{"id":536,"date":"2013-02-01T18:24:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=536"},"modified":"2013-02-01T18:29:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T23:29:57","slug":"usc-quarterback-matt-barkley-will-not-throw-at-nfl-combine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/02\/01\/usc-quarterback-matt-barkley-will-not-throw-at-nfl-combine\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Barkley will not throw at NFL combine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-537\" alt=\"mattbarkley\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/02\/mattbarkley.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/02\/mattbarkley.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/02\/mattbarkley-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Barkley was part of a disappointing USC Trojans team this year but the quarterback does not believe that should reflect negatively on his NFL future.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley suffered a shoulder injury in a loss to UCLA that caused him to miss games against Notre Dame and Georgia Tech. Barkley was not exactly the picture of quarterback efficiency this season throwing 15 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>While Barkley will attend the NFL combine in Indianapolis he will not do any throwing. He will throw at a pro day on USC&#8217;s campus with Robert Woods sometime before the April draft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems to be the trend not to (throw at the combine), and I don&#8217;t feel that I have to,&#8221; Barkley said Friday on &#8220;The Herd&#8221; on ESPN Radio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t lost any confidence in myself and haven&#8217;t doubted my ability to play quarterback, not once.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barkley was projected to be a first round player last season but opted to return to USC for his senior season. With USC entering the year ranked No. 1 Barkley was an early favorite for the Heisman.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley&#8217;s draft status this year is all over the place. Some analysts suggest he is still the top quarterback in the draft while others contend he is nothing more then a third-round pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Barkley was part of a disappointing USC Trojans team this year but the quarterback does not believe that should reflect negatively on his NFL future. Barkley suffered a shoulder injury in a loss to UCLA that caused him to miss games against Notre Dame and Georgia Tech. Barkley was not exactly the picture of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[65],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaafb-news","tag-matt-barkley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}