During the long pre-draft process of college all-star games, the NFL Scouting Combine, pro days, team visits, and private workouts, a player’s stock can rise or fall.
Skeptics will say: How can this be the case when nobody’s played a game that mattered in months?
Well, try telling that to Alabama linebacker Reuben Foster. For all his talent, he probably wins the award for bumpiest run-up to the 2017 NFL draft.
It started at an Indianapolis hospital, waiting in line during the battery of medical testing that is part of the combine experience. Foster grew frustrated waiting, got into an argument with a hospital employee, and as a result was sent home from the combine.