This is the late round podcast with your host, J.J. Zacharre

Riesa.

What's up everyone? It's J.J. Zacharee. In this episode 867 of the

late round fantasy football podcast. Thanks for tuning in. There's definitely a

large group of people out there who think the NFL combine doesn't matter.

That you can't actually take anything away from the event and that it does more harm than good to

your analysis.

I disagree with that wholeheartedly. I'm someone who's scouting through analytics as 99% of you know.

And I think when I say that a lot of people assume that that means that most of the numbers that I work with

come from the NFL combine.

But that couldn't be further from the truth.

As you heard over the last two weeks on the show,

age-adjusted college production is far, far more important

than anything that you'll get from the combine.

You can listen to those shows over the last couple of weeks to give you an idea of what I mean.

Most of the NFL combine is irrelevant to me.

Most of it. There are things that I'm still

looking for and things that I'm still inputting into my models. There are things that

are still important at the event. Not everything at the combine has to be important for the combine to matter.

Now within my wide receiver prospect model I don't have any inputs from the NFL combine,

not even height and weight inputs. I don't have any inputs from the NFL combine, not even height and weight inputs.

I don't think that those things don't matter though.

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