The 2023 NFL Combine is taking place this week in Indianapolis, giving prospective players a chance to showcase their abilities on the field while coaches and general managers ask them all sorts of questions off the field, trying to determine if they want to spend millions of dollars to get them on their team.
One of the best parts about this week is the platform it gives to players to hype themselves up and try to sell their abilities to prospective teams. This is particularly entertaining when you get a guy — Oregon Ducks cornerback Christian Gonzalez, for example — who may be soft spoken and humble.
I’ve had the opportunity to talk to Gonzalez a number of times over the past year in Eugene, and he’s never been someone to talk about himself over his teammates. So when he was asked at the combine why a team should draft him, or what he brings to the table, I was curious to hear his answer.
Oregon CB Christian Gonzales on what a team is going to get from him if they draft him #NFLDraft #NFLCombine pic.twitter.com/DLuYrB8V6u
— Matt Holder (@MHolder95) March 2, 2023
One of the most notable things that Gonzalez said was that he can do “multiple things from different positions.” That is something that Dan Lanning and Oregon’s staff has been stressing since they got to Eugene; the aspect of being multiple on the field and versatile in your abilities. We saw Gonzalez move around in the secondary in 2022, working either outside or inside depending on the matchup, and he excelled in both spots.
Might NFL teams look at that and bump up his draft stock? I wouldn’t be surprised.
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