Mel Kiper on Oklahoma’s Perrion Winfrey: ‘Wreaking Havoc, Very Disruptive Player’

ESPN NFL Draft guru Mel Kiper loves him some Perrion Winfrey.

Kiper participated in a nationwide convention name on Thursday and expressed an appreciation each for the way Winfrey has excelled within the pre-draft course of in addition to how he performed noseguard final 12 months at Oklahoma.

“Perrion Winfrey had a fantastic Senior Bowl,” Kiper stated (simply earlier than the 22-minute mark within the video above). “The best way they utilized him at Oklahoma didn’t permit for the massive numbers. However boy, I’ll inform you, he introduced his sport face to play soccer in Cellular (AL, residence of the Senior Bowl). Sport day, he was on the market wrecking havoc. He actually helped his inventory, I consider, through the course of, and I’d say he’s a stable mid-second (spherical), late-second, at worst.”

Winfrey was the MVP of the Senior Bowl and was a standout in practices main as much as the sport. He additionally put up good numbers each on the NFL Scouting Mix and at his professional day in Norman.

Winfrey has stated in a number of interviews that NFL scouts and coaches gave him ample indication that his time at noseguard the final two seasons in Alex Grinch’s protection didn’t maximize his abilities.

That performed out as Winfrey stood out in one-on-one conditions in Cellular, and that prompted Kiper to take one other take a look at the previous junior school switch.

“Winfrey, by means of the method, did a heck of a job,” Kiper stated. “Should you went again at Oklahoma, you would see the way in which they moved him round. When he was in the appropriate spot and place, even by means of double groups, he labored his approach by means of. He was explosive into the backfield, very disruptive participant.”

In his newest mock draft launched on Wednesday (requires subscription), Kiper initiatives Winfrey as the primary Sooner taken off the board — by the Minnesota Vikings with 14th decide of the second spherical, No. 46 total.

“Winfrey is extra of a basic 3-technique penetrating sort out, and he was one of many greatest risers after his efficiency on the Senior Bowl,” Kiper wrote. “Linemen could not block him. He did not at all times get the prospect to create havoc at Oklahoma. Winfrey could possibly be nice subsequent to nostril sort out Dalvin Tomlinson for Minnesota.”