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2015 NFL Draft: NFL considering changes to Combine workouts

By Rob Rang | The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com

February 27, 2015 5:28 pm ET

Changes may be coming to the NFL Scouting Combine and this time it involves the drills being run by the athletes.

As the so-called "Underwear Olympics" have evolved into one of the most television-friendly events in the league's calender, the NFL has increasingly marketed the Combine, opening the doors to quarterback workouts for select members of the media in 2007, the general public a few years ago and even creating Regional Combines for players not invited to the national audition held in Indianapolis each year and most recently a workout for players with NFL experience.

This time, the NFL is looking at adjusting some of the workouts to cater to the specific position groups, specifically considering changes to the 40-yard dash -- the event's most iconic test.

"That's a project we'll be working on this offseason," Matt Birk, the league's director of player development, said Friday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston. "Once we look at the data that was gathered in-game this year, it may be important to know how fast a wide receiver or defensive back can go 60 yards. Maybe for an offensive lineman it's only 20 yards.

2015 NFL Draft: NFL considering changes to Combine workouts - CBSSports.com

finally some changes i can agree with

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