INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- For Clemson receiver Deon Cain, there's nothing tedious about all the timing and testing at the NFL scouting combine.
''It's a great feeling because I'm starting to get into this professional life and I'm loving it every day,'' Cain said.
Cain impressed coaches Saturday with his superior speed and great hands, traits that were particularly apparent in the gauntlet drill at
Lucas Oil Stadium.
That's where receivers stand on one sideline, then spin and catch one from the other direction.
, spin and catch a pass from 10 yards away
Then, catching five more 10-yard passes from alternating directions before coming back the other
, they sprint toward the other sideline
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While Cain was eager to show off his skills Saturday during the on-field sessions with quarterbacks,
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, wide receivers and tight ends
said he's actually enjoyed every aspect of the annual gathering of top college prospects.
''This combine experience has been fun for me. At the end of the day,
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, I love every moment about it
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Cain had a goal of running a sub-4.4-second 40-yard dash after all the speed work he did over the last six weeks at the Exos performance
center in Phoenix, where he added 10 pounds of lean muscle to his 6-foot-1 frame.
He did just that, posting a time of 4.3 seconds Saturday before showing off his route-running skills during the hour-long session that
included top-tier quarterbacks Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson .
''I feel like Exos really prepared me for this moment, who also posted respectable jumps - 33+ inches in the vertical and 9
,'' said Cain
feet, 7 inches in the broad. ''We train hard, prepping me for interviews and everything. I feel like
, train well with great efficiency
they gave us the upper hand, the answers to the test out here and now it's just a routine.
''I'm out here trying my best out here and just trying to do what I know I'm capable of doing.''
Cain, played three seasons at Clemson and was productive receiver for a team that made three playoff
, a projected second-day draft pick
appearances and played in two national championship games.
Cain played in only one of those national championship games. After the regular season of his freshman year, he was suspended for the
College Football Playoff by Tigers coach Dabo Swinney for failing a drug test for marijuana.
Knowing that would come up in interviews with teams this week,
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an issue teams need to worry about.
''It's been great so far, really just getting to know all the coaches, and just show them that I'm smart
,
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off the field, smart on the field and I know football both ways,
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On the field, coachable and confident yet humble.,
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''I can do it all. If you want me to play inside, I can do anything. I said I'm capable of
, outside. If you want me to go down and block
doing anything,'' he said.
And he pledged to never stop trying to improve.
''Now that I'm going on to the next level, I always want to be better and more technically sound because now you're just going against way
better DBs now,'' Cain said.
Whoever picks him, he said, will ''get an efficient,
, hard worker, someone who will go hard every play. I'm just going to be me out there
as long as they let me be me and coach me the right way, they're going to get a great receiver.''
