Right, the injury story is completely sourced to one message board poster on TexansTalk. I'm not saying it's not true because I have no idea, but I hope to God the Texans don't make their decision based on message board posters lol. I assume these guys have to get MRIs done as part of their combine?
All these players will undergo multiple extensive physicals prior the draft and teams will be well aware if there are any problems. The discussion around Young being injured is pure speculation and conjecture.
Disagree. 90% of the evaluation comes from game film and pro day. Coaches and GMs like pro day more than the combine. At the combine they have very little time with each player while at pro day they have unlimited time with each one.
It is about production. I'd rather have a guy that gets open consistently rather than a guy that depends on speed where an over the top safety takes him away.
Not true. I've been told by numerous sources, that the combine accounts for 80% of the evaluation, then 5% from tape, and 15% from my PCP who's got a Podcast about football injuries...
Conversely, “workout warriors” who do exceptionally well at the combine get an extra look. In the end, however, as Bill Cowher says, a significant portion of a player’s grade is “what he does on tape, not in the ‘Underwear Olympics.’ ” Sports fans are used to dealing with minutia and incredibly fine margins; a single second or blade of grass, for example, could be the difference between victory and defeat. Given that reality, it’s easy to see the appeal of the NFL Scouting Combine. If you’re an armchair general manager, every prospect’s relevant data is at your fingertips. Surely it’s easy to draw a line from Combine results to NFL success, right? In reality, things aren’t as cut and dry. In fact, the NFL Scouting Combine might matter significantly less than you’d think. While it’s easy to get bogged down in numbers from the NFL Scouting Combine, don’t get too carried away. Results in isolated tests might not matter as much as you might think. While some tests obviously do matter—you don’t want a running back who can’t sprint, for example—”most of the Combine results lack any prediction power for neither draft order nor NFL performance.” Although that sounds jarring at first, it does make sense. Everyone at the NFL Scouting Combine is an elite athlete; professional success, however, boils down to more than physical tools, hand size, or any other single metric. According to the NFL Scouting Combine, Tom Brady should have been a complete failure; guys like Vernon Gholston and Tim Tebow looked like can’t-miss physical specimens. At the end of the day, numbers from the NFL Combine are like any other statistic; while they can be useful, taking them in isolation is a recipe for disaster.
I was making a cheeky joke. I haven't seen anywhere that teams are concerned about his shoulder though
Nothing screams "priority" like extending and expecting a guy to help you that just came off a 36.6 graded season.
If you're a scout you better be looking at on field production and the combine stuff. Lots of guys blew up at the combine and ended up being great pros.Its not all busts. Jamie Collins Chris Johnson Tarron armstead Dontari Poe
