For anyone unfamiliar with the Vikings' selection of Moritz Boehringer, the German who took up football after watching Adrian Peterson videos on YouTube just five years ago:
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/04/13/nfl-draft-2016-who-german-prospect-moritz-boehringer
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Moritz Boehringer, a receiver for the German Football League’s Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns, began his pro day testing with the broad jump. One of the 30 team scouts in attendance showed him where the 10-foot mark was. “Show him 11 feet,” Boehringer’s trainer requested. They did, and Boehringer jumped to within an inch of the mark. Among receivers who worked out at the scouting combine in February, that would have tied for second-best.
Next up, the vertical jump. Thirty-nine inches. That would have placed fourth at the combine. By the time Boehringer ran the 40-yard-dash, hand-timed on grass at between 4.43 and 4.5 seconds, Chiefs GM John Dorsey was on the phone with Boehringer’s agent, asking to set up a pre-draft visit in Kansas City. Teams only get 30 such visits with prospects who aren’t from their local area, and eight teams have allotted one of these visits to this largely unknown 22-year-old.
“I tried to get everything out of my body that was possible,” Boehringer said in well-practiced English. “I was pretty tired at the end, but I think I did pretty good.”
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Boehringer quite literally turned NFL heads at FAU’s Pro Day. After his 40-yard dash, his performance in the three-cone drill to test agility had scouts glancing doubly at their stopwatches. His time was 6.65 seconds, same as Ohio State’s Braxton Miller. That would have placed Boehringer third among all receivers at the combine, and the fact that he was doing it with a 6’ 4” frame was enough, at least, for scouts to be intrigued.
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