INDIANAPOLIS — There once was a time when scouts and coaches could watch most any player live or on his film, see how he played at the collegiate level and develop a gauge on how he would plug into their system.
That’s no longer the case. With the rise in spread offenses and other exotic schemes at the college level, scouting has become a projection game and an inexact science in many ways. Teams now often have to look at traits and make their best guesses at how they’ll do the things required of their position in the NFL.