Kenny McIntosh sets himself apart in Draft with tough pass-blocking
Kenny McIntosh enters the NFL Draft’s deep running back class. If his rushing and receiving aren’t impressive enough, he can block, too.
As McIntosh heads to the NFL Scouting Combine, pro scouts know that he is one of many talented backs in the class.
Check any given NFL Draft ranking list, toggle the ‘running back’ position, and you’ll see just how many other players McIntosh is up against at the position.
Depending on where you look, there are anywhere from 10-12 other College Football running backs ahead of him in the mock draft / rankings of your choice.
Alabama‘s Jahmyr Gibbs and Texas‘s Bijan Robinson seem to be the banner backs in this year’s crop. But that doesn’t mean Kenny McIntosh is out of the hunt for a highly-coveted draft spot.
In addition to the dynamic capabilities he flashed at Georgia as a 1,582-yard career rusher and 861-yard receiver, McIntosh can do some serious work as a textbook pass-blocker.
In fact, Senior Bowl Executive Director Jim Nagy says no other running back in the class can do it like Kenny Mac can:
Georgia’s current status of ‘RBU’ may be up for debate, but Dell McGee still builds monsters in Georgia’s backfield
Alabama fans have a case for that as of late, if you go on NFL production, I suppose.
Georgia can always hang its ‘RUN THE DAMN BALL’ hat on Herschel Walker, Todd Gurley and Nick Chubb.
But in the scope of ‘recency vs resume,’ it does seem like Alabama has more of a claim to that RBU throne as of late.
Nine Bama running backs went in either the first or second round of the NFL Draft from 2011-2021.
I’m not trying to change your mind. You can call Georgia RBU if you want to.
The point is, regardless of where the real ‘RBU’ happens to be, Dell McGee knows what that DNA looks like. He coaches his players to play with it and execute it.
Nagy is correct in giving McGee a shoutout in his praise for Kenny McIntosh’s gritty effort in that pass-blocking drill.
McIntosh may have made his trip to the Senior Bowl worth it with those reps alone. Dell McGee’s expectations and standards at Georgia helped make that possible.
In a loaded running back class like this one, McIntosh will inevitably become a choice in the mind of some General Manager somewhere
And that choice will come down to the skills he possesses in the margin.
What can he do, that the next-best guy can’t do?
Maybe there’s a franchise out there that needs to bolster its pass-blocking in addition to its offensive firepower.
Maybe Todd Monken will tell the Ravens they better draft his former guy.
Whoever makes that choice on Kenny McIntosh, he already answered an important question in Mobile:
‘Can he pass protect?‘
Now let’s see what he can prove at the Combine.
