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The Relationship Between The Nfl Scouting Combine And Game Performance Over A Five Year Period, Jordan Cook
The Relationship Between The Nfl Scouting Combine And Game Performance Over A Five Year Period, Jordan Cook
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The National Football League (NFL) Scouting Combine offers good face validity however, there has been doubt on the ability of the NFL Combine to predict future success of athletes in relation to in game performance (i.e., predictive validity). This study analyzed the NFL Combine data of 1537 college football players who participated in the Combine between 2013 and 2017 and their subsequent year’s performance in the NFL. The measures used from the Combine were the six different measures of athletic performance; 40-yard dash, vertical jump (VJ), broad jump, shuttle run (PRO), 3-cone drill, and bench press (BP). The measure of …