What Matters for the Combine?
The latest newsletter from KCSN Sports Data Scientist, Joseph Hefner
The NFL offseason comes fast when you’re the Super Bowl champions. The rest of our division has been in the offseason since their final games on Sunday, January 8th, while we’ve been playing games all the way through Sunday, February 11th. That’s thirty-four more days they’ve been in the offseason compared to us!!
The NFL combine started on Monday. Three hundred and twenty-one college players were invited to participate. Medicals, measurements, and athletic testing are the three major events that occur at the combine.
The public gets very little information about the medicals, but this information is available to all of the teams, and informs their draft decisions. Medicals can cause players to rise and fall on the draft board. For example, our own Trey Smith had a blood clot issue (pulmonary emboli) show up, and that dropped him all the way from the late second round to the sixth round, where Veach snagged him for us.
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