We are a week into February which means the NFL Scouting Combine is coming up soon. This year there were 337 NFL prospects who were invited to the annual event which will be held in Indianapolis from February 24 thru March 1.
They list the players in sortable order on the NFL.com site right here.
The combine page has tabs to sort invites by name, position, and college. And on each f those pages, you can sort by name, position, college, or conference.
At the Combine, prospects are first given physicals, weighed, measured, and interviewed. Then they hit the field for events. Standard athletic events at the combine include the 40-yard-dash, bench press, vertical jump, broad jump, 3-cone drill, 20-yard shuttle, and 60-yard shuttle. In addition each position group will have events specifically for them.
Not being invited to the combine doesn’t necessarily mean a prospect will not get draft. Every year there is the equivalent of an entire round worth of prospects who get drafted that weren’t invited to the combine. Those prospects still have their school’s pro day in order to impress NFL scouts.
By the same token, there will be over a third of the players who will be on the field for he combine who will not be drafted. After all, there are 256 players taken in the draft and there will be as many as 337 on the field in Indianapolis.
Many players are invited to the combine, but either choose not to participate, or only participate in one or two drills. This is either due to injury or simply preferring to show the rest of their skills and athleticism in a more familiar and prospect friendly environment at their college pro day. For instance, a QB may want to throw only at their pro day when they have wide receivers with whom they have developed some timing and chemistry with.
