In less than two weeks, the NFL universe will descend on Indianapolis to kick the 2019 NFL Draft process into high gear.
The combine. The underwear olympics. Where prospects are made based on exercises that don’t translate to football and where deals are made simply by putting every NFL team’s coaching staff and front office together in close company.
It’s a beautiful thing.
The 2019 NFL Scouting Combine officially get underway on Tuesday, February 26, but attention won’t really start ramping up until the end of the week.
As is always the case, the real value of the combine for prospect evaluation lies in the medical checks and the interviews teams get with players. Much of what we see on television just isn’t that important. The process is, though. Showing teams that you can prepare for something weeks in advance and deal with both the public and private sides of it while maximizing your physical abilities is the key. Failure to do so tells teams that there’s a struggle there. And for college players who are now being asked to excel outside of their team structure, there’s an aspect of individualism here that’s being tested.
In all, it’s the combine. It matters.
Here’s the schedule:
Group 1 (PK, ST, OL), Group 2 (OL), Group 3 (RB)
Group 4 (QB, WO), Group 5 (QB, WO), Group 6 (TE)
Group 7 (DL), Group 8 (DL), Group 9 (LB)
Group 10 (DB), Group 11 (DB)
And here are the prospects at the combine:
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