The combine might not be in Indianapolis much longer.
As we pointed out earlier, there’s no guarantee that the combine will be in Indianapolis much longer. The league will likely take this show on the road soon, as it has for the draft, to reward franchises for building new stadiums and to make the thing even more of a spectacle than it already is. Los Angeles seems like a staple location. As a veteran of 14 combines from the media perspective, I can only say that it’s a mistake. Indy is an eminently walkable city, Lucas Oil Stadium is a great facility, trusted medical centers are nearby, and one of the reasons the combine was moved here from warm-weather locations back in the day (Tampa, New Orleans, and Arizona in the 1980s) was to ensure that coaches and general managers wouldn’t go off and play golf. Not that any of the NFL’s modern coaches and GMs would do this, but having the combine in Indianapolis is a true case of, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”