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Tuesday open thread: Who improved their draft stock the most at the NFL Combine?

For the most part, the NFL Combine is for checking boxes. In other words, it’s about confirming what we already know about a draft prospect from their tape. After all, if someone’s physical attributes don’t transfer to the playing field, they aren’t very relevant to the conversation of what makes this person a good football player.

In these cases, it doesn’t make a lot of sense for a player to drastically move up and down your draft board after the NFL Combine. They either confirm what you already know about them, or alter your expectations a bit and make you go back to the tape to see if you missed something.