Traditionally, the NFL Scouting Combine is a place where players have been able to impact their draft stock with impressive interviews and standout drills in front of every NFL team. That will still be the case in 2021, but it won’t be because hundreds of people gathered in Indianapolis.
Per Albert Breer at Sports Illustrated, Indy won’t be the central location and the event will likely be all but unrecognizable. A rough sketch of what’s being discussed, per Breer:
- “Regionalized medical checks” where a small number of team medical staff can go and get the information they need to ensure that they know whether a player has, say, an underlying medical condition or a slow-healing injury that might impact their draft stock.