St. Louis Rams’ general manager, Les Snead: Football players will be evaluated on the football field
The National Football League (NFL) Scouting Combine will showcase over 300 prospective football players determined to clear tough physical and medical tests to brighten their chances in the upcoming NFL drafts, but St. Louis Rams’ general manager, Les Snead,
is not up for judging the players during the combine.
The combine, in which college athletes are called to display their talent, is attended by the coaches and general managers of all the franchises.
These personnel monitors the players performing bench press, broad and vertical jumps, 40-yard dash, three-cone drill, short and long shuttles, drug screening, interviews, injury evaluation and others.
During the combine, the players do prove how strong they are, but Snead thinks that the true potential can only be measured on the football field where they throw the ball, run and exhibit their playing skills.
The newly appointed Rams’ general manager also believes that the physical portion of the combine is the ‘least important’ part.
Snead said:
“We are looking for football players and they are not playing football at the combine.”
He added:
“What that does do is maybe confirm some things. It may lead to some questions that you’ll have to go back and say ‘OK, am I seeing it right on the football field or not?’ But trust me on this; the evaluations of the football player will come on the football
field and not in drills at the combine.”
Meanwhile, both Snead and Rams’ head coach, Jeff Fisher, have said that one of the most beneficial aspects of the combine is the acquisition of all the medical details of a player.
Rams have second overall pick in the upcoming drafts and the management has not decided what actually it is going to do with the pick.
Rams could utilise it to hire the top prospects in the drafts, but by the looks of the things, Rams will not go after a quarterback.
If this happens, they will have an opportunity to trade their pick with any other franchise seeking quarterback.
A few days earlier, Snead and Fisher had said that they were still pondering over different possibilities for the drafts and that a decision would be reached after an objective analysis of all the related aspects.
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