At least five senior football players at NDSU will be giving pro football a shot. Running back D.J. McNorton, safety Daniel Eaves, tight end Matt Veldman, defensive end Coulter Boyer and offensive tackle Paul Cornick have begun working out in preparation for the annual look in front of NFL scouts, which usually takes place in March at the Fargodome.
None of the players, to the knowledge of myself and the NDSU sports information office, are playing in a postseason all-star game.
Pro days are an exercise in pressure; you basically get an hour or so to impress a scout. It’s what got Joe Mays, Ramon Humber, Craig Dahl and Nick Schommer to the NFL, with Mays still playing a regular role. Schommer has since been released. Dahl, if you remember, blew away some scouts at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis in the shuttle run.
Jeff, I’d just like to thank you for not writing articles like Wayne Nelson does.
How about Warren Holloway?
Can you imagine what our pro day will be like in 2 years. Probably 15 guys participating in that one with 10 of those guys getting drafted. I think probably 2 of the guys from this year will get drafted. I saw lakes posted on Bisonville that the football team will be going to the White House to meet Obama. What a well deserved honor.
your funny 03…on bisonville you make sense here you don’t
Supposedly not the same guy…
What about Austin Richard, Chad Willson, Ryan Jastram, Matt Voigtlander and Warren Halloway?
Jastram has a strong leg and he really improved. Voigtlander has only punted for one season and he was nearly the MVP in the national championship game for his performance. With good coaching at the NFL level you would think he could be really good.
I agree Richard was a stud moving around to help the line against the 3-4 defense. Holloway, Willson, Voightlander, and Jastrom should at least get a look!
Bison 03 I DID NOT POST THAT.
this post better go through!
Sorry, you posted they might be going. Read it wrong. Still well deserved if they are able to go.
Are you censored here also?
No Holloway? Veldman is a lock with size/speed/athletisicm Cornick would be next DJ would be a great 3rd down back. Boyer will have to rely on game film toughness. Eaves is borderline.
Best of luck boys.
Mays, Dahl, Humber are waiting for you. Schommer will be back if jeff fisher gets a job.
PS I wish ndsu wouldnt play und in anything, the winged bats up there are acting like this is the biggest thing since sliced bread, thier desperation to be relevant is embarassing.
I alsi love thier assoc ad on 740am giggling and condoning throwing dead animals on the ice, wed be in jail for that down here, not to mention the f da gopher chants , hypocrites. And Rep Judy Lee from.west fargos letter to the editor is condeming NDSU? Really? What a baffoon
You bring up UND more than anyone on this board lakes. Almost every post you are bringing them up. I wish we didn’t have to travel up to GF to play but find me another basketball opponent that will actually travel to Fargo that will bring in an attendance of 10,000+.
correct Bison03
I just don’t see it with Veldman. He averaged 1.7 catches per game with only 3 td’s this year! He is an average blocker at best, although he improved a ton on that this year. How is a guy who couldn’t even catch two balls a game in FCS going to be a tight end in the NFL? I think NFL backers are a little better than the guys he faced this year.
Veldman would be a huge project.
There are 1440 active players on rosters for the 32 teams in the NFL (45 players active each team). Why is it such a surprise that three NDSU alumni have made rosters… Humber, Dahl, and Mays. That’s .2% of NFL rosters filled with NDSU players. Heck, even two UND players have been pretty successful on NFL rosters…Kleinsasser and Kuper in 2011.
The difference in Division I football programs and Division I-AA is depth. There is no doubt that lower levels of football have NFL talents, its just not that prevalent the lower in divisions you go.
Jastram in my opinion should have a great shot. missed 2 field goals and 1 was a bad snap and he never kicked it and another was a 49 yarder into a tough midwest wind.
Austin Richard is NFL caliber.
Quite a few should get a shot. Wilson should get a look down the line. This is the local workout day and maybe some are not going under a direct request from a scout and not reported. Some of these guys are likely to get an agent in line to start visiting other combines too. I agree our kickers are good enough but they are rarely drafted and the competion in the NFL does not turn over much. I bet Voitlander gets a walk on request from a few. Schommer told me in TX he does have a good shot with Fisher now. I hope he does well.
Proves you don’t need to get on a mediocre BCS team to have a chance at a dream.
As a graduate and letterman from N.D.S.U., I would ask Bison fans to stop using the “Sioux Suck” forever. It’s offensive to everyone.
William, I will not argue that maybe we should stop saying it but I just don’t agree that Bison fans are racist for chanting that phrase. I have said it many times and never once intended it to be about the Sioux people. I am about 1/4 Irish and if I went to a USC-Notre Dame football game and the chant “Irish suck” broke out I would not take it that the USC fans meant Irish people such as myself suck. I would be SMART enough to know that they were talking about their rival the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. For God’s sake I am Norwegian! Look at all of the Dumb Norwegian books! But it’s OK I think I’ll survive! When SDSU people say “Buck the Fison” do we really think they are talking about a large animal that roams the prairie???
I hope it stops because it is just to damn much “Drama” for me! Can you say drama queens??? I swear that if all of the sudden all the teams with native nick names would have just changed their names we would have had these same people screaming they were being treated unfairly because their names were taken out of sports! You can’t win! Stick with names like Dragons, Spuds, Locomotives(Rebels), Bruins, Packers, Spartans, Grovers, Deacons, Falcons, Eagles, Cobbers and Bison and let the drama end! PS-There are people dying of starvation everyday on this planet! Now that is something we should be concerned about!
Hey Jeff, story idea. Did most of the seniors stick around here or have some gone home and maybe doing pro days at schools near their homes. I would also be interested to see if some are just not interested in pursuing NFL and moving on with their degrees. Chad Wilson, like many others here are wondering is a big??? I would think he has a great shot. Voigt and Jazzy you would think, but look at the line of successful punters we have had and Drago was even on Kipers list but still no draft. It blows me away that Drago and Prelvitz and now Voigt do not have a shot. Some of the punters in the NFL flat out suck. Go Bison, and fans try and stay classier than the UND coaches while at the game. Maybe they can learn how to conduct themselves by watching you.
If Willson was about 3” taller, I would agree he has a good shot. NFL OLB’s are generally in that 6’2”-6’3” range. He has to add a good 10lbs or more to be able to switch to the middle. He is a player tho.