For draft prospects attending the NFL Combine they will be poked and prodded as well as timed, weighed and measured. The question becomes, what does all this data mean? Does it equate to success on the field? Most people say no but there has to be some merit in it otherwise why do it.
Let’s look at 2019’s top seven combine performers, based on Next Gen Stats, and see how they performed once the pads went on. Next-Gen scored the players on a scale of 1-100 based on their results in the various drills and statistics.