NFL Combine: Jammie Robinson enjoys solid first day

The 2023 NFL Combine is underway, and former FSU football All-ACC safety Jammie Robinson had a solid first day.

Robinson projects in the top half of the safeties entering the NFL Draft with a 6.21 grade. That grade puts him in the will eventually become an average starter in the NFL category. Robinson’s overall strengths outweigh his physical limitations.

He’s somewhat undersized in height and length but impressed with a 4.59 forty time, as most probably didn’t expect him to not break into the 4.5 range. He had a 1.8-ten-yard split and an impressive 33.50 vertical jump for someone that’s only 5’11”.

The broad jump was less than ideal, but you don’t see football players doing the broad jump in games, so I consider that a worthless event. I’m not sure if he’ll do the three-cone drill, 20-yard shuttle, or bench press.

The latter has little importance for the safety position, and the other two drills likely don’t provide much useful information that translates to a football game. I think the important thing for Robinson was his forty time.

Teams already knew he was undersized and didn’t have a lot of length. However, his forty-time is respectable and should be good enough to see him get drafted no later than the third or fourth round. Robinson is the type of guy that could play in the NFL for a long time and make an impact on special teams as well.

He’s always been a high-volume tackler (led FSU in tackles in both seasons) and solid against the run. He’s incredibly durable and was a vocal leader for his teammates at FSU football for the two years he was there after transferring from South Carolina.

A lot of football teams say that want players that love the game, and I can’t think of a better example than Robinson, which is also why I think he chose to play in FSU’s bowl game. Here’s to hoping Jammie finishes the NFL Combine strong and realizes his dreams of getting drafted by an NFL team.