Former Wolverine makes NFL All-Combine Offensive Team

The former Wolverines center got a special honor coming out of Indianapolis this week.

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So with the NFL Scouting Combine in the books, multiple Michigan players put on a show.

Donovan Peoples-Jones with his vertical and broad jumps. Khaleke Hudson with his impressive bench press. Despite not working out, Josh Uche continued to get mentions.

But as the NFL released its All-Combine Offensive team, it wasn’t Peoples-Jones who made the list of eleven. It was the player that’s getting mentioned as a late-first-rounder in the upcoming NFL Draft.

Though he’s a center through-and-through, and will certainly be drafted as such, Cesar Ruiz can play multiple roles, as evidenced by his first foray into starting college football at right guard in 2017, when Michael Onwenu missed several games due to injury. Well, the NFL felt intent on getting Ruiz into it’s group, so it put him on the All-Combine Offensive Team, but at left guard.

While it’s somewhat surprising to see that Peoples-Jones — who posted an elite athleticism score according to the NFL’s analytics arm, Next Gen Stats — didn’t get the nod, that Ruiz got such a mention shows that he clearly made the right choice by leaving early.