The NFL combine is a pretty grueling process for players as they must go through rounds of interviews with teams and media, participate in all sorts of medical tests and measurements, and then perform to the best of their ability in the highly-scrutinized drills. But it looks like the NFL is considering a change that could make the process a little easier on the players.
For the past few decades, players have been measured by using invasive, inefficient, and less accurate manual measurements. But soon, that will all be done by an automatic body scan.
“According to a league source, body scans will be used for the first time at next week’s combine in hopes of eventually replacing the manual body measurements that have been done for decades in scouting,” Jonathan Jones wrote for CBS Sports on Saturday. “The consideration is that the scans will replace the ‘hands-on’ process of measuring players height, hand size and wingspan with the single-scan approach. These scans are going to be beta tested next week for accuracy, with the belief that they’ll be fully integrated in 2024 and beyond.”
The hope is that this will make the whole process a little bit easier for players and likely also deliver more accurate results.
