NFL Draft weekend in review

Here's a list of CES players who got picked up by an NFL team during draft weekend.

1st Round
Michael Brockers - St. Louis Rams(no. 14)

2nd Round
Brian Quick - St. Louis(no. 33)
Vinny Curry - Philadelphia(no. 59)

4th Round
Joe Looney - San Francisco(no. 117)

5th Round
Danny Coale - Dallas(no. 152)

7th Round
Junior Hemingway - Kansas City(no.238)

Undrafted Free Agents 


Lionel Smith Jr. - Dallas
Alvester Alexander - Chicago
Grant Garner - Washington
David Snow - Buffalo
Kelcie McCray - Miami
Dominique Hamilton - Oakland
Chris Summers - Chicago
Derek Dreher - Baltimore
Conrad Obi - Arizona
Jarrett Boykin - Jacksonville
Travaris Cadet - New Orleans
Matt Singletary - Minnesota
Dominique Davis - Atlanta
Ronald Leary - Dallas
George Bias - Tennessee
Matt Daniels - St. Louis
Rishaw Johnson - Seattle
Ryan Lee - Pittsburgh
Tysyn Hartman - Kansas City
Nick Sanez - Buffalo
Michael Hoag - St. Louis
JB Shugarts - Cleveland
GJ Kinne - New York Jets
Patrick Witt - New Orleans

NFL Draft Stock Rises for Michael Brockers (Potential 8th pick overall)

Michael Brockers is making waves at the 2012 NFL Scouting Combine.  His draft stock has risen recently, and teams are now scheduling visits to meet the redshirt sophomore DT from LSU.  Michael has been preparing for the Combine and PRO day in Dallas at CES Performance's newest elite training facility.  He has worked one on one with legendary NFL defensive line coach Pete Jenkins while also preparing physically and mentally for the road ahead of him.  Here are just a few of the things being mentioned about Brockers in the media:

The St. Louis Rams have asked for a little one-on-one time with LSU defensive tackle Michael Brockers following this week's 2012 Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, according to Joe Everett of RookieDraft.com. The Rams were one of four teams requesting a visit.

Would Brockers be a good fit for the Rams?

Brockers is considered by many to be the best defensive tackle in the draft, potentially the best defensive lineman, inside or out. He surprised the football world with his decision to enter the draft after his redshirt sophomore season. A first-round grade from the draft advisory committee changed his mind. The film does not lie, and he has the potential to be a top ten pick, despite a relatively short college career.

by Ryan Van Bibber

Michael Brockers, a defensive tackle from LSU, is rising up draft boards because of his stature (6-foot-6, 306 pounds). His size alone gives offensive lines something to worry about as a run defender, and Brockers is explosive enough to draw attention away from Charles Johnson and Greg Hardy as pass rushers on the edge. The only thing the Panthers would have to be concerned about is a small sample-size when it comes to tape; Brockers, a redshirt sophomore, has played just one (albeit great) season (47 tackles and 9.5 tackles for loss).

by NFL Playbook Staff

Raiders at CES Mini-Camp during Lockout

May 25, 2011, By David Goldman, AP

For perhaps the first time since the lockout was imposed on March 12, a glimmer of NFL competition took place on a football field on Wednesday.

Members of the Oakland Raiders squared off in 7-on-7 drills with players from other teams at a workout in Georgia, NFL.com reported.

About 33 Raiders had joined DL Richard Seymour in Buford, Ga., this week for workouts.

On Wednesday, players from other teams joined them in light drills. NFL.com reported that more than 50 players were participating.

Competitive Edge Sports founder Chip Smith and trainer Tom Shaw helped organize the workout.

Rookie Joe Webb leads Vikings to shock win over Eagles

(Reuters) - Untried rookie quarterback, and CES Client, Joe Webb led the Minnesota Vikings to a shocking 24-14 upset victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Tuesday.

Making his first NFL start in place of the injured Brett Favre, Webb threw for 195 yards without an interception and ran for a touchdown.

Adrian Peterson ran for 118 yards and a score as the Vikings (6-9) snapped the explosive Eagles' three-game winning streak.

"You always have to have composure as a quarterback," Webb told reporters.

"You always have to show (your team mates) that you have confidence no matter the score. My team mates were rallying behind me the whole game and I have to give those guys credit."

Philadelphia (10-5), who clinched the NFC East Division with the New York Giants' loss on Sunday, were coming off a stunning comeback from 21 points down in the final eight minutes to beat the Giants last week.

MVP candidate Michael Vick threw for 263 yards and accounted for two touchdowns against Minnesota but was held in check and sacked six times.

He also threw an interception and spilled two fumbles as he was harassed all game by the visiting defense.

"You have to take the good with the bad," said Vick, who limped most of the night and appeared to suffer a minor injury early.

"I've got to do a better job of protecting the football. The thing to do now is to regroup, look at our mistakes and get better.

The Eagles had a chance to clinch a bye in the first round of the playoffs by winning their final two games of the season and having the Chicago Bears lose their finale, but fell short.

Minnesota defensive back Antoine Winfield forced a fumble from Vick and returned it 45 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter. Webb added a nine-yard score in the third to give the Vikings a 17-7 lead.

Vick scored on a 10-yard run to pull the Eagles within 17-14 with 10:17 remaining but the Vikings responded with a 60-yard drive that led to Peterson's game-clinching 1-yard TD.

Peterson returned to action after he was sidelined with a thigh injury in last week's loss to the Bears.

Favre suffered a concussion in that game and has said his career would come to a close after the Week 17 season finale whether he played or not.

The game was the first Tuesday contest in the NFL since 1946. It was originally scheduled for Sunday but postponed due to snow blizzards in Philadelphia.

(Editing by John O'Brien)

CES Client, Mike Williams, makes outstanding comeback!

Check out this article about CES Client, Mike Williams. With the help of Chip Smith and trainers at Competitive Edge Sports, Mike was able to enter back into the NFL for the comeback everyone will remember!

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Previous broken legs solidified resolve of Miami Dolphins rookie cornerback Nolan Carroll

Only one thought raced through Nolan Carroll's mind: "Not again."

Four years earlier, Carroll's senior season at Clay High School, southwest of Jacksonville in Green Cove Springs, ended in the second game of the season when he broke his right tibia, or shin bone.

Now here he was, a senior cornerback and captain at the University of Maryland, sitting shocked and expressionless on the Byrd Stadium turf last Sept. 12, going through a painful episode of deja vu: Broken right tibia and fibula after being inadvertently leg-whipped by teammate Derek Drummond.

Again, done for the season — in just the second game of the season .

"It was right below the place where I did it in high school," said Carroll, the Dolphins rookie cornerback who had two tackles and defended a pass in Saturday's 10-7 exhibition victory over Tampa Bay. "Both freak accidents."

The first break was painful but routine. The second almost cost him his career.

"It was a pretty graphic compound fracture," said Maryland strength and conditioning coach Dwight Galt, who aided Carroll on the field. "It didn't break through the sock, but the bulge there was pretty gross. Of his 10 teammates, five of them went over there and they said, 'Oh (shoot),' and turned around and walked away because they couldn't take it."

Instead of finishing his senior season and proving to NFL scouts he was worthy of a second-round pick, Carroll was raced to Washington Adventist Hospital for emergency surgery.

"They said I wouldn't be walking without crutches until three months after," Carroll said of doctors. "They were anticipating I'd start running by late April, May."

The Terrapins, 8-5 in 2008, collapsed to 2-10 without their leader.

"It hit everybody hard," said nose tackle Travis Ivey, who is in Dolphins camp as an undrafted free agent. "I kind of snapped, because you know, he was one of our emotional leaders, someone I looked up to."

But Carroll, whose mother was a lieutenant commander in the Navy and his father a senior master sergeant in the Air Force, "never let negative thoughts enter my head," he said.

Instead, Carroll was off crutches after just 1½ months of physical therapy.

He moved to Atlanta in December to rehab and train with Chip Smith, who helped former San Francisco 49ers running back Garrison Hearst return from a similarly gruesome ankle fracture.

"He came in and absolutely attacked workouts — six days a week, religiously," Smith said of Carroll. "It was hard work, he was in pain, but he really wanted it."

Carroll didn't participate in drills at the NFL Scouting Combine in late February but he performed at Maryland's Pro Day on March 11, running the day's fastest 40-yard dash of the day, 4.39 seconds.

Still, many NFL teams were wary of drafting him. The Dolphins brought Carroll to their training facility to check him out.

"We researched the injury, very, very thoroughly," coach Tony Sparano said.

Only after getting to know him personally, Sparano said, were the Dolphins willing to "take a stab" at Carroll in the draft, selecting him in the fifth round (145th overall) with the pick they got from the 49ers in exchange for Ted Ginn Jr.

Sparano said that, "no question," the team believes it got a steal.

"Obviously, you don't know if any of these things can re-occur," Sparano said of the injury. "But from our standpoint, we felt really good when he was there for us in the fifth round."

Although Carroll (5-feet-11, 204 pounds) played just one full season at cornerback at Maryland after switching from receiver, he has worked his way into the top-five rotation at cornerback for the Dolphins and also had a 27-yard kickoff return Saturday night. With Will Allen's recent knee surgery knocking him out for several weeks, Carroll could be the team's nickel corner right away.

Carroll admitted he was "nervous" about getting hit in his first game Saturday, and still has to pinch himself to make sure that he really is in the NFL, and not dreaming.

"It was incredible, man," Carroll said after the game. "Just being here, being a part of an NFL team, it was one of those things that didn't hit me until now."

Whatever happens in his career, Carroll has earned a lot of respect in his locker room.

"Every time I see him in the cold tub," Ivey said, "I say, 'I don't know how you did it, man.' "

CES NFL Combine Coach, Pete Jenkins, works with Rams during pre-season prep

CES Defensive Line Coach, Pete Jenkins, worked with the Rams D-Line during their pre-season training camp. CES is proud to have Coach Jenkins back at our facility for the 2011 NFL Combine Training. During our 2010 Combine Training, Coach Jenkins worked diligently with our clients to improve their skill work and saw great results. He worked with Jeff Owens, D'Anthony Smith and Kade Weston- all players that are looking great this season.

Coach Pete Jenkins, known by many of his players as the Two-Gapper, has over 37 years of coaching experience. He coached in the 2009 Pro Bowl on Defense, and prior to that, he coached the Philadelphia Eagles Defensive Line. He has also led the defenses at multiple Division 1 powerhouse collegiate programs. Coach Jenkins is known for his tough work ethic but also for mentoring his players off of the field. We are very excited to have Coach Jenkins back at our facility for 2011 NFL Combine training.