Should the Senior Bowl or the Combine Workouts Matter?

Here's a snippet from this week's ESPN Insider magazine.

Golic: "[Talking about the Combine] My dad used to say, 'The day you can bring a bench press out on the 50-yard line is when you start worrying about it.'"
Greeny:They should cancel the combine and just watch game tape. To ignore the actual playing of football in the draft evaluation process is like choosing a restaurant based on the font on their menu.

i don't know who in their right mind would ignore the "actual playing of football" and replace it solely with a combine workout instead...


the one thing it does do is get everyone talking and trotting out highlight and lowlight reels on prospects, a well as starting the process of swapping opinions, raising red flags, and generating evalutions.

The Senior Bowl and Combine should matter, but ultimately I think scouts take a little too much stock in these things and get too hyped or too down on certain players as a result.

Well the combines definately showed that Maurice Clarett didn't belong in the NFL.

Too bad the Broncos didn't realize that. :D

At least others agree.

ESPN.com - COLUMNIST/FORDE - Forde: Don't get lost in combine numbers (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2776319)

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_blogs/nfl/huddle_up/2006/2007/02/combine-craziness.html