Foster stays guarded over sending home

INDIANAPOLIS — If linebacker Reuben Foster is worried that he hurt his draft stock by getting kicked out of the NFL’s scouting combine, he wasn’t showing it on Saturday.

The former Alabama star posted a live video on Instagram, but he demurred when fans asked about him getting sent home allegedly for getting into a heated confrontation with a hospital worker in Indianapolis over his long wait time.

“Stop asking me what happened,” Foster said on the video, according to AL.com. “Nothing happened.”

Then, Foster, a potential top10 pick, deflected questions to his Crimson Tide teammates who were with him at the combine.

“Talk to Tim,” Foster said in reference to Tim Williams, a defensive end who was at the Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital at the same time. “Talk to Ryan [Anderson]. Talk to Dalvin [Tomlinson]. Them boys know. They were there.”

Williams said he was in a different group and couldn’t say exactly what happened.

Pass rusher Ryan Anderson could only say that there was a logjam of prospects at the hospital, so much so that he, himself, missed an interview with the Miami Dolphins on Friday night.

Defensive tackle Jonathan Allen, another former Alabama star, shed no light on the incident with Foster, either. “I just found out today,” he said.

In his video chat, Foster also addressed the recent surgery on his right rotator cuff that took him out of physical drills at the combine. He said he would be out of the sling in a week.

“Everything ain’t perfect,” Foster said. “I’m good. I just have to think.”