During the athletic testing phase of the Chicago predraft combine on Friday, a pair of forwards — Arizona’s Aaron Gordon and Indiana’s Noah Vonleh—wowed scouts and front-office executives here, firming up their status as Top-10 picks.

That, combined with the measurements and testing results of Julius Randle — who was not spectacular, but did nothing to hurt his stock over these two days — leaves the possibility that we could see five big guys in the Top 10 of the draft for the first time since 2007. Have a look at the five:


Jabari Parker 


Parker did not improve his stock in Chicago, mostly because Parker opted not to come to Chicago. Eventually, Parker could develop into more of a small forward at the NBA level, but he is more of a power forward as he enters the league, and that is how most personnel executives are looking at him.

There has been much commentary on his shoddy defense, but for most NBA types, that’s par for the course when it comes to teenagers playing out of position. Parker still has a shot at being the first pick.


Noah Vonleh


Vonleh was probably the biggest winner of the draft camp. His measurements were terrific, at 6-8 without shoes and with a huge 7-4.25 wingspan, plus enormous hands — best-in-class 11.75 inches in width (that matters because it affects his ability to catch in the post).

He also had a 37-inch vertical leap, which is outstanding for his size. Depending on how the lottery falls, Vonleh could be a Top-5 guy.


Julius Randle


Randle came into the combine facing concerns that he was short-armed and not athletic enough. His measurements were not amazing or anything — he was 6-9 in shoes and had a wingspan of 7-0 — but they were not especially damaging, either. His max vertical leap of 35.5 inches was solid, too.

Randle has huge talent, of course, but has slipped behind Vonleh among power forwards. He is surely a Top 10 pick, though.


Aaron Gordon


And Randle might slip behind Aaron Gordon, too. If Vonleh was the biggest winner of the predraft combine, Gordon was not far behind, and the only difference is that Gordon did not measure out particularly well, standing 6-8.75 in shoes with a wingspan of 6-11.75. But once it came to athletic testing, Gordon was off the charts.

He had a max vertical of 39.5 inches, tops among big guys, and was first among all players in the shuttle run, which tests agility (after Gordon, the next four fastest finishers were point guards). The problem with Gordon remains his shooting, of course, but for his size, he is a freak athletically.


 


Doug McDermott


When McDermott went up against the tape measures on Thursday, things did not go well. He was 6-6.25 without shoes and 6-7.75 with shoes, also featuring a decidedly short wingspan of 6-9.25, numbers that one front-office exec said were, “potentially disastrous.” But things looked better on Friday, when McDermott showed himself to be more athletic than expected, logging a 36.5-inch max vertical leap. 

Everyone knows what McDermott can do as a shooter — he shot 55.0 percent in his four-year career at Creighton — and that should keep him in the lottery, if not in the Top 10. But questions about his size and position in the NBA will persist.