The NFL Combine begins this week to open the new NFL year, and that means a lot of evaluation about interesting-but-not-necessarily-important metrics for hundreds of NFL hopefuls.
Don’t get me wrong. The metrics have value - particularly when ranking two players at a position who are seemingly “tied” when it comes to their performance stats.
And those metrics can be a little like the SAT - a semi-neutral playing field to avoid overlooking players just because they went to a non-FBS school or because they don’t play a lot of tough competition.
Plus, who doesn’t like to see which player will break the speed barrier or show off a vertical higher than my head?