Ever been to a job fair and felt overwhelmed by the amount of faces, stations, and brochure material on display? Imagine all that, plus a series of medical tests and psychological questionnaires. Being brought into a private room for questioning, then asked to complete various physical challenges inside a room with onlookers staring in through windows.
Oh, and you have to do a good portion of it wearing spandex.
This, essentially, is the NFL Scouting Combine, a week-long event originally intended to help teams share information-gathering costs by getting draft prospects together for testing and questioning in a single location.