David DeJesus singled sharply to right field in the eighth inning and Darwin Barney sprinted from second base. Third base coach David Bell sent him home with the potential tying run. Whoops!INDIANAPOLIS – Manti Te’o’s first appearance on a football field since the BCS championship game didn’t go as well as planned Monday.
The Notre Dame star and Heisman Trophy runner-up was clocked at 4.82 seconds in the 40-yard dash. NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock had said Sunday anything faster than 4.7 would be “phenomenal.” Anything 4.8 or over would be a “concern.”
The workout comes more than a month after Te’o’s highly publicized online romance with a girlfriend was exposed and that Te’o was a victim of the hoax.
Since then, his draft stock has fallen and he’s done a handful of one-on-one interviews and took questions Saturday in one of the craziest scenes in NFL scouting combine history.
Some wonder whether the story has become a distraction, and Te’o’s subpar performance Monday didn’t help.
