The NFL Draft Before the Draft: Inside the Start of Scouting Season

October 28, 2015   ·   Brent Sobleski   ·   Jump to comments

These are the dog days for NFL scouts as they traverse the country during arguably the most important portion of the predraft evaluation process. 
Life on the road for an area scout can be loosely described as a grind during the regular season, but those who are on the road throughout the regular season seem to prefer a different descriptive term: time intensive. 
Others appreciate the value of the work being done by these traveling talent evaluators. 
"It's a physical and mental grind," former NFL general manager and owner of FootballEducator.com Ted Sundquist said. "It's not a physical grind in that you're running wind sprints or anything like that but just getting up early, getting to schools, not eating right and sitting on your rear end all day then trying to stand the entire time at practice. They then have to drive to the next school the next day and do it all over again. It wears on them a little bit."
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