Rutgers WR Sanu runs a slow 40

INDIANAPOLIS -- Team after team will tell you that 90 percent of their evaluation is based on a player's game tape. Mohamed Sanu is praying that's true. The Rutgers wideout ran, unofficially, a 4.65 40-yard dash Sunday at the NFL Combine. The 6-foot-2, 211-pound Sanu had 115 catches for the Scarlet Knights in 2011. Given the Patriots' need at wideout and Bill Belichick's respect for the program at Rutgers under Greg Schiano, Sanu seems like a player the Patriots might have interest in. With that 4.65, Sanu may have run himself right out of the first round if he isn't able to rebound in the next two months. Sanu needed to run at least in the 4.5s to put to bed concerns that he won't be able to separate from coverage in the NFL. Now, despite the fact he's a solid and personable young man with all that impressive production, Sanufacesan uphill battle to convince teams he's going to be successful at the highest level. In a pre-Combine conference call, this is what NFL Network draft expert Mike Mayock said, "Sanu had 115 catches this year. Some of them were sick. Just really impressive, one-handed, beautiful catches. So he's a guy I want to like and believe in, but he's not sudden. He doesn't have great acceleration, and in the NFL, everything's going to be contested. That's where you get nervous with some of these big-bodied guys. If they can't get open, is every throw going to be contested?''

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