Buchsbaum on pre-draft workouts

Bengals’ Krumrie works out DTs Seymour, Stroud and Warren; results of other recent workouts

March 16, 2001

Tim Krumrie, the Bengals’ DL coach, is known as a killer on workouts. He’s the type of guy who takes players to the wall and to the mat; he works them hard, and then when they’re ready to throw up, he works them harder.

Krumrie worked out three defensive tackles: Georgia’s Richard Seymour and Marcus Stroud and Florida’s Gerard Warren. None of them had great workouts, but they all managed to survive them without saying "uncle." Probably none of them moved up or moved down much because of the workout. People were hoping Warren would be in better shape and have a better workout. They were also hoping the Georgia tackles would do a little bit better.

ProFootballWeekly.com: Krumrie isn’t just doing this for the Bengals, correct?

Buchsbaum: Correct — other teams are allowed to watch.

PFW: It seems surprising that players’ agents would allow these workouts. Why would agents go along with allowing Krumrie to work out players?

Buchsbaum: Because if the other players do it and their player doesn’t, it looks bad. It’s the type of situation where (these tackles) are in a jam because it’s not a clear-cut pecking order at that position. If someone tried to do that to Michael Vick, his agent could (safely) call a halt to it. If someone tried to do that to David Terrell, his agent could do the same thing. But you have a lot of defensive tackles that could go in different pecking orders (this year).

Justin Smith of Missouri had a fabulous athletic workout: 4.6s in the 40-yard dashes, 35-inch vertical, tremendous agility drill. But the question with him is play strength, because he’s got a thin lower body.

Kenyatta Walker just did position drills at Florida. He showed strong, explosive hand punch.

Both S Adam Archuleta and TE Todd Heap ran very well at Arizona State. Archuleta ran under 4.5, which really should help him, probably gets him into the second round, maybe even the late first round. People will use him as a strong safety. He’s still a major projection there, but he did play some in the Senior Bowl and he’s got speed.

One interesting note about Carolina’s QB situation: Three years ago, when George Seifert was working for CBS, it was Quincy Carter’s freshman year at Georgia, and Seifert fell in love with Carter.

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