Syracuse Football: Alton Robinson salvages week with dominant Senior Bowl

Former Syracuse football star Alton Robinson salvaged a so-so week with a dominant Senior Bowl performance. Here are all the details.

This week Alton Robinson got the opportunity to lace up his Syracuse football pads one final time at the Senior Bowl.

According to scouts, Robinson had an extremely uneven week during practice. In those opportunities Alton got smacked around by some of the best seniors in all of college football.

On Saturday he salvaged a golden opportunity with a dominant performance in the Senior Bowl.

Early in the second quarter of the Senior Bowl, Alton Robinson was lined up over the left tackle for the first time in this game and showed a beautiful inside swim move and brought down Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts for his first sack of the game.

Robinson followed that up a quarter later in the third with an impressive burst off the line of scrimmage throwing the Oregon offensive tackle like a rag doll as he secured his second sack of the day.

On top of his splash plays that’ll show up in the box score, he also had a ton of good reps overall.

Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia and former Syracuse football graduate assistant lined Alton up all over the defensive formation: outside on the right tackle, outside on the left tackle, and even a few times inside as well.

Robinson would’ve added at least one more sack to his total, but he was held on the play.

Ultimately this wasn’t a perfect Senior Bowl week for Alton, but he accomplished what he wanted to. He cleared his name among NFL teams by explaining his side of the story in his own words (full details here).

In addition, Robinson raised his NFL draft stock with a superstar performance on gameday in the Senior Bowl. Heading into Senior Bowl week, Robinson was considered a mid to late day two pick (second to third-rounder) after this game he likely locked that in.

Up next for Robinson is the NFL Scouting Combine at the end of February and then he’ll follow that up with a trip back home for the Syracuse Pro Day which is normally scheduled in March (date and time haven’t been released by the University yet).