Over the next few days, this year’s top 300 NFL prospects will be at the combine in Indianapolis, making their cases for why they should be given a shot at pro football. They’ll be prodded and tweaked in medical exams and functional movement screens, grilled in interviews and aptitude tests, then finally put through their paces in the Underwear Olympics’ signature seven drills: the 40-yard dash, bench press, vertical jump, broad jump, three-cone drill, and 20- and 60-yard shuttle runs.
Since the combine—formerly the National Invitational Camp—became a league-wide affair in 1985, not much has changed with its drills.