Berry Tramel: Gerald McCoy, Ndamukong Suh the best of the beasts

INDIANAPOLIS — Ndamukong Suh made it to the NFL Combine’s media room Saturday. G.K. McCoy didn’t; he’ll be in today.

Which is a shame. Rarely do King Kong and Godzilla share the same floor.

The beasts of college football 2009, Nebraska’s Suh and Oklahoma’s McCoy, have become the beasts of the NFL offseason. The two best players in the draft, with apologies to Sooner quarterback Sam Bradford, who still might go No. 1 to the Rams but isn’t projected to be the ballplayer the caliber of these two giants.

Former NFL general manager-turned draft analyst Charley Casserly doesn’t call them Kong or ’Zilla. He calls them 1A and 1B.

And you might be surprised who is 1A.

"I ask two questions,” Casserly said of his friends in NFL front offices. "Who’s the better athlete and who’s the better pass rusher? McCoy comes up more often than not as the yes guy there.

"When I try to get people down on that conversation, it’s a little more McCoy 1A and Suh 1B.”

Since Suh’s down-the-stretch destruction of every offense in his path last season, culminating in a fourth-place finish in the Heisman Trophy voting, he was considered the clear choice as the top pick in the NFL Draft.

Recently, Bradford has gained the momentum of that speculation, since the Rams desperately need a quarterback and a face for a free-falling franchise.

But don’t forget McCoy. Texas offensive coordinator Greg Davis called the jolly Sooner giant the best tackle the ’Horns had ever faced, and McCoy’s performance, while not as statistically dominant as Suh’s, was just as impressive to football insiders.

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