The main part of the 2026 NBA Draft Combine is over. The whole thing technically doesn’t end until Sunday, but the lat few days are reserved for individual workouts and agency pro days that usually consist of players going through pre-planned routines that they’ve practiced to look extra impressive for teams. Out focus is on the meat and potatoes of the combine–the measurements, the athletic testing, and the scrimmages. We already had our own share of winners and losers from the measurements alone. Let’s go back right to that content well and pick out some more winners and losers when factoring in the rest of the testing.

Winners

Cameron Carr

Carr has to be the biggest winner from the combine. He aced the athletic testing with a 38 inch standing vertical, 42.5 inch max vertical, and 10.46 lane agility time, all second best in the class. He measured in with over a seven feet wingspan while standing at 6’4″. It’s a picture perfect combine for a guy that projects as a 3&D wing. And then he went out and dropped a 30 piece on the first day of 5 on 5 scrimmages while hitting six 3-pointers. It’s hard to imagine a player doing more to help their draft stock over the course of a couple of days. Carr is firmly in the Hornets draft range as well, so he’s a player to keep an eye on as the draft approaches.

Morez Johnson

Johnson has been developing a bit of a following among draftniks based on his motor and defensive versatility. He only added heat to that with his combine. He measured in with a 7’3.5″ wingspan at 6’9″. He added in very good numbers in the athletic testing as well. The biggest question mark with Johnson’s game is the outside shot. He went a little ways towards quelling those concerns by hitting 17 of 25 threes in the star shooting drill. Shooting drills hardly translate to live game action, but simply showing the touch will have teams optimistic that they’ll be able to work that into game ready shooting touch.

Baba Miller

Miller is a second round prospect, and the Hornets don’t have a second round pick at the moment, but it’s always important to keep tabs on players throughout the draft. Miller posted a huge wingspan and standing reach and did well in the agility tests. But perhaps most importantly, he dominated the actual basketball playing. He scored 20 points in his first scrimmage and came up one rebound short of a double double in the second.

Matthew Able

Able was the 24th ranked prospect in the high school class of 2025 and committed to NC State. He came off the bench for his entire freshman season and didn’t do much to put himself on the NBA Draft radar. Still, he earned a spot at the combine and has made the most of it. He averaged 16 points per game in the two scrimmages and posted good size for an off guard. He might be one of those upside second round picks or undrafted free agents if he decides to keep his name in the hat for some reason. If nothing else, he’s put himself on the radar for next year.

Losers

Tyler Tanner

Tanner was looked at as a fringe first round pick, so he’s probably not in the Hornets range anyway, but now it’s looking more likely that he simply goes back to college. He came up short of six feet tall, which is far from ideal even with his positive wingspan. He also weighed in as the second lightest player at the combine at 166.8 pounds. He’s going to be an NBA player because of his skills more than his physical tools, but with that being the case, you’d like to see him do well in the scrimmages. Instead, he had a quiet first game and a brutal second game. He took a bunch of Ls. He’s said he’s pretty intent on going into the NBA, but it’s not been an ideal start to the postseason evaluation process.

Yaxel Lendeborg

This is going to show my bias because I’m pretty low on Lendeborg as it is, but I don’t think the combine did anything to help him. He’s big, which is good. But he had the second worst standing vertical leap at just 25.5 inches and the fourth worst max vertical leap at just 32 inches. His agility and shuttle run times were okay, but his sprint time was also poor. He’s going to be 24 years old before the start of his rookie season, has a history of off court question marks, and now has posted some underwhelming measurements of his explosiveness. I’m all the way out.

Joshua Jefferson

Jefferson’s play making numbers alone at the four spot are enough to warrant a second look at him in the first round. His combine showing might make you rethink that. He didn’t measure particularly large and performed poorly at all of the athletic tests. His shooting drills were underwhelming as well. Plus passing is cool. But if that’s all you bring to the table at nearly 23 years old, I worry about how the game translates to the NBA.