To some the combine is just the NFL trying to keep your attention for the downtime to compensate for the off season. To some its just pointless because regardless of if you watch it most people won't recognize the players after the first 40 picks or so. If you watch college football then you probably disagree as I do though.
The combine is your first chance at really seeing the college players perform at the pro level. Yeah I known there's no pads of contact but it is what it is. Some of these players have only played there position throughout there college careers and this is the first good look at them comparing them to pro players. Perfect examples for me are the Redskins last season. They released Clinton Portis in the off season and drafted both Roy Helu and Evan Royster. When the season began Tim Hightower got the bulk of the carries. But after and injury we began to see what we saw from Helu and later in the season from Royster. The year before both had great seasons. But for some reason weren't ranked high scouting wise. This is something you get from the combine and watching college football.
This is the main reason I love the NFL it really is a no downtime league. After the Super Bowl there's tall about free agency. And to hold us real fans over till then there's the combine. Can't wait, guarantee there'll be some players we've never thought we'd hear about making noise. And that's what the combine is really for. To showcase the talents we didn't get to see nationally all season.
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