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Above the Nest #43: Day 1 and 2 NFL Combine Recap + league-wide COVID-19 protocols suspended

Bleeding Green Nation: for Philadelphia Eagles fans

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🗓️ 5 March 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Raichele Privette recaps some of the biggest takeaways and standout players from the first two days of the 2022 NFL Scouting Combine. She also explains the league-wide COVID-19 protocols suspension and exciting news to keep an eye out for.  *Vote for BGN Radio in the Sports Podcast Awards! Here's three easy steps!* Register at sportspodcastawards.com Go to the 'Best Team Podcast' category  Vote for Bleeding Green Nation Subscribe to the BGN YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BleedingGreenNationSBN Take our podcast survey: sbnation.com/survey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello there, what did you, how are you, and welcome to episode 43 of Above the Nest with

0:15.7

Rachel brought to you by S.P. Nation and Bleeding Green Nation.

0:21.9

It's a great day to talk football, that is equals to ball of course, and I'm your host

0:26.0

Rachel Pervet. Getting you hip, very quick, tip, what's happening.

0:32.4

The 2022 NFL Scouting Combine is underway. They won in day two are officially in the books

0:38.4

and here are some news and takeaways from the combine so far.

0:44.1

Well things kicked off on Thursday, March 3rd, we saw the quarterbacks, the wide receivers

0:48.8

and tight ends, and Friday, March 4th literally just wrapped up where the running backs and

0:55.3

the offensive line took center stage.

0:59.9

I'm sure you heard all of the hype about the review of Pit quarterback Kenny Pickett's

1:05.5

hand size. His hands were measured at eight and a half inches, the smallest of any quarterback

1:11.3

in the NFL. Even though this was the big buzz all over social media, everybody was talking

1:17.1

about everybody was measuring their own hand size. Pickett, who is considered to be one

1:22.4

of the most NFL ready quarterbacks, didn't seem bothered at all or phased at all by the

1:31.2

questions from the media or just knowing that his hand size was trending all over social

1:36.4

media. He didn't seem faced during the workouts on Thursday. He ran a 4.73, which ranked

1:43.4

third among the eight quarterbacks who participated in the drill. Some of the other standouts that

1:49.3

really impressed during day one were a lot of wide receivers. There was a ton of hype

1:56.2

around Baylor wide receiver Taikwan Thornton who ran his 40 yard dash in an unofficial

2:02.2

time of 4.21 seconds. Many did think that he had broken the all time 40 record until his

2:11.3

official time came like hours later and it was 4.28 seconds. Ohio Statewide receiver Chris

2:20.5

Olave, definitely one of the best receivers that we saw on Thursday, ran an unofficial

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