{"id":43609,"date":"2017-02-23T03:53:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T07:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=43609"},"modified":"2017-02-21T14:09:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:09:21","slug":"three-former-rockets-to-attend-nfl-combine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_23_2017\/three-former-rockets-to-attend-nfl-combine","title":{"rendered":"Three former Rockets to attend NFL Combine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rocket football stars Kareem Hunt, Michael Roberts and Treyvon Hester will participate in the 2017 NFL Combine Tuesday, Feb. 28, through Monday, March 6, in Indianapolis. <\/p>\n<p>The NFL Combine is a highly selective venue for college players to display their skills in front of hundreds of coaches and executives. This is the highest number of Toledo players that has ever been invited to the prestigious event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=43659\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43659\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/three-rockets-at-nfl-combine.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-43659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/three-rockets-at-nfl-combine.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/three-rockets-at-nfl-combine-300x201.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>\u201cMany of our players had the opportunity to play in post-season games like the Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine Bowl, and really helped themselves by playing well,\u201d said Toledo Head Coach Jason Candle. \u201cNow Kareem, Michael and Treyvon will have a chance to show what they can do at the NFL Combine. We will also have our Pro Day here [Monday, March 20], which will give our players more evaluation pieces to add to their resum\u00e9s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunt, Toledo\u2019s all-time leading rusher with 4,945 yards, ran for 118 yards and was named the North\u2019s Most Outstanding Player at the 2017 Reese\u2019s Senior Bowl Jan. 28.\u00a0Roberts, a first-team All-America tight end, also played in the game, catching one pass for four yards. <\/p>\n<p>Roberts joined former two-time All-Mid-American Conference offensive lineman Storm Norton at the East-West Shrine Bowl Jan. 21. <\/p>\n<p>Hester, a three-time All-MAC defensive tackle, was invited to play in the Shrine Bowl, but he was sidelined with an injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kareem Hunt, Michael Roberts and Treyvon Hester will be at the 2017 NFL Combine Tuesday, Feb. 28, through Monday, March 6, in Indianapolis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,5,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43660,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43609\/revisions\/43660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}