NFL Combine
‘The NFL combine – also known as the Underwear Olympics – starts Wednesday in Indianapolis.
OK, we love the draft – you know this. But still the Combine hardly makes for gripping television, but not unlike the Pro Bowl, if you don’t like it don’t watch it. (That there’s an audience at all for a collection of dudes in spandex doing the broad jump or a shuttle run may be the biggest testament to the unstoppable force that is the NFL’s popularity.)
While the river of stories about how the combine is worthless – “GAME TAPE RULES” – will certainly surface, the truth is that there a lot of stars in today’s game that used the combine as a springboard.
Guys such as Odell Beckham Jr., who was good but at times inconsistent at LSU, and Khalil Mack, who was a star but played at Buffalo, which hardly offers a lot of NFL-caliber competition, were amazing at the Combine.