Officiating may not be a year-round job in the NFL’s eyes, but for the teams and their scouts, it is. And many people may not realize this, but while their focus is on evaluating the college prospects for the draft, attending live games to see them first-hand, they actually do the same thing for professionals as well.
This is something that Pittsburgh Steelers General Manager Kevin Colbert explained just a short time ago at the team’s Family Fest practice. The same regional scouts who go on the road and attend games to get a first-hand look at the college prospects will be spending the next few weeks doing the same at the NFL level.