The football season never ends. There was a lull of a few days after the Super Bowl, but the action is back.
The NFL Combine dates back to 1982. It was developed as a way for teams to evaluate players. Before then, each player had to go individually to each team for evaluation. Each team did their own medical testing, athletic evaluation and everything.
Scott and Jason remember the combine as really terrible and awkward. You feel violated and just really mistreated. You had to stand before a crowd in shorts while they took measurements. They also x- ray every bone in your body.
The combine slots people for the draft. Scott was drafted in 1990. Jeff George was the #1 pick. He had a special workout in a controlled environment where he threw 80 yard passes. That made him the #1 pick.
Scott Mitchell and Jason Buck, hosts of Rivals are past football rivals at the university and professional level, come together to talk life and sports. Scott Mitchell was a record-setting quarterback at the University of Utah. He then went on to play for Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions, Baltimore Ravens, and Cincinnati Bengals. Jason Buck was drafted out of Brigham Young University in the first round of the NFL draft. He played on the defensive line for Cincinnati Bengals and Washington Redskins. He earned a Super Bowl ring in the Redskins victory over Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVI.
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