INDIANAPOLIS -- Save for a global pandemic, the NFL scouting combine has been held in Indianapolis each year since 1987.
NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith, however, believes the combine has outlived its usefulness. During Super Bowl week, he took aim at the annual centralized event, which involves more than 300 draft prospects going through workouts, medical testing and interviews with coaches and front-office executives.
"It's for the teams to be able to engage in intrusive employment actions that don't exist anywhere else," Smith said when asked about NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent reportedly comparing the combine to a "slave auction.