Michigan at NFL Combine, Sunday live blog: Karsen Barnhart, LaDarius Henderson, Trente Jones, Trevor Keegan, Drake Nugent, Zak Zinter
Michigan football has taken over the NFL Combine with a record 18 players invited. Sunday is the final day of testing and drills, with the offensive linemen set to compete. Michigan has six in attendance in Karsen Barnhart, LaDarius Henderson, Trente Jones, Trevor Keegan, Drake Nugent and Zak Zinter.
Zinter won’t participate in any drills as he continues to recover from his leg injury suffered Nov. 25 against Ohio State.
Sunday’s on-field coverage of the combine is televised on NFL Network beginning at 1 p.m. ET.
This live blog will have the latest on how they all do in their on-field drills, what’s being said about them by analysts and more. Follow along below for real-time updates on Michigan players at the combine.
Live updates: Michigan at NFL Scouting Combine
• 4:42 p.m. — Drills have wrapped up for Nugent and the second group of offensive linemen.
• 4:01 p.m. — Nugent goes through the wave drill, where linemen change directions, moving side to side, forward and backward, reacting to which direction the coach points the football.
“He looks pretty good here,” Jeremiah said. “I think he’s got the best feet of the Michigan linemen.”
“He’s really polished,” O’Hara chimed in. “Zinter got all of the attention, but Nugent was really kind of a glue guy, kept everybody on the same page. That was a good rep right there.”
“I did catch him stepping under himself a little bit,” Lewan noted. “He needs to be a little more light on his feet. Gain ground with those steps coming out of transition.”
• 3:40 p.m. — Nugent goes from 5.23 seconds on his first run to 5.32 on his second in the 40-yard dash.
• 3:36 p.m. — NFL Network reporter Ian Rapoport lists Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy as one of the players at the combine who most raised his draft stock.
“Everyone loves the intangibles, loves the leadership, loves the winning,” Rapoport said. “Wondered, ‘How could he do? How would he throw it?’ I would say there’s a pretty good chance that he is the fourth quarterback taken — a lot closer to the top three than maybe we all imagined.”
Host Rich Eisen asked Jeremiah if there’s any chance that McCarthy cracks is a top three quarterback taken.
“Yeah, I think he’s in the conversation there. If you talk to 10 people here, and you do the Drake Maye, Jayden Daniels … five will have one and five will have the other. Now, J.J. gets tossed in that conversation and we’ll see what happens. I know one thing, I had J.J. going eight to Atlanta, and I think people were kind of shocked by that. It took me aback, because when you talk to people here, I don’t think anybody anticipates that he’s going to be there in the second round. Everybody anticipates J.J. McCarthy is going in the first round.”
• 3:21 p.m. — Nugent runs his first 40-yard dash, registering a 1.83-second 10-yard split and 5.23-second overall time (unofficial).
“He’s the man in the middle, the center,” analyst Daniel Jeremiah said. “They say he’s the man that makes that whole offensive line go.”
• 2:58 p.m. — Official 40-yard dash times are in for Jones, Barnhart and Keegan.
Jones: 5.17 seconds (14th among 28 offensive linemen in the first group)
Barnhart: 5.21 seconds (19th)
Keegan: 5.24 seconds (22nd)
• 2:44 p.m. — The first group of offensive linemen have finished up. Nugent is the last Michigan lineman that will work out with the second crop.
• 2:35 p.m. — Keegan has “another good rep right there,” per O’Hara. Lewan adds “that’s what national champions do. Look at him trotting away, getting confidence, too. You see the confidence in that jog.”
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• 2:29 p.m. — Keegan shows out in the same drill. O’Hara says he had “good pop.” He added that Keegan did a “good job.”
• 2:29 p.m. — O’Hara says Jones has a “good rep right there” going through a drill where the lineman punches a pad and shows his footwork.
• 2:05 p.m. — Keegan goes through the wave drill.
“He’s moving well,” former Michigan offensive lineman Taylor Lewan said on the NFL Network broadcast.
“He looks really good in these drills,” analyst Shaun O’Hara said.
• 2:03 p.m. — Henderson didn’t run the 40 but is going through drills.
• 1:56 p.m. — As Barnhart goes through a drill, the NFL Network broadcast reveals that Michigan having six offensive linemen at the combine is a record by a school.
• 1:48 p.m. — Keegan also betters his time on his second run, with a 5.25 40-yard dash and 1.78 10-yard split.
• 1:48 p.m. — Jones improves his time to 5.17 seconds with a 1.81 10-yard split on his second attempt.
• 1:33 p.m. — Barnhart improves his time to 5.22 seconds on his second run, with a 1.76 10-yard split.
• 1:32 p.m. — Keegan posts a 5.28-second 40-yard dash with a 1.81-second 10-yard split on his first run.
• 1:31 p.m. — Jones runs a 5.19 40-yard dash with a 1.79 10-yard split on his first 40-yard dash attempt.
• 1:12 p.m. — Barnhart runs a 5.26-second 40-yard dash with a 1.78-second 10-yard split on his first attempt.
• 1:09 p.m. — 40-yard dashes for the first offensive line group have begun. Barnhart is up fourth.
• 12:30 p.m. — Measurements are in for Michigan’s six offensive lineman prospects.
Player | Height | Weight | Arm Length | Hand Size |
Zak Zinter | 6’ 6’’ | 309 lbs | 33 1/2’’ | 9 3/8’’ |
Player | Height | Weight | Arm Length | Hand Size |
Trente Jones | 6’ 4’’ | 305 lbs | 33’’ | 10 1/8’’ |
Player | Height | Weight | Arm Length | Hand Size |
Trevor Keegan | 6’ 5’’ | 310 lbs | 32 3/8’’ | 10’’ |
Player | Height | Weight | Arm Length | Hand Size |
Drake Nugent | 6’ 1 1/2’’ | 298 lbs | 33’’ | 9’’ |
Player | Height | Weight | Arm Length | Hand Size |
Karsen Barnhart | 6’ 4 1/2’’ | 306 lbs | 33 3/8’’ | 9 7/8’’ |
Player | Height | Weight | Arm Length | Hand Size |
LaDarius Henderson | 6’ 4’’ | 309 lbs | 35’’ | 10 5/8’’ |
11:51 a.m. — Blake Corum puts up 27 reps on the bench press, which currently ranks eighth overall and first among running backs at this year’s combine.