DRAFTING PLANS
games in which he threw for at least one score. In addition to becoming the first UW quarter- back to ever throw for more than 3,000 yards in a season, Wilson also set the NCAA's single- season mark for passing efficiency (191.78), sur- passing Hawaii's Colt Brennan.
the combined scoring output (79 points) of the memorable 1963 Rose Bowl between UW and USC — Toon and Wilson have taken divergent paths. Toon stayed on the West Coast and trained in Los Angeles with Athletes' Performance, while Wilson moved his base of operation to Braden- ton, Fla., and the IMG Madden Football Acad- emy. "In my situation,'' Toon said, "I was out there the day after the Rose Bowl until the day before I left for the combine in Indianapolis. Everything I was doing was combine-specific.'' Toon's training program was designed to simulate the combine testing. Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III have been among the higher profile collegians involved with Athletes' Perfor- mance.
"The combine preparation process has be-
come bigger and bigger the last four or five years,'' Toon said. "It's a larger business, and guys are spending a lot more time getting ready for the combine.''
While training at the Athletes' Performance Institute's facility at The Home Depot Center — where the Badgers practiced for the Rose Bowl — Toon did have one minor physical setback. "It was not an injury — I tweaked my foot a lit-
tle bit — but it definitely was not an injury,'' said Toon, who had surgery to repair a stress fracture in his foot prior to his senior year. "It did slow me down a little bit. I didn't get to
do as much as I would have liked to do during the training. But I was able to compete and run at the combine. At the end of the day, that's what matters.''
Toon, meanwhile, caught a game-high nine
passes for 104 yards in the Rose Bowl, including the 18th touchdown of his career; one fewer than his dad caught during his three years of compe- tition (1982-84) at Wisconsin. Since that 45-38 loss to the Ducks — topping
Toon ran a 4.54 in the 40 at the NFL Scouting Combine. He also did the vertical jump (37.5) in Indy. The rest of the testing will be saved for Madison where "I feel more comfortable doing that.''
There were no surprises during the one-on- one combine interviews, Toon noted.
37
NEIL AMENT
