NFL teams use scouting combine for more than numbers game

The athleticism sector of the NFL Combine is undoubtedly significant for scouts and how they evaluate specific players.

The Wonderlic test, team interviews, bench press, height and weight measurements, medical tests and media requirements all take place before the players even set foot on the Lucas Oil Stadium turf for the on field testing we see on television.

Football talk will revolve around the NFL Scouting Combine this week, and that is something that brings back great memories for outside linebackers coach Joey Porter.

JOHN SCHMEELK: Fact – The combine puts players in a neutral forum where they are performing next to their peers. The reason the Jaguars have been up to the task of defending the run for stretches but have been completely anemic against the pass is because they have let lesser athletes and more run oriented players play big snaps. with the only true impact defender being Sen’Derrik Marks who is now also a question mark. That was always a little puzzling to me.

Jack is so proud, I believe, and John honors him every day. His last contract was banged out in just one week. Today, these players are training from the moment they finish their college season until now. The UCLA linebacker could be full go after recovering from a torn meniscus three week’s into his 2015 season. “And if it is, great, we’ll continue to do it, because historical comparison is really important to the evaluation process”.

In a nutshell, Parcells is 100 percent correct.

“It was an awesome display”, said Jim Hanifan, who was the Rams’ offensive line coach then. Football fans see the NFL’s annual scouting combine as me… We were all competing for the same position. Based on this year’s list of 332 invitees, that means 56 more players are invited than got drafted a year ago. There is a YouTube video of Zimmer doing 46 reps of 225 pounds. A sub 4.5 second 40-yard dash time could propel Treadwell into the top five. You have some information, but not everything.

Too bad they can’t start this year, this week, this combine.

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“It does serve an information service for everyone from coaches to administrative executives to scouts”, Muller said.

Josh Norris, Rotoworld and NBC Sports: “Some teams will put prospects through a psychology test and some will get them up on a whiteboard and ask them certain things”. The Combine will have its share of players that hurt and help their draft stock, and mock drafts will be adjusted accordingly. There is a balance here to look at. As you can see, explosion is a big factor here and one that the National Football League is keen to see.

Why is the combine important for Defensive Lineman?

Vertical jump: Chris Conley, WR, Georgia (2015) – Conley tied the record previously held by Donald Washington with a 45-inch leap at last year’s combine. That factor is huge. “I knew St. Vincent from being in town and from guys who had worked with them”. It’s very hard to double team one individual when you have a whole group of game-changing defenders. That information is on SportsCenter within minutes.

“I thought he helped himself”, Stokes said. He became the first player to ever win PAC-12 Freshman of the Year on both offense and defense. Awarding a young player with millions of dollars – because his college team has booted him in many cases – is flat out counter productive for the player and the NFL.

So Elway knows better than most just what it takes.

But with so many other top receivers available for selection Miller may have to wait a while for someone to take a chance on him.

North Dakota State’s Carson Wentz has dominated the headlines as the hottest quarterback on the rise since the end of the college football season.