Four Miami Hurricanes invited to NFL Scouting Combine
The NFL on Wednesday released its list of players invited to the NFL Scouting Combine, and four University of Miami Hurricanes are included.
None of them were invited to the recent Reese’s Senior Bowl, but now they have a chance to show off their skills or at minimum get measured and interviewed and examined in the premier showcase for football players before the draft.
The four Hurricanes: quarterback D’Eriq King, receiver Charleston Rambo, defensive tackle Jon Ford and safety Bubba Bolden.
The combine is March 1-7 in Indianapolis.
King played in only three games this past season because of a shoulder injury he sustained in that third game against Michigan State. In those three games, King completed 81 of 122 passes for 767 yards (66.4 percent) and three touchdowns. He also has four interceptions and has fumbled four times. He was sacked nine times.
In 2020, after the star quarterback transferred from Houston, he threw for 2,686 yards with 23 touchdowns and just five interceptions in his 10 1/2 games before tearing the ACL and meniscus of his right knee. He also rushed for 538 yards and four scores. He completed 64.1 percent of his passes and had 3,224 total yards.
Rambo, who transferred from Oklahoma for his final year, broke Miami’s single-season receiving yards and catches record in 2021, finishing with 1,172 yards and seven touchdowns on 79 catches for an average of 97.7 receiving yards a game.
Bolden played in only seven games in 2021 because of a shoulder injury he sustained Sept. 30 against Virginia. He was named to the All-ACC second team in 2020 when he was a Thorpe Award semifinalist, and ended 2021 with 42 tackles, 3 1/2 tackles for loss, a sack and two pass breakups.
Ford played in 10 games last season, with 14 tackles.
National champion Georgia had the most players invited, at 14. Oklahoma and LSU each had 11 players invited, with Texas A&M getting nine invitees.
This year’s NFL Draft is April 28-30 in Las Vegas.
This story was originally published February 9, 2022 at 12:35 PM.
