Quote:I still remember Mikel's 3 TD game against the Jags a few years ago. The Lions came to Jax and beat the crap out of the Jags on their own field, if I remember correctly.


Leshoure showed that he still has some speed at the veteran combine; he ran relatively the same 40 yard dash time that he did at his rookie combine. I'll be surprised if he doesn't at least get a tryout after the draft.

 

That game was definitely the high water mark of Mikel Leshoure's career and was the Lions best all around game of what became a very disappointing season.   As well as the Lions played that afternoon,  4 years earlier in Detroit in what became an 0-16 season for the Lions,  MJD scored 3 TD's and the Jags beat the Lions to such an extent that if it was a boxing match,  it would have been stopped before the end of the first half.

 

According to the following site,  Mikel Leshoure's best time at the veteran combine a few weeks ago was 4.75.   He ran around a 4.60 in Indianapolis in the winter of 2011 but the surface that the veteran combine was held on was considered  slow:

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/24053...r-reaction

 

While Mikel Leshoure didn't have a good pre-season last summer,  which contributed heavily to him being released,  I was surprised no other team gave him an opportunity.   Even considering Leshoure not having much Special Teams value.   The Colts and Bears worked him out but decided not to sign Leshoure.    I hope he gets another opportunity.   If it doesn't happen in 2015,  it probably will never happen.  

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