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By Donni Coley Volume II, No. 8
Woo…I finished writing this week’s Weekly Blitz just under the wire, if there was a way to measure my performance as a writer, this week my stock would have plummeted drastically.
Speaking of stocks possibly rising or falling, and I’m not talking about the New York Stock Exchange, but the NFL Stock Exchange at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis at this year’s scouting combine. College football players that declare themselves ready for the NFL, stocks are evaluated. About 300 athletes, for six days put their athleticism through a series of drills and tests for owners, scouts and general managers looking for their team’s future investment. The player’s performance will determine his stock value at the NFL draft to be held April 22-23 at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
It was challenging to write this blog, because I didn’t know what to write since I wasn’t able to attend this year’s combine, to see the action, feel the energy and witness the emotion first hand. I had to settle on watching the NFL Network and logging onto Fox Sports.com and NFL.com to check out the daily highlights.
There were questions on two of the NFL’s stock picks. Quarterback Tim Tebow; why won’t he throw at the combine? How will a Rhodes Scholar safety, Myron Rolle, do after taking a year off from playing football to study in Oxford?
At the combine, self imposed pressure is felt by these talented athletes to perform, because the earlier a player gets selected in the draft means a bigger slice of cheddar. It’s a matter of millions for first round draft picks and hundreds of thousands for fifth, sixth and seventh round draft picks.
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