Senior Bowl notes, day 4

Not a lot to note from the broadcasts of Thursday's practices, even compared to Wednesday's. The players practiced without pads and ran a lot of half-speed drills that I just don't get a lot out of. And the "Path To The Draft" show, when asked to name the players who helped their pro prospects out the most this week, proceeded to give a rundown of about two dozen players. Yeah, thanks for that.

* Secondary primary. CBs looked good in both practices today. Patrick Robertson broke up one pass and intercepted Zac Robinson's poor overthrow in 7-on-7. Perrish Cox also had a nice pass break-up for the South. For the North, Kyle Wilson broke up a couple of passes and blanketed Mardy Gilyard beautifully on kind of a red zone broken play. My favorite CB of the week has been Chris Cook, who broke up one pass and intercepted another pretty stupid pass, stupid because he had his man absolutely smothered. I couldn't ID the offending QB. SydQuan Thompson struggled a little but Mike Mayock stayed behind him, saying he's a player who's better on game day than he is in practice.

* Passing muster. QB play is improving. Tony Pike threw some very precise red zone passes into tight spaces. Tim Tebow's throwing seems to have improved throughout the week. He had a sweet deep completion to Florida teammate Riley Cooper. Jarrett Brown got most of the 11-on-11 reps that were televised. Corey Chavous projected Dan LeFevour as a second-round pick, apparently higher than the draftnik consensus has him.

* WR projections and objections. Taylor Price didn't show good hands, missing a couple of catches. Cooper, on the other hand, looked a lot better today than he had all week. The entertaining moment of the day was Chavous RIPPING Mayock's ranking of Golden Tate, Arrelious Benn and Demaryius Thomas as his 2nd-thru-4th-best WR prospects. Amazingly, Mayock just let Chavous' criticism slide by. They both agree on Dez Bryant as the #1 WR prospect; Chavous ranks Brandon LaFell 2nd while practically calling Mayock's other WR rankings a joke.

* Same old stuff. The biggest problem with NFL Network's coverage is that they always focus on the same old guys. They talked in depth about Taylor Mays for the FOURTH straight day. Are there no other prominent players to talk about? For the record, Mays acknowledged in an interview that he needs to go for the ball more and for the big hit less. Hey, and did you hear Mike Iupati's good? Well, we heard it again. Is Mayock the guy's agent? They showed Iupati pretty much running like a deer during special teams drills. They also said Terrence Cody should be a FIRST-round pick by a team running a 3-4 defense, but he'd pretty much better not gain a pound from where he is right now. Yeah, I've got 395 in the Mount Cody Combine Weigh-In pool.

* So who do I think helped themselves the most this week? Iupati went from a player I'd never heard of at all to a sure top-20 pick. Kyle Wilson and Brandon Graham probably played their way into the first round. Chris Cook, Devin McCourty and Alex Carrington look like nice sleeper picks. Also good weeks for Jared Odrick, Patrick Robertson, Daryl Washington, Sean Weatherspoon, Dexter McCluster, Tyson Alualu, Shawn Lauvao, Koa Misi, John Jerry, Stafon Johnson, Myron Rolle, and Ben Tate. And yes, that's as bad as what I criticized the Path to the Draft show for doing earlier.

The short answer is the Idahoans, Iupati and Wilson. Who saw that coming? The hotbed of NFL draft talent - Idaho?

* Stock down: Danario Alexander for getting hurt again. Zane Beadles never looked very good. Terrence Cody's neighborhood baker. Anybody from Kentucky. Riley (Drew Bennett) Cooper. Joe (Hands of Soap) Webb. May the Combine be better to each of you.

That leaves me with just the game itself to review. I may do that this coming weekend. There's nothing going on Sunday night, is there?