INDIANAPOLIS (AP) a Manti Te'o's first appearance on a soccer field considering that the BCS tournament game did not go as well as prepared Monday. The Notre Dame star and Heisman Trophy runner-up was clocked at 4.82 seconds in the 40-yard dash. NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock had said Sunday such a thing faster than 4.7 will be "phenomenal." Any such thing 4.8 or over will be a "concern." The workout came higher than a month after Te'o's highly-publicized online relationship with a girlfriend was exposed as a hoax and he was a target of the hoax. Since then, he's done a small number of 1-on-1 interviews and took questions Saturday in just one of the craziest scenes in NFL scouting mix history. Reporters crowded across the podium, lining up ten deep to listen to Te'o speak one more time in what happened. Some have wondered if the embarrassing story was a distraction leading into the national championship game, in which Te'o and his Notre Dame teammates played poorly in a loss to Alabama. The linebacker said Saturday the joke had no effect on that game. And he demands it has maybe not influenced his preparation for the mix, possibly. But rather of getting those problems to rest with an excellent showing Monday, Te'o fell lacking his objectives again a' and not only in the 40. Te'o participated in five of the seven workouts, looking out of the bench press and 60-yard taxi, and did not end placed among the top five at his position in any of them. His vertical leap was 33 inches, much below Southern Mississippi's Jamie Collins' positional most readily useful of 41A. Te'o got 113 inches in the broad jump. He finished the three-cone drill in 7.13 moments, well off the rate set by Missouri's Zaviar Gooden (6.71). Te'o completed the 20-yard taxi in 4.27 seconds, again behind Gooden's 4.18. Following the work outs, which were closed to the press, Te'o informed NFL Network that he might have done better a' and that he will at next month's Pro Day at Notre Dame. Scouts also have been curious to observe how former LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu would accomplish in Indy after getting knocked off his school team last summer and took the whole time off. Mathieu did not prosper Monday, either. He did only four reps on the 225-pound bench press, linked with Appalachian State's Demetrius McCray for the cheapest among all defensive backs. The defensive backs can finish their workouts Tuesday, the closing day of the combine.
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