The 2023 NFL Combine is officially wrapped. Outside of actual draft night, the Combine weekend is probably the closest thing to the Super Bowl for the analysts and data nerds. Granted, the football analytics space has broadened so much that the data points coming out of the events take on less significance in isolation but they still play a massive point in the now super sophisticated algorithms of player evaluations.
Personally, I’m not in the camp of analysts who place an outsized amount of weight on players’ Combine results. Especially once you fold in social media, nowadays by the time these players have gotten to Indianapolis we’ve seen so much footage of them in action that it’s hard to justify weighing Combine results as much as they did in the past.