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Day one of the Senior Bowl Practices are in the books for the North team coached by the Bengals’ coaching staff.   Here are some brief notes from today’s practice.

All three quarterbacks are impressive under center. The main negative on the day was a fumble by Graham Harrell in which the ball slipped from his hand on a shotgun formation. Rhett Bomar is working well and Nathan Brown is making the adjustment under center.

Despite his small size, Kory Sheets looks like a gamer. One thing impressive about him was the fact that he never stopped. Even after the play was supposed to be done, he kept dragging forward.   Good determination out of the kid.

I like Phil Loadholt as a right tackle.   He did well in the one on one drills vs. Defensive Ends.   Of course this wasn’t that long of a showing, but I liked what I saw.

The receivers seemed solid and Derrick Williams did a good job making an adjustment on a throw that came up kind of short. Overall they make good cuts.

The coverage was kind of soft from the secondary, but they closed quick.   Keenan Lewis would’ve had an Illegal Contact penalty in game as he was beat by Ramses Barden.

Evander Hood had people beat quite a bit with his spin move, which is very impressive at 298 lbs. Give credit to Kraig Urbik on one of the Hood spin attempts in which Urbik re-adjust his feet and got Hood out of the pocket.

Larry English and Will Davis seem fast, as does Tim Jamison.   But again, still early and it’s tough to tell. English would have had a sack in the team drills as well.

Ramses Barden is a good receiver. Good size and he had a good catch in traffic on a ball thrown by Bomar that came out at the 3/4 level.

Alex Mack and Max Unger had, in my opinion, inconsistent practices.   They alternated center and guard, with both getting beat at times.

B.J. Raji and Ron Brace have both proven they are great at what they do. Both quick off the snap, and powerful. Raji even shows quickness with a spin move he used to get past Mack pretty easily. Brace is the mauler that just uses his will power to get where he wants.

But the guy I felt was most impressive had to be Mitch King from Iowa. Mayock kept stating that he is an undersized defensive tackle. King is a smart player that knows how to get in the backfield. During one on one drills, he was pretty much unstoppable. In the team drills, he also would have had a sack right up the middle. I’m intrigued to see where he plays at the next level.