20 things we learned from the 2020 scouting combine

The scouting combine is a fascinating fountain of draft and NFL knowledge. Here are the 20 most important things we learned this year.

Rich Eisen’s 40-yard dash was the most important of the combine.

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At the end of every scouting combine since 2005, Eisen, the NFL Network host who chairs the network’s combine coverage, walks down to the field at Lucas Oil Stadium and runs a 40-yard dash to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This year, through donations, Eisen has raised over $800,000 in 2020, and every year, it’s a bigger deal. It’s a nice reminder that, as much as we’re all about football at this concentrated time, there are ways to reach out and give back.

Touchdown Wire editor Doug Farrar previously covered football for Yahoo! Sports, Sports Illustrated, Bleacher Report, the Washington Post, and Football Outsiders. His first book, “The Genius of Desperation,” a schematic history of professional football, was published by Triumph Books in 2018 and won the Professional Football Researchers Association’s Nelson Ross Award for “Outstanding recent achievement in pro football research and historiography.”

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