When is scouting combine

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Ravens vs. Watch Now:. Beckham joining Rams for rest of season Bryan DeArdo 3 min read. Midseason awards: Who is MVP favorite? When he is done with that, he goes through a series of drills that are position specific. For most positions there are about six to eight different drills they perform.

These drills are run by different position coaches from NFL clubs. The good thing about the combine is that you can compare athletes at the same position doing the same drills in the same place on the same surface at the same time. That can be valuable because there is no change in the testing conditions. What can be bad, is that evaluators may not be getting a true indicator of the athletes REAL athleticism.

Prospects have been doing basically the same drills since the combine's inception in Football is a reaction game, yet these drills have become "learned" drills. The agent community spends literally millions of dollars in the two months leading up to the combine preparing their clients for the event. The players spend hours every day practicing their footwork for the agility drills and making sure their form is perfect. They practice their start in the 40 and their running form. They work on explosiveness to increase their vertical jump and long jump.

There is nothing that isn't practiced over and over again. It becomes almost second nature. Players are expected to perform well because they have spent so much time rehearsing. The great workouts aren't a surprise—the poor workout is! This tells the decision makers that football may not be that important to that prospect. During the evaluation process coaches and scouts have to weigh what they see at the combine versus what they see on tape. There have been countless times when a prospect has had a great workout that doesn't match up to the athlete we saw on tape.

Which one is the true indicator of his athletic talent? In most cases it ends up being the player you studied on tape. I have seen receivers with play speed of 4.

When they get to a camp they still look like the 4. The can't get separation! Once a player is drafted and he begins working with his clubs strength coaches he no longer is working to perfect a certain drill. He is working on the things that will help him become a better football player. The training is entirely different.