The NFL has a preseason, regular season, and postseason, but there really is no offseason. The most popular sport in America doesn’t sleep.
As soon as the Super Bowl is over, a billion mock drafts come out and everybody sets their sites on the combine. The combine, as you know, is just a massive job interview for incoming rookies. Team representatives talk to prospects they’re interested in, players run the 40-yard dash along with a myriad of other physical tests and the incoming rookies are made available to the press.
It’s kind of an unofficial start to the upcoming league year, even though the league year doesn’t actually start until later in the spring.