Former Colorado State linebacker Mychal Sisson hopes to turn NFL scouts' heads ( Denver Post )

FORT COLLINS???When facing the prospect of an uncertain football future, Mychal Sisson prefers to keep it simple.

"I just want to prove I still got it," the former Colorado State linebacker said. "A lot of people in the NFL, they're maybe iffy about me, about my ankle, about what I can do and all that. But I wanted to come out and show them it's cool, my ankle's cool, that I can still play."

Sisson was one of the NFL hopefuls who participated in Colorado State's pro timing day Wednesday. He played in only four games last season after a right ankle injury sustained against Northern Colorado.

Sisson had a plate, screw and "a tightrope" device - a fiber-wire with a button on each end that helps hold the ankle

in place - inserted into the joint to repair the injury. He underwent surgery the same day he sustained the injury and managed to return for the team's final three games.

"And they said other than the fracture I had basically ruptured and torn everything else you could in there," Sisson said. "I wanted to make it back last season because it was my last year. I had to get back on the field. (Wednesday) I just wanted to show I'm all the way back."

Scouts from eight teams, including the Broncos, were on hand to work out eight Rams from this past season's team, three former Rams from previous years and Northern Colorado tackle Lee Barbiasz.

Sisson measured less than 6-feet tall and weighed in at only 211 pounds. His times in the 40-yard dash ? in the 4.9s Wednesday ? are not what NFL teams want from their safeties. He is considered too small to be a linebacker for most teams.

"I'm an in-betweener, not really a safety, not really a linebacker. I know that's what they think," Sisson said. "They have concerns about my size and maybe think I'm not fast enough to play safety. Right now I'm a utility guy, wherever they need me I'll play.

"I'm doing whatever it takes to get on the field, whatever

Former Colorado State linebacker Mychal Sisson performs during Wednesday's pro day workout for NFL scouts at the Rams' indoor football practice facility in Fort Collins. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post)

it takes, I'm going to be that guy."

Sisson has been working out in Phoenix in recent weeks to prepare for Wednesday's affair. All he can do now is wait and hope somebody saw enough to give him a chance.

Of all of the former Rams who took part Wednesday, it was running back Raymond Carter, who may have made the biggest impression. Carter weighed in at 217 pounds, ran his two 40s in the 4.4s, and also showed good strength when he put up 225 pounds 26 times in the bench press. Those totals would have put him in the upper tier of the running back workouts at the NFL's scouting combine in Indianapolis last month.

"I think I showed up today," Carter said. "You want to give them a little something, and I think I did that."

Jeff Legwold: jlegwold@denverpost.com

Source: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_20126263

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