INDIANAPOLIS There’s “Always Compete.”
And then there’s this:
Each team gets 60 formal interviews at the NFL combine with college prospects. These are 15-minute, sit-down talks. The questions--tests, really-- come from a team’s coach, general manager, position coach and anyone else who wants in on grilling a potential future player to determine if he will become one of their next draft picks in April. It’s the most important job interview of these players’ lives so far. Many teams see them as more important than the 40-yard dashes and vertical jumps that get on national television.
I mean, even punters get grilled.