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Drake Maye, NFL stars recall vivid combine memories

Quinnen Williams thought he was on a train. But it was just a dream, and a troubling one at that.

It was the night before the 2019 NFL combine in Indianapolis, and Williams, a 6-foot-3, 303-pound defensive lineman out of Alabama, was trying to get some sleep.

But there was one problem.

"The train station hotel," Williams said, referring to the downtown Indianapolis hotel where the players stay. The hotel is connected to the Indianapolis Convention Center, which hosts the combine, and it's also adjacent to Union Station. "Throughout the night, trains would come through and they'd wake you up in the middle of the night.