Shrine Game Practice - Final Notes & Player Rankings

January 19, 2019 | Tony Pauline

Shrine Game Practice - Final Notes & Player Rankings

Tony Pauline

Draft Analyst Writer

The practices are complete, the scouts have left St. Petersburg and all that remains is to kick off the 2019 Shrine Game. As we close the book on this year’s event, here are a few exiting notes as well as final player rankings from the three days of practice.

- Several offensive linemen impressed NFL scouts last week, and one who really stood out but didn’t get many headlines was James Pipkins of Sioux Falls. We mentioned the big tackle during our podcast on Tuesday, and I was hearing mid-round grades after the practices were complete. Teams mentioned the lack of talent at offensive tackle in this year’s draft and how a developmental left tackle prospect like Pipkins, who measured 6-foot-5.5 and 304 pounds, will be very attractive on draft weekend.

- During our final podcast from practice, I mentioned how impressed I was with Brody Oliver, the receiver from Colorado School of Mines. I was not alone, as many people I spoke with felt Oliver, who measured 6-foot-2.5 and 208 pounds with 10-inch hands, rivaled KeeSean Johnson and Cody Thompson for the top receiver on the West the final two days of practice.

- Staying on the offensive side of the ball, scouts and general managers are complaining this will be one of the worst drafts for prospects from the scoring side of the ball in a long time. Right now, they project as many as 70 of the top 100 players drafted coming from the defensive side of the ball.

- There was a lot of anger at the Shrine Game from scouts, league personnel and even agents over the record number of underclassmen who entered the draft. We reported during our podcast of January 10 about misinformation given to underclassmen to sway their decisions, including telling players they received third-round grades when nothing of the sort was true. I was also informed that underclassmen were encouraged to enter the draft based on the possibility of an NFL work stoppage in the near future. Part of the anger stems from deserving seniors potentially losing a coveted invitation at the upcoming combine. KeeSean Johnson was a mentioned as a potential casualty, as he’s yet to receive a combine invite and is one of the many deserving seniors on the bubble who will have to wait it out until invitations are sorted to the declared underclassmen. Many remedies were proposed by people at the Shrine Game, including severely restricting the number of underclassmen invited to the combine in order to make a statement; something I doubt ever happens.

Podcast from Monday Practice

Podcast from Tuesday Practice

Podcast from Wednesday Practice

Final Shrine Player Rankings
Grade	Rnd	Full Name	Pos	Yr	School
3.59	3-4	Daniel Wise	DT	5Sr	Kansas
3.55	4th	Landis Durham	DE	4Sr	Texas A&M
3.54	4th	Ty Johnson	RB	4Sr	Maryland
3.54	4th	Chris Slayton	DT	5Sr	Syracuse
3.53	4th	Sione Takitaki	OLB	5Sr	BYU
3.52	4th	KeeSean Johnson	WR	5Sr	Fresno State
3.51	4th	Jordan Brailford	DE	4Jr	Oklahoma State
3.48	5th	Paul Adams	T	5Sr	Missouri
3.48	5th	Devine Ozigbo	RB	4Sr	Nebraska
3.47	5th	Kendall Blanton	TE	5Sr	Missouri
3.46	4-5	Rashad Fenton	CB	4Sr	South Carolina
3.45	5th	Zedrick Woods	S	4Sr	Mississippi
3.44	6th	Jimmy Moreland	CB	5Sr	James Madison
3.44	5th	Daylon Mack	DT	4Sr	Texas A&M
3.42	5th	Isaiah Wharton	CB	5Sr	Rutgers
3.41	5th	Udoh Olisaemeka	T	5Sr	Elon
3.41	5th	Terry Godwin	WR	4Sr	Georgia
3.40	5th	Blace Brown	CB	5Sr	Troy
3.39	5-6	Khalil Hodge	ILB	5Sr	Buffalo
3.39	5-6	James Pipkins	T	4Sr	Sioux Falls
3.39	6th	Jordan Wyatt	CB	5Sr	SMU
3.38	5-6	Mathieu Betts	DE	4Sr	Laval-Canada
3.38	6th	Justin Hollins	OLB	5Sr	Oregon
3.38	6th	Alex Bookser	G	5Sr	Pittsburgh
3.38	6th	Chris Nelson	DT	5Sr	Texas
3.38	6th	D'Cota Dixon	S	5Sr	Wisconsin
3.37	6th	Michael Jackson	CB	4Sr	Miami-Fl
3.37	6th	Josh Miles	G	5Sr	Morgan State
3.36	6th	Kyle Phillips	DE	4Sr	Tennessee
3.36	6th	Justin Skule	T	4Sr	Vanderbilt
3.35	6th	Evan Worthington	S	4Sr	Colorado
3.35	6th	Martez Ivey	T	4Sr	Florida
3.35	6th	Montre Hartage	CB	4Sr	Northwestern
3.34	6th	Marquis Young	RB	4Sr	Massachusetts
3.34	6th	DaMarkus Lodge	WR	4Sr	Mississippi
3.34	6th	Jamal Custis	WR	5Sr	Syracuse
3.34	6th	Andrew Beck	TE	5Sr	Texas
3.34	6th	Jackson Barton	T	5Sr	Utah
3.34	6th	Richard Walker	DT	5Sr	Virginia Tech
3.33	6th	Lanard Bonner	G	5Sr	Arkansas State
3.33	6th	Tyler Jones	G	5Sr	North Carolina State
3.33	6th	Keaton Sutherland	G	4Sr	Texas A&M
3.33	6th	Cody Thompson	WR	5Sr	Toledo
3.32	6th	Lukas Denis	S	4Sr	Boston College
3.31	6-7	C.J. Conrad	TE	4Sr	Kentucky
3.31	6-7	Tyree Kinnel	S	4Sr	Michigan
3.30	6-7	Jordan Ta'amu	QB	4Sr	Mississippi
3.29	7th	Ulysees Gilbert	ILB	4Sr	Akron
3.28	7th	Donald Lewis	CB	5Sr	Tulane
3.27	7th	Nick Allegretti	G	5Sr	Illinois
3.27	7th	Tyree St. Louis	T	4Sr	Miami-Fl
3.27	7th	Jonathan Duhart	WR	5Sr	Old Dominion
3.26	FA	Easton Stick	QB	5Sr	North Dakota State
3.26	7th	Ron'Quavion Tarver	WR	4Sr	Utah State
3.26	7th	Ethan Greenidge	T	4Sr	Villanova
3.25	FA	Chris Johnson	S	4Sr	North Alabama
3.25	FA	Saquan Hampton	S	5Sr	Rutgers
3.25	FA	Michael Dogbe	DT	5Sr	Temple
3.24	FA	Brett Rypien	QB	5Sr	Boise State
3.24	FA	Qadree Ollison	RB	5Sr	Pittsburgh
3.24	FA	Ryan Pope	T	5Sr	San Diego State
3.23	FA	Delvon Randall	S	4Sr	Temple
3.22	FA	Brody Oliver	WR	5Sr	CSU-Mines
3.22	FA	Lamont Gaillard	C	5Sr	Georgia
3.22	FA	Derrick Baity	CB	4Sr	Kentucky
3.22	FA	BJ Blunt	DE	4Sr	McNeese State
3.22	FA	Andrew Wingard	S	4Sr	Wyoming
3.21	FA	Matt Sokol	TE	5Sr	Michigan State
3.20	FA	Chris Peace	OLB	5Sr	Virginia
3.19	FA	Joseph Dineen Jr.	ILB	5Sr	Kansas
3.16	FA	O'Shea Dugas	G	4Sr	Louisiana Tech
3.14	FA	Alec Eberle	C	5Sr	Florida State
3.14	FA	David Blough	QB	5Sr	Purdue
3.12	FA	Kevin Wilkins	DT	5Sr	Rutgers
3.11	FA	Cortez Broughton	DT	5Sr	Cincinnati
3.11	FA	Jesper Horsted	WR	4Sr	Princeton
3.11	FA	Ka'dar Hollman	CB	4Sr	Toledo
3.11	FA	John Keenoy	C	4Sr	Western Michigan
3.05	FA	Ryan Davis	WR	4Sr	Auburn
3.05	FA	Drew Lewis	ILB	4Sr	Colorado
3.05	FA	Darrin Hall	RB	4Sr	Pittsburgh
3.04	FA	Adarius Pickett	S	5Sr	UCLA
3.03	FA	Markus Jones	DE	5Sr	Angelo State
3.03	FA	Juwann Bushell-Beatty	T	5Sr	Michigan
3.02	FA	Jordan Ellis	RB	5Sr	Virginia
3.00	FA	Shawn Poindexter	WR	5Sr	Arizona
3.00	FA	Brian Wallace	T	5Sr	Arkansas
3.00	FA	Cole Holcomb	OLB	5Sr	North Carolina
3.00	FA	Kano Dillon	TE	5Sr	Oregon
3.00	FA	Terry Wright	WR	4Sr	Purdue
3.00	FA	Derick Roberson	CB	5Sr	Sam Houston State
2.96	FA	Nick Brossette	RB	4Sr	LSU
2.95	FA	Sean Rawlings	C	5Sr	Mississippi
2.93	FA	Taylor Cornelius	QB	5Sr	Oklahoma State
2.92	FA	Daniel Helm	TE	5Sr	Duke
2.85	FA	Tre Watson	ILB	5Sr	Maryland
2.83	FA	Jervontius Stallings	G	5Sr	Kentucky
2.81	FA	Cody Barton	OLB	4Sr	Utah
2.80	FA	Armon Watts	DT	5Sr	Arkansas
2.80	FA	Marcus McMaryion	QB	4Sr	Fresno State
2.76	FA	Nick Linder	C	5Sr	Indiana

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