What Really Matters at the NFL Combine?

February 23, 2016   ·   Ty Schalter   ·   Jump to comments

NFL coaches, scouts, executives, owners, hopefuls and media across the country are flying into Indianapolis for one of the league's most overblown spectacles: the national scouting combine.
While the event continues to be a surprisingly popular draw for NFL fans desperate to find out more about the new crop of rookies, much of the real work of scouting is done well before hundreds of hopefuls don singlets and compete in what's jokingly called the "Underwear Olympics."
In fact, while exercise, nutrition and prep have taken leaps and bounds in the decades of combines run by National Football Scouting Inc., the workouts are largely unchanged. When players and agents are spending weeks and many thousands of dollars cribbing for a test they already know the answers to, how much do the results even matter?
NFL Network will do its usual wall-to-wall broadcasting, and Bleacher Report will be all over the live coverage. But of all the numbers that will hit the scoreboard, of all ...

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