Lawrence Okoye - British Olympian

[BillsInMaine]

The NFL Super Regional Combine:

 

At nearly 6-foot-6 and 304 pounds, Okoye ran the 40-yard dash in 4.88 and 4.78 seconds while posting a 10-foot-5 broad jump and a 35-inch vertical jump

 

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000158087/article/lawrence-okoye-impresses-at-super-regional-combine

[FleaMoulds80]

I'd take this guy over any QB at number 8.

[mrags]

Hell be a 6-7th rounder if not an udfa but yeah, how could you not take a flyer on a kid like this?

[KeisterHollow]

Exactly as I've been saying - Buffalo needs to use it's later round picks and UDFA contracts on players with comparable measurables to the highly rated guys going in RD 1 and 2 - but who are overlooked due to small school, perhaps circumstantial under-production, in this particular case NO production, or in the case of honey badger, a problem with drugs. If Buffalo cannot compete with the other teams in the NFL in FA, then they've got to develop an edge somewhere else. If I were running the show, I'd have a separate department just for scouting and uncovering small school / or under the radar type players. They are out there - every year we see UDFA's, or Canadian football players coming in and having success, and every year I get frustrated that Buffalo - desperate as they should be, didn't UNCOVER EVERY STONE in attempts at getting better!

Edited April 8, 2013 by KeisterHollow

[Jim in Anchorage]

If the Bills are going to draft Olympian's I like this guy

[San Jose Bills Fan]

If the Bills are going to draft Olympian's I like this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34SVc9BMi18

 

The late great.

 

It seems like every time I saw him on TV he was setting another world record.

 

Of course those were the days of the Iron Curtain and their pioneering sports scientists.

[BringBackFergy]

If the Bills are going to draft Olympian's I like this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34SVc9BMi18

I remember watching guys like him on ABC Wide World of Sports...those were the days. A great event (that ranks right up there with watching Jean Claude Kille (sp?) in downhill skiing). Thanks for that Jim.

[Lurker]

Looks more like a player than Michael Jasper did, anyway...

[nick in* england]

I should comment here, right?

[Buffalo Barbarian]

 

you sure like Vasily but I'd rather go with a modern superman;

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXIhEOZnT_U

 

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Shaw_%28strongman%29

Edited April 8, 2013 by Buffalo Barbarian

[C.Biscuit97]

These guys hardly ever translate. Brock Lesnar put up freak #s and couldn't get out of camp. But if you don't need to us a draft pick, why the hell not?

[San Jose Bills Fan]

Arguably the greatest strongman in history, American Bill Kazmaier failed a tryout with the Green Bay Packers.

 

It's uphill to the NFL if you haven't played an appreciable amount of actual football.

 

Another thing about NFL players is that they have a very high threshold of pain and/or a high threshold for painkillers.

 

Not everyone is willing to make those kind of sacrifices.

[l< j]

With our luck, the Bills would go for Pocket Hercules.

 

[Jim in Anchorage]

I remember watching guys like him on ABC Wide World of Sports...those were the days. A great event (that ranks right up there with watching Jean Claude Kille (sp?) in downhill skiing). Thanks for that Jim.

I watched weight lifting every time it was on TV[it rarely was] and always wondered how someone capable of doing a 500 lb C&J could NOT be a good football player. In Particular Olympic lifting with the explosive strength it requires vs power lifting which is just a slow pull.