The combine has taken over the NFL landscape and with the results will come a dynamic shift in mock drafts. Fans should understand what the measurements mean to teams. Athletic markers are projections to how well a player’s abilities they showed while on campus will translate to the next level. Athleticism isn’t the end all be all, but traits are traits. The majority of NFL rosters are comprised of people who were in the upper echelon of testing among collegiate athletes.
In order to compete with them, the majority of players need to also be in the top quartile of athletes and the ones who become superstars are often in the top-10 percent. There are of course a bunch of outliers, but they are still outliers. So with that said, before the freakish nature of some of these prospects start to shift opinions of those who had no access to this level of info prior, let’s see who was being shipped to Dallas from the various outlets.