Since the NFL combine just wrapped up and the league's personnel people have plenty of data to sift through, I wondered which of all the tests used in Indy was the most meaningful.
Obviously, certain tests are more relevant for certain positions -- but this is in terms of the overall application, or barometer. Here is a full list of the drills and tests guys go through at the combine.
Making the case for the short shuttle (here's more info on that) is Steve White, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New York Jets defensive lineman and an avid sports junkie. You can read his blog at Passing on the Game.
To keep diving into this -- the argument comes down to cones versus shuttle drills, with no 40-yard dash in sight -- you gotta be an ESPN Insider.
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Bruce Feldman is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. He started at ESPN in 1994. He spent a good portion of two years in the South working on his book, "Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting."
His first book, "Cane Mutiny: How the Miami Hurricanes Overturned the Football Establishment," made it to No. 1 among sports titles in the fall of 2004.
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