The NFL Scouting Combine moves to primetime this year, which frankly is still a bit hard for me to believe, but, you know, good for the league, right? With the change in time slots also comes some changes to the way things are run, some you’ll see and some you won’t.
For example, starting this year, teams will now be permitted to interview prospects for 18 minutes, up from 15, but now they will only be allowed to meet formally with 45 players rather than 60. This makes Pro Day visits and things like that more important in terms of quantitative information-gathering that raises to the level greater than informal meetings.