Keidel: NFL Combine Doesn’t Tell Us Much

By Jason Keidel
The quintessential meat market, the NFL Combine — sardonically called the Underwear Olympics — is in full swing.
Poked. Prodded. Fondled. Tape-measured. The NFL intelligentsia descends upon Indianapolis every March to measure future pro football players, using the same metrics and often getting the same results.
It’s become redundant. We know they want 30 reps of bench press, 40-inch vertical leap, 4.40 seconds in the 40-yard dash… such and such a broad j