This week would normally be when the NFL Combine takes place. A meeting ground for over a thousand media members, 300-plus players, and hundreds of NFL team employees normally generates a ton of information, between media interviews and athletic testing, but with COVID the event has been called off for 2021.
In fact, this year will be almost a perfect reversal of last year, when the Combine took place but Pro Days were almost entirely canceled. But one other aspect of the Combine that lies quietly underneath the primary purpose of the event is that it is a chance for players’ agents to get face time with general managers and other team decision-makers.