As far as I’m concerned, there’s no single event that more accurately summarizes the NFL than the Combine.
Sure, the Super Bowl gives you the glamour and excess that you’d expect from the world’s most decadent sports league, but the Combine gives you that and showcases the entire league’s propensity to make sweeping, consequential decisions based on, at best, unreliable evidence.
Careers will rise and fall this week based on fractional seconds in the 40-yard dash, a couple of bench press reps, or a quarter inch one way or another in height or hand size or vertical leap.