Quote:This has been bugging me for quite some time now. Just what does the Pro Day accomplish? From what I can tell - since I have never attended a Pro Day, nor do I ever intend to - a players Pro Day consist of him being weighed and measured, performing a few drills, and maybe having a presser. But all of these things are already done at the Combine by an impartial, or at least a less interested party.
I would think that everyone in attendance takes most of the results of the scripted drills with more than just a grain of salt.


 

I can understand having one in the case of a player being injured and not being able to make the Combine or if he flat out wasn't invited, but besides that what's the point?

 

To the prospective draftee, the Pro Day is a last-ditched attempt to get stuff checked off his scouting report. In other words, to the potential draftee, the Pro Day workout is a fail-safe for what may or may not have happened at the Combine. A bad forty time can be erased at Pro Day. The lack of drive on passes at the Combine can be corrected and properly demonstrated at Pro Day. For potential draftees that are advised to not compete at the NFL Combine it's a terrible risk to take or it's just fine.

 

If they do not work out at the Combine coupled with a bad to poor Pro Day how can it NOT hurt the potential draftee? They guy's getting cold feet, why draft him?

 

For NFL teams, the college Pro Day should be a final chance for colleges to have a look at players that haven't had lots of exposure. It screams volumes about a top prospect's camaraderie and sportsmanship when they hog the spotlight due to a poor non-cooperative attitude at the NFL Scouting Combine, or it can show they have total class by getting it done when it's expected and allowing others a chance to win.

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