Do Pro Days matter? A conversation with Dan Hatman

Better Rivals: A San Francisco 49ers Podcast

Blue Wire

Football, Sports

4.8 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week, we're joined by Dan Hatman, the Director of Scouting at The Scouting Academy. A veteran of three NFL front offices, Dan joins to discuss the inner workings of the draft process and helps answer the question on everyone's mind: Do Pro Days really matter? All that, plus wild workout tests, a burger pivot, and plants growing before flowers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:57.1	Welcome to this week's edition of the Better Rivals podcast.
1:02.3	My name is Oscar Oparicio, and this week, the draft is now just two weeks away.
1:06.2	Pro days seem to be on everyone's mind, but do they really matter?
1:10.0	And with me this week, it's actually a special guest.
1:13.2	Dan Hatman, the director of the Scouting Academy,
1:16.4	who worked in the front office of three NFL franchises,
1:18.0	the Eagles, the Jets, and the Giants,
1:23.2	joins me to discuss all of the things that you could learn from a pro day and really whether or not they matter.
1:25.3	There's a lot of questions that people have had about the draft process, how teams compile
1:29.3	boards.
1:30.0	We got a lot of questions from the Patreon.
1:32.0	So thank you to everyone who submitted a question.
1:33.8	I got to several of those in the interview with Dan.
1:36.9	But, you know, I had a question that I had about really whether or not pro days really mattered,
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