Scouting the Senior Bowl

[SunsetBengal]

(01-27-2017, 11:55 AM)ochocincos Wrote: I can definitely understand your worry about such a tall center. However, Toth is tall too. Both play with good leverage and have great length to keep defenders at bay and open up lanes.
Elflein makes sense, but if the reports are true about his surprisingly short arm length, I worry he will struggle getting into the body of defenders and push them off the ball. Bodine has 32.5" arm length, which is considered average at best. Elflein supposedly has "average at best" length too, but I'm not sure what that actual measurement is.

An OL can be as strong as an ox, but if he can't get into the body of a longer armed defender, that strength doesn't matter and that OL player will get beaten constantly.

Arm length isn't such a big deal with interior OLmen, as it is with Tackles.  Tackles need that arm length to deal with pass rushers trying to go wide on them.  Centers, dealing more with NTs, need to be able to drive the bigger man off of the ball, and simply keep their body between the defender and the QB on passing plays.