Offensive tackles Eugene Monroe (above, right) and Michael Oher are both 300-plus-pound behemoths who could go in the top 10 to 12 picks in April's draft. Over the weekend, at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, Monroe bench-pressed 225 pounds 23 times; Oher threw up that weight 21 times. You couldn't do that, but prospective first round linemen are certainly expected to: More than a dozen O-linemen at the combine did at least 30 reps of 225, in fact, as did at least 10 defensive linemen, three linebackers, a fullback and a safety. Fewer than 25 reps, at their size and ambition, is not pretty.

But it wasn't only their peers in the trenches that outmuscled the highest-rated bookends -- with both Monroe and Oher tipping the scales at 309 pounds, here's a partial list of players giving up at least 100 pounds to the celebrated big men (that is, who weight less than 210) who nevertheless managed to out-bench one or both of them, according to the NFL:

Judging by position, rather than weight, the top-rated tackles were out-benched by a doze running backs, three wide receivers, nine tight ends, eight cornerbacks, four safeties and, yes, one kicker, ex-USC Trojan David Buehler, who weighed in at 225 pounds and managed 25 reps.

In the wake of that performance, some projections have rocketed Baylor tackle Jason Smith ahead of Oher and Monroe, in some cases all the way to the top of the board, and even speculate on Smith becoming the most obscure No. 1 pick in draft history. But Oher and Monroe aren't going to fall far; unless disaster befalls one or the other between now and April, both will still be off the board by the first half of the first round, if not the top-10, and probably should if that's what the scouts' eyes tell them.

And when they do go up there, you can either scoff that someone fell for a pair of no-account weaklings while letting the combine's top lifter go undrafted, or you can ask the other obvious question: If the results are that detached from reality -- if the key is "functional strength" rather than brute movability, and there's that much of a difference -- then what is the point of all this?