For decades, the NFL Scouting Combine has been seen by most football fans as an important moment in the offseason and a big step toward the NFL Draft. But apparently, not all NFL coaches see it that way.
According to NFL insider Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, there are some coaching staffs that are planning to skip the NFL combine because they feel like their time can be better spent doing other things to help prepare for next season – like making free-agent decisions.
“Here’s the reality of the NFL’s offseason off-field reality show. Some have decided that their time is better spent working in the team facility for the week. They can spend the day doing multiple things, from making decisions about which of their own players they’ll keep to which free agents they’ll pursue to which incoming players they may want to try to add,” Florio said on Pro Football Talk.
“With the launch of the offseason program not very far away, some teams opt to focus on planning for the officially unofficial start of the next campaign in lieu of devoting an entire week to focusing on the next wave of new players.”
Florio points out that so far, there aren’t enough coaching staffs skipping the combine for it to become a serious problem for the league, but it’s a situation worth watching in the future as the league could make changes to the event or even make attendance mandatory.
