I’m leaving Thursday morning, catching an 8:30 flight heading out of Atlanta. I’m not exactly sure what’s going to happen day-to-day at the Combine. I know Thursday when I get down there, I’m getting weighed in, measured and get my height taken. Basically, it’s not really physical tests, just other tests such as doing X-rays, checking to see if you’re healthy, and things like that. I don’t think we actually get to the physical part until Friday and Saturday. So tomorrow we just walk through, I guess, and do interviews.

I feel pretty prepared. A lot of things we’re doing down here were geared towards working out for the Combine. Doing a lot of the drills we’ll be going through, I feel pretty prepared for all of it. We’ve been working on speed and quickness. I feel shiftier, I feel faster, I feel more flexible and I’m still maintaining a weight of around 225. So I think I feel pretty prepared.

Quarterbacks do everything at the Combine I believe, except the bench press. We've got the 40-yard dash, 20-yard shuttle, the 3-cone drill, vertical jump, broad jump, and I think that’s it. I plan on doing all of those, I don’t see any reason to sit out on any of them. I feel as far as quarterbacks go that I can really be in the top percentile in all of those things.

I am real interested in running the 40. I’ve been working on my speed and quickness down here, and I’m real anxious to see how far I’ve come. Some people do opt out of running in Indianapolis. Some people say that you get slow times up there, but yet it’s supposed to be one of the fastest turfs and the fastest turf in the NFL, but I’m gonna take my chances, so we’ll see. The last time I ran the 40 was actually two springs ago when I ran a 4.55. I didn’t run it last year because of basketball.

Over the years, I’ve talked to pretty much all of the Tech players who went through the Combine while I was at Virginia Tech. Last year after the Combine, I asked them about it, asked them how it went. Also, I talked to Coach [Kevin] Rogers, for one, about the Combine because he coached Donovan [McNabb] when he went to the Combine. He’s been up there a couple of times, he’s been around a while, so he’s seen what goes on and what they’re looking for.

I think Jim Davis, Jon Dunn, Vinnie Fuller and Eric Green are all going to be there.

I haven’t had any serious injuries since I’ve been in college. If you look at the consecutive starts, that says a lot about my health since I’ve been in school. There isn’t anything that has really happened that would hinder me or would prevent playing time. I know I’ve been blessed to be so healthy and to remain so healthy throughout my career. I’ve taken some pretty hard hits and been in some situations where there could have been some injuries. I mean, there’s going to be nicks and bruises of course, but to go through three seasons and never really have an injury that’s stopped me from playing has really been a blessing. I know I’ve been blessed in that aspect.

I’ll be coming back on Sunday, but I’ll be done on Saturday. Then we have the Pro Days in Blacksburg. I’m not even sure when the Pro Days are, I want to say the middle of March, around the 20th.

I watched them play [against Duke[. I was actually watching it with a guy from Florida State and a guy from North Carolina who actually really likes Duke. I was hyped almost the whole second half, I thought they were really competing. When it got closer to the end, I was in like a trance. I was so happy to see Jeff [King] out there doing well, I felt like I was on the bench watching the game. My adrenaline was pumping, it was really exciting. I was glad for the program, happy for the team and Coach Greenberg.