for the last time and show my skills. (I just) wanted to have fun out there really.”
Quitoriano, Baylor, and Bradford all caught passes from senior QB Tristan Gebbia (who was not formally participating in pro day) during the field drills, running a range of short, intermediate, and deep routes.
“I came out here to show what I can do,” Baylor said after his workout. “Just being around a lot of people who are doing the same thing I’m doing and just competing every day with them just made me better.
Baylor looks to follow the line of Oregon State running backs into the NFL, from Artavis Pierce to Jermar Jefferson. “Just watching them do what they do and go through the process and just learn from them, it helped me a lot just to be comfortable, to know this is for a good cause.”
“I talked to (Jermar) a week ago, and I talked to (Pierce) yesterday, he was just telling me ‘I got this, just do what you do’.”
The numbers reflect it, but Jones really showed some twitch and bounce in front of scouts, posting the best vertical and long jump of the bunch. Baylor looked the smoothest through the short shuttle and three-cone drills. We don’t have official numbers, but it seemed that the two of them each ran a sub-4.5 40-yard-dash.
Here are the unofficial numbers we were able to get from the day (unable to get unofficial numbers for the 40-yard dash, shuttle, and three-cone).
