Justin Blackmon sliding?

And by sliding, I mean past the Rams at #6?

I know, I know, the top six should be a done deal by now, this is the kind of crap teams after the Rams who want Blackmon are going to put out, and Rams Nation doesn't really need this kind of grief barely two weeks before the draft.

Pros and cons, as presented in a Nolan Nawrocki article today on ProFootballWeekly.com:

Concerns have arisen about Blackmon in the NFL scouting community after he opted not to take the team charter home from the Fiesta Bowl. Instead, he chose to fly directly to Las Vegas and then elected not to work out at the Combine, where NFL executives thought he had not prepared well enough to perform after he turned down challenges to run.

[Michael] Floyd has been inching up draft boards since clocking as low as a 4.40 40-yard time at the Combine at nearly two inches and 13 pounds heavier than Blackmon. Three of seven teams with whom PFW consulted confided that Floyd is stacked ahead of Blackmon by their account, with one GM who's not in a position to draft Blackmon saying he had a second-round grade on the Cowboys' receiver.

"I just don't see it," the GM said. "I heard everyone raving about his pro day. Am I the only one who thought it was an average workout? He ran a 4.51 and 4.52 on my watch. The workout itself, I thought, was average at best. I didn't see any twitch or explosion. He has been raised by Dez Bryant. They are both knuckleheads — I've heard the Vegas stories. There are some (red) flags there."

Other NFL eyes remain convinced Blackmon will not escape the top seven.

“I don’t know how (Blackmon) gets past Cleveland or Jacksonville,” said another NFL evaluator charged with setting the team’s draft board. “He’s a playmaker. He’s got that bullshit to him, but almost all of them at that position have it. Look at Michael Irvin and Steve Smith and DeSean Jackson. When (Blackmon) is on the field, he competes. Guys can beat him up off the field, but he has been productive in every big-game competition. He’s not in the same class as Julio Jones or A.J. Green. Those guys were more elite athletically. But the kid ran a 4.47 and 4.49 (at his pro day) — he is 4.50 all day on tape.”

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