1. For coaches, this is the very beginning of the draft road.
Head coach Jay Gruden won’t have a great sense of the college prospects competing in Mobile, Ala., until the end of the week, and even then he’ll be watching limited tape. But his presence each year allows him the chance to see players up close and personal.
“This is my first look at them, so I’m excited to see these guys run around at practice, see how they handle themselves on the practice field,” Gruden said on Tuesday. “We get all the practice tape anyway, we go back and dissect all the practice tape and all the games that they’ve played in so this is just the very beginning of our evaluation process.