Champions of the underdog will be watching Tyler Matakevich tonight. He is a linebacker drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers at the 246 position. He is hanging on to the Steeler roster as the Steelers decide on one more linebacker to keep. He has had a good camp but the odds are against him.
Matakevich is coming off a season in which he swept college football's major awards recognizing the nation's top defensive player (the Chuck Bednarik and Bronko Nagurski awards), and he was the soul of a Temple team that arguably was the best in the program's history. So why wasn't Matakevich drafted higher than 246th overall,
Matakevich, from the Combine:
6-feet tall, 238 pounds, 4.81 seconds in the 40-yard dash, 7.19 in the three-cone drill, 4.5 in the 20-yard shuttle, 112 inches in the broad jump and 31 inches in the vertical jump.
Matakevich is coming off a season in which he swept college football's major awards recognizing the nation's top defensive player (the Chuck Bednarik and Bronko Nagurski awards), and he was the soul of a Temple team that arguably was the best in the program's history. So why wasn't Matakevich drafted higher than 246th overall,
Matakevich, from the Combine:
6-feet tall, 238 pounds, 4.81 seconds in the 40-yard dash, 7.19 in the three-cone drill, 4.5 in the 20-yard shuttle, 112 inches in the broad jump and 31 inches in the vertical jump.
• Only five of 31 linebackers who ran the 40 did so in a slower time than Matakevich.
• Only four of 16 linebackers who ran the three-cone drill did so in a slower time than Matakevich.
• Only five of 20 linebackers who ran the 20-yard shuttle did so in a slower time than Matakevich.
• Only four of 32 linebackers had a worse broad jump than Matakevich.
• Only eight of 32 linebackers had a worse vertical jump than Matakevich.
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