For this year’s prospects — most of whom were born between 1999 and 2001 — the combine has been a big deal for pretty much their entire conscious lives.
In 2019, Simpson participated in Nike Opening, an elite preps camp that replicates all the combine drills, including the 40-yard dash, vertical jump and broad jump. He compared his results with the prospects he watched on TV and focused especially on the two linebackers who dominated the most recent combine. To this day, he can recite the 40 times for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Devin White and the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Devin Bush .
Like Simpson, many prospects in this year’s draft have grown up with the combine as a central part of their NFL dreams. The childhood vision usually crescendos at the draft itself — flashing cameras, daps with the commissioner — but over the past 15 years or so, NFL draft mania has grown into an obsession rivaling the games themselves, and the spotlight on the combine has only grown brighter.
In 2018, Gray was a high school junior in Memphis when Penn State running back Saquon Barkley ran a 4.4-second 40, posted a vertical jump of 41 inches and bench-pressed 225 pounds 29 times. One of the many downstream effects of the combine’s gamification is the rise of combine training. Several prospects said that, long before they could declare for the draft, they knew which facilities they wanted to attend to get faster and prepare for the combine. For the months between the end of the college season and the combine,for training, housing, transportation and per diems because a few tenths of a second in a drill could be the difference in a draft slot worth millions.
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