Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Marshall Football: Sports Illustrated highlights Vinny Curry

Marshall defensive end Vinny Curry was featured in a Sports Illustrated article about college football players rising up NFL teams draft boards. This is what SI had to say about Curry:

Vinny Curry, DE-OLB, Marshall: One of the best kept secrets of the 2012 NFL Draft plays for the Thundering Herd and is impressing league decision-makers every weekend. In seven games this season Curry has totaled 9.5 sacks, 17.5 tackles for loss and 42 tackles. He also has a safety and two blocked kicks to his credit this year. On Saturday, Curry posted 3.5 sacks against Rice, 3.0 of which came on third down. He has the skills to be used out of a three-point stance as a one-gap defensive end and Curry is also getting a lot of consideration as a 3-4 outside linebacker. He looks like the next first round pick from Marshall.

Read the whole article here.

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