NFL scouts begin quarterback debate for draft
■Joey Harrington and David
Carr, expected to be the first
quarterbacks taken in the NFL
draft, work out on Sunday
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
Let the debate begin.
Quarterbacks worked out for
NFL scouts for the first time Sun
day at the NFL combine, fueling the
debate over who will be the first
quarterback taken on April 20. Will
it be former Oregon quarterback
loey Harrington or David Carr, the
former Fresno State star?
Most NFL scouts and draft ana
lysts have Carr listed as the top quar
terback in the draft and possibly the
No. 1 pick overall, which belongs to
the expansion Houston Texans.
ESPN.com’s Len Pasquarelli said
that Carr will “no doubt” be the Tex
ans top choice
for the No. 1
pick, despite
Carr’s unortho
dox si dearm de
livery.
Harrington’s
workout Sun
day did not go
unnoticed. In
fact, Pasquarel
li said Harring
ton was the
“star of the throwing session,”
“I was very impressed with Har
rington,” one NFL head coach told
CNNSI.com. “He’s very smooth. I
like his mechanics. Very fluid.
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got it back and threw in a runner
with 12 seconds left. The Bruins
got the ball back and still had one
timeout remaining, but never used
it. UCLA freshman Ryan Walcott
missed a three-pointer with less
than three seconds left and Ore
gon’s Robert Johnson grabbed the
rebound to seal the Ducks’ Los
Angeles sweep.
“All that from a team that can’t
win on the road, huh?” Kent said,
referring to the Ducks’ label as a
team that loses close games away
from McArthur Court.
Oregon was led by Jones’ 22
points and Ridnour’s 14. The Bru
ins got a career game from center
Dan Gadzuric, who had 22 points,
but got only 24 combined points
from their four other starters.
. “Our .game plan was to make
them bored, take this crowd out of
the game,” Kent said.
For much of the first half, Oregon
indeed kept UCLA’s crowd out of
the game. Over a two-minute
stretch midway through the first
frame, the Ducks got a pair of treys
from senior guard Anthony Lever
and led 31-21 with 5:35 left!
The Bruins chipped away at the
Ducks’ lead and eventually went
ahead 49-48 on a Walcott three
with 7:50 remaining in the game.
But Oregon guard James Davis an
swered with a trey of his own, and
the Ducks never trailed for the re
mainder of the contest.
“We just came out here and gut
ted it out,” said Ridnour, who ad
mitted that the Ducks were “tired”
after their emotional win over USC
on Thursday.
For Kent, the end of the regular
season is only the beginning of a
third season: the postseason.
“They’re on a magical run right
now,” said Kent of his Ducks.
“Phase three, here we come.”
E-mail sports reporter Peter Hockaday
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Very natural. Not labored at all. If I
were to rank them based on what
I saw today, I’d put Harrington
above Carr.
“But you can’t base it on just
this.”
Harrington was not at full
strength entering the workout. He
was battling a head cold and deal
ing with the hospitalization of his
grandfather, Bemie Harrington.
“I feel terrible,” Harrington
said. “It’s been a long week. ...
What people don’t realize is how
difficult the two days are leading
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up to these workouts. It’s a very
draining weekend.
“When people talk about how
tough it is to perform at the com
bine, it’s not necessarily the track
or necessarily the field itself. It’s
just a difficult weekend — men
tally, physically. It’s draining.
They get you up early, they keep
you up late, they want to see how
you can respond to an adverse
situation.”
Prior to the combine, some draft
experts had Harrington falling out
of the top 10, but Pasquarelli said
r
Sunday that the “Oregon star an
swered any doubts some teams
harbored about him and re-estab
lished himself as a certain first
round selection.”
ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. projects
Harrington to be the third overall
pick, which belongs to the Detroit
Lions. Former Oregon quarter
back Akili Smith was the third
overall pick in the 1999 draft
(Cincinnati).
E-mail sports editor Adam Jude
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
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