2024 NFL Draft Class

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2024 NFL Draft Class Link

Importantly, this data is not the "final" set of data that NFL teams will have before the draft (date TBD). There will be several events and processes that will shed more light on a player's skills and give more in-depth information. Those events include:

• Pro Days
• NFL Combine
• Focused Scouting

What follows is basically the dev diary explaining last year's draft process, but with updated information for this year as some things have changed!

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What are the point of these events? What does this matter? Well first, any player that attends a Pro Day, the NFL combine, or is specifically scouted by an NFL team (although only the team that asks about a player will know) will have more information about their skills revealed. This extra data includes:

40 yard dash times, bench reps, 3-cone drill times, etc.

Position-specific drill results.

Background checks (Discipline assessments) [FOCUSED SCOUTING ONLY]

Now, let's get into the actual draft process!

Pro Days

This year, asked that conference commissioners select the top 2-3 players from each school to be invited to the conference Pro Day. Not all draft-eligible players from school were selected, but those that were will have their extra information revealed publicly. These will all be posted at the same time.

Remember, the numbers from these events are being done at their schools, and their schools want them to look good. This means that sometimes (but not always), a school might "put their fingers on the scales" so-to-speak when it comes to testing numbers.

NFL Combine

The 300 invitees to the NFL Combine were announced here: 2024 NFL Combine Invitees

These events are being run by the NFL, not the schools in question. Thus, these numbers may be slightly more objective (but not necessarily!).

Focused Scouting

Focused Scouting is a system that will allow each NFL team to scout an additional 5 players. This year they can be any draft-eligible player. These players will be invited to the team's facility and run through a workout from the team's coaches. In addition, your "security personnel" will do background checks on the players to see if they have anything that might indicate their character on the field (discipline). Then, the results of that workout (exactly the same as the Pro Day and Combine information, plus the discipline assessment) will be made available to the team that requested it.

Here is where Focused Scouting gets interesting, however. Teams will submit their list of players they want scouted in secret. That is, they will submit their list directly to the NFL through a google form. Only the NFL team that invites a player to be Focus Scouted will get their information. Also, to be clear, any team can invite any player that wasn't at the NFL combine and didn't get a Pro Day and a player can be invited by multiple teams. However, because the team has to invite players to their facilities, the players invited will become public AFTER all teams have invited players.