This is the Lay-Round Podcast with your host, JJ Zacharyse.

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyse and the editor-in-chief over at numberfire.com

and this is episode 109 of the Late Round Podcast, one of the many shows that are part

of the number fire podcast network.

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On Sunday, Bleach reports Mike Freeman tweeted that an NFL assistant coach said that he

would punch himself in the nuts many many many times to be able to draft Seikuam Barkley.

I know fantasy football owners would probably do that, but that's a little much for an NFL

assistant.

The NFL combine happened over the weekend for running back some wider receivers and it

was indeed the Seikuam Barkley show.

Barkley did a lot of bench press reps which doesn't really matter for the running back

position, but what does is that he ran a 4-4-40 yard dash.

That gave him a speed score which is a formula that factors in weight to a player's 40

time that ranks in the 97th percentile among running backs who have run the 40th at the

combine.

Essentially running a 4-4-40 at 233 pounds is very good.

Seikuam Barkley is a freak.

As I've mentioned over the last few weeks on this show, I look primarily at college production

when projecting how running backs and receivers will perform at the NFL level, but the combine

does matter.

And it's not just because we're seeing them perform in shorts, but we get heightened

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