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Tripp and Coyle look good on TSN's homepage
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"Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - Half the FCS conferences may not have one player selected in this week's NFL Draft, let alone two.
That makes a school with multiple selections few and far between.
So consider the University of Montana, which not only expects to have two players selected in the three-day draft but a pair who lined up next to each other the last two seasons.
Impressive.
Outside linebacker Jordan Tripp and inside linebacker Brock Coyle are a special combo from UM. Tripp is the prototype for a hardnosed 'backer - a two-time Buck Buchanan Award finalist with determination and range - and many will say Coyle is coming off an even better senior season than his teammate and fellow defensive captain.
Tripp is considered a third- or fourth-round possibility, while Coyle is more a late-round choice, though since the end of the season he is one of the biggest risers among FCS players.
"He had a fantastic senior year," Montana coach Mick Delaney said of Coyle. "Our three linebackers (Coyle, Tripp, and senior J.P. Kanongata'a), as I said during the season, was as good of a group as there was as any team at the FCS level. The success of our team on defense was related directly to the play of those three linebackers."
Tripp, a chiseled 6-foot-3, 237 pounds, was a hometown player who stayed in Missoula to play at Montana. It is believed he would become the first UM player out of Missoula to be selected in the draft.
The All-American played in the Senior Bowl and drew notice at the NFL Combine by posting the fastest 20-yard shuttle run (3.96 seconds) since A.J. Hawk in 2006
Teammates picked Coyle (6-1, 235) as Montana's defensive MVP after his senior season, when he was the Grizzlies' top tackler with 125 stops, and had a team- high five forced fumbles. He played in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl and had a strong pro day, including a 4.6-second clocking in the 40-yard dash.
Montana is generally accustomed to sending players to the NFL unlike any other FCS program now that Appalachian State is moving on to the FBS. There were nine from the Big Sky school on rosters last season, and the Grizzlies had a pair of draft choices in both 2010 and '12.
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"Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - Half the FCS conferences may not have one player selected in this week's NFL Draft, let alone two.
That makes a school with multiple selections few and far between.
So consider the University of Montana, which not only expects to have two players selected in the three-day draft but a pair who lined up next to each other the last two seasons.
Impressive.
Outside linebacker Jordan Tripp and inside linebacker Brock Coyle are a special combo from UM. Tripp is the prototype for a hardnosed 'backer - a two-time Buck Buchanan Award finalist with determination and range - and many will say Coyle is coming off an even better senior season than his teammate and fellow defensive captain.
Tripp is considered a third- or fourth-round possibility, while Coyle is more a late-round choice, though since the end of the season he is one of the biggest risers among FCS players.
"He had a fantastic senior year," Montana coach Mick Delaney said of Coyle. "Our three linebackers (Coyle, Tripp, and senior J.P. Kanongata'a), as I said during the season, was as good of a group as there was as any team at the FCS level. The success of our team on defense was related directly to the play of those three linebackers."
Tripp, a chiseled 6-foot-3, 237 pounds, was a hometown player who stayed in Missoula to play at Montana. It is believed he would become the first UM player out of Missoula to be selected in the draft.
The All-American played in the Senior Bowl and drew notice at the NFL Combine by posting the fastest 20-yard shuttle run (3.96 seconds) since A.J. Hawk in 2006
Teammates picked Coyle (6-1, 235) as Montana's defensive MVP after his senior season, when he was the Grizzlies' top tackler with 125 stops, and had a team- high five forced fumbles. He played in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl and had a strong pro day, including a 4.6-second clocking in the 40-yard dash.
Montana is generally accustomed to sending players to the NFL unlike any other FCS program now that Appalachian State is moving on to the FBS. There were nine from the Big Sky school on rosters last season, and the Grizzlies had a pair of draft choices in both 2010 and '12.
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