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Senior Bowl offers formal psychological evaluation for first time in 2017

The Senior Bowl is important to NFL teams for far more reasons than the actual all-star game on Saturday.

In addition to scouts intently watching practices during the week, teams interview nearly every Senior Bowl player in some capacity so they can spend more time talking to underclassmen at the combine.

Teams use the all-star game in Mobile, Ala., as a chance to learn as much as they can about the prospects, and this year, the Senior Bowl offered a new way to provides NFL decision-makers with information.

Each player had to participate in NFL psychological testing this year.