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All-star game boost: Five FCS risers for the NFL Draft
2 years ago - Feb 05, 2022, 11:00 PM
In the last two weeks, though, the large contingent of former FCS players at the biggest events - the NFLPA Collegiate, East-West Shrine and Senior bowls - proved a big performance on game day was just as valuable for their 2022 NFL Draft stock. While there's one game remaining on the all-star game circuit - the HBCU Legacy Bowl on Feb. 19 in New Orleans - it will be hard to top the many recent performances. Well, yes, because the 6-foot-6¾, 330-pound Penning was all the talk among offensive linemen at the Senior Bowl, where he was named the National team's offensive practice player of the week in a vote of the opposing American team's defensive linemen and linebackers.