Cliff Kirkpatrick

Oregon State ran its pro day combine for the NFL on Friday. About 15 scouts came to Corvallis to collect data on the Beavers.

There were 12 athletes who went through at least some portion of the drills. It was a small showing for players and scouts this year.

Of the 12, there were six from previous years still trying to get noticed. They were Joe Lemma, Bryant Cornell, Chris Johnson, Dennis Christopher, Brandon Powers and Shane Morales.

The latest crop of Beavers were Sean Canfield, Ben Terry, Patrick Henderson, Damola Andeniji, Keaton Kristick and Gregg Peat.

Tim Clark was there but plans to do his pro day April 1 in Los Angeles. He got a late start to training from the broken leg suffered in the Civil War.

Check out Terry on the bench press above. The video just below is of Peat on the bench.

Canfield did the vertical jump and threw to receivers only. He looked strong and accurate. He said the difference from the NFL combine and today was he got more throws in and had a rhythm.

Kristick, OSU’s other top prospect, said he had an decent day and improved in some areas from the combine. Kristick heard he is a middle round draft pick. Check out his bench below.

Here are the bench numbers. They had to put up 225 pounds as many times as they could. Adeniji 8, Henderson 16, Kristick 18, Peat 23, Terry 21, Christopher 17, Johnson 18, Cornell 24, Powers 13, Lemma 20.

Terry turned in a strong performance in the vertical and long jump. He looked agile for a DE. Henderson was overall athletic. Cornell did well being a year removed from the game. Here’s Terry in the 40-yard dash.

Adeniji drew some interest from his speed and catching passes. A few scouts took an interest in Peat after his OL drill work.

Here are some unofficial 40 times for some of the guys: Kristick 4.72, Terry 4.76, Adeniji 4.58, Peat 5.23 and Cornell 4.59. Here’s Kristick’s 40.

What got to the athletes were the cone/shuttle drills. They show their burst of speed and flexibility. The scouts were very specific how they were to be done.

The following videos are a sampling of the 20-yard shuttle, 60-yard shuttle and 3-cone drill.

More from pro day will be in Saturday’s GT with interviews from those who went through it.

Terry in the 60 shuttle

Adeniji in 3-cone drill

Kristick in 20-yard shuttle

Henderson in 20-yard shuttle

Adeniji in 20-yard shuttle

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An appeal by the Oregon State football team for Darrell Catchings to receive a medical hardship wavier for last season was granted by the Pacific-10 Conference on Thursday, according to the Beavers.

Here’s a link to a longer story on this that runs in Friday’s GT.

Catchings will be a junior this coming season and have two seasons to play. The wide receiver played some last year but wrist and ankle injuries sidelined him most of the season.

He had never voluntarily redshirted, so the Beavers asked for last season to be his redshirt year. Pac-10 faculty representatives met at the Pac-10 basketball tournament in Los Angeles to vote on each school’s cases.

Part of the criteria for a medical hardship wavier are he never redshirted, he played less than three games and the injury was season ending. The Beavers felt he met all the criteria for the minimum eight votes going in.

Catchings began last season as the starting split end, the go-to receiver in the offense. However a sprained right wrist from a blocking drill was originally diagnosed as a fracture.

Right before surgery he was checked a second time and it was determined he could return after five weeks of rehab. He came back to play in two games before severe high ankle sprain.

Catchings was tackled after a catch on the sidelines against Arizona on Sept. 26 and rolled his ankle.

The Beavers hoped he could make a speedy recovery, but didn’t. By the time he was cleared to practice but it wasn’t enough time to get in shape for the Dec. 22 Las Vegas Bowl.

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While the Oregon State wrestling team is preparing for the NCAA tournament, one of the qualifiers had some legal woes to deal with.

Here’s a link a story GT crime reporter Rachel Beck did on 141-pounder Mike Mangrum.

He had his sentence hearing Wednesday about the drunken fight he and teammate Tim Patrick got into last spring. Mangrum got probation, even though he didn’t complete the diversion program he was supposed to.

According to Beck, Mangrum thought studying hall and training for wrestling was more important than diversion, and missed a court date to wrestle a match. The vibe was the judge had mercy on Mangrum even though the prosecutor was outraged.

The worst part of all this, Mangrum apparently lost this scuffle with a cyclist.

Comment here if you like. The Beavers took a wait-and-see stance. So should Mangrum be allowed to wrestle at the NCAA tournament with this verdict?

UPDATE: I caught up with coach Jim Zalesky and asked him the status of Mangrum going into the NCAAs and if he followed OSU’s code of conduct since Mangrum didn’t miss a meet this season.

Zalesky follows the code as a guideline, and suspended Mangrum earlier. He also expects more from his guys. For him this has already been addressed. The courts just caught up. So, Mangrum is NCAA-bound.

“The only reason it’s an issue now is he didn’t do what he is suppose to do,” Zalesky said. “It was a good learning experience for him. For me, I punished him last year. He was supposed to go to the junior world trials. That happened about two weeks before that and I pulled him out. As far as wrestling, I already punished him. His problem is he has to take individual responsibility, which he didn’t do.”

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