NFL Combine Confidential with Domonique Foxworth

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The NFL combine: an annual spectacle that is part job interview, part gym class, and part reality TV show. It is also a critical moment in deciding the future of a new class of NFL draft prospects. An exceptionally good or bad performance in the combine will make a prospect’s draft stock rise or fall, meaning millions in potential salary is on the table. But just how useful is the combine in actually predicting a player’s NFL career? And what is it like for the players to run the gauntlet of medical evaluations, physical tests, and character evaluations? ESPN’s Domonique Foxworth went through the process in 2005. He shares all the secrets from inside the scouting combine, and why it may not be as important as we think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:10.7	So Dominique, what was your AOL screen name again?
0:16.2	NFL bound 36.
0:18.9	It's a miracle, honestly, that we're friends.
0:21.6	Because my screen name was Yoda followed by six numbers.
0:24.6	And those numbers were like reference to X-Men comic books.
0:28.6	I loved X-Men growing up.
0:31.6	So, I mean, I just also had a goal and that was it.
0:34.6	No, you didn't just have a goal and that was it.
0:36.6	You're one of these maniacs who had a dream and then lived that dream.
0:42.2	And so I have this time machine that I need you to jump into with me.
0:46.4	And I'm setting the date to February 2005.
0:50.4	Be careful.
0:51.0	Don't go back too far because we might not be safe.
0:55.5	It was the NFL Combine. It's Indianapolis. You're coming off your senior season as a defensive back in University of Maryland.
1:03.7	How nervous were you before you head into this building where like all of this seems to be on the line, your whole career, your dream?
1:11.9	Watching me throw up might have made you think I was nervous. However, at what point did
1:18.8	the vomit that definitely was not a symptom of nervousness come in? I know that sounds absurd,
1:24.6	but it was not a symptom of nervousness. It was because I was 175 pounds and I needed
1:30.8	them to think I was as heavy as possible. So I drank enough water to get over 180. Then I went to
1:37.3	the bathroom and was all over the place along with my brethren. I wasn't the only one who was
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