Athletes focus on the flashy 40-yard dashes. The mind-blowing vertical jumps. The monstrous bench presses and the spryness required for the three-cone drills.
This is the stuff they've trained for — on the football field. The feats they are sure will prove their worth to be NFL players.
But inside a hospital room, far from the green turf or sweaty lure of a weight room, sits an idle machine.
It's an unassuming contraption that looks like a retro computer with wires sprouting out. The electrocardiogram, whose job it is to check the spikes and dips of the electrical activity of a heart.