The same tests and drills given at the Combine are administered all over again.
Houston isn't the only team that has focused on prospects who shine at the combine's esoteric exercises.
"I've been looking at the combine since it was on TV, " Goggins said.
In 2000 we had the fastest player at the combine who had been taught a technique of counting his steps.
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Hnida, who later kicked for the Fort Wayne Firehawks of the Continental Indoor Football League, was surprised a player with no true kicking background would be scouted at a combine.
Team officials, including coach Doug Marrone, met with the receiver at the NFL combine in February.
Te'o ran a 4.82-second 40-yard dash at the NFL combine, slow for a linebacker.
Then he ran a 4.82-second 40-yard dash at the NFL combine, considered slow for a linebacker.
Ryan denied those suggestions last month at the NFL combine in Indianapolis, and did so again Monday.
The Bills' message was less definitive a little over a week later at the NFL combine in Indianapolis.
Could it be poor 40-yard sprint times at the NFL Combine?
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The opportunity to re-sign with Buffalo was first broached during conversations between team officials and Scott's agent at the NFL combine in Indianapolis last month.
Te'o did so with an official time of 4.69, more than a tenth of a second faster than he ran at the scouting combine last month.
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There had been no formal contract talks between the Bills and Parker until the two sides met at the NFL combine in Indianapolis over the past week.
But what may have hurt his draft status most was his poor play in the national title game loss to Alabama, and his slow 40-yard dash time at the NFL combine.
Utah defensive tackle Star Lotulelei, who also had a heart scare at the NFL combine but then checked out fine, went 14th to Carolina, followed by Texas safety Kenny Vaccaro to New Orleans.
But before a single war room phone rings, and prior to the donning of any brand new Nike team caps, a week at the scouting combine in Indianapolis (February 20-26), gives football fans the chance to punch up the NFL Network and join stopwatch-toting GMs in evaluating the latest crop of linemen as though they were livestock.
Coming up on January 6 at Conseco Field House, home of the Indiana Pacers: the two-day Midwest Sports Business Combine, aimed at recruiting young sales pros to peddle tickets for the Pacers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Red Wings, Cincinnati Bengals, and several other major sports franchises.
The offering will combine rentals at the kiosks with streaming of online content.
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While the Raiders have been obsessed with speed, the Houston Texans appear to prefer players who excel at one of the combine's less-heralded workouts: the three-cone drill.
Organizers estimate that at least 10% of Combine participants will be placed.
In the end, safety beat out nostalgia, head coach Curt Fischer said, and the districts agreed to combine students for at least next season.
Even so, the first female kicker scheduled to try out at an NFL regional scouting combine would like to see where her new hobby will take her.
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Whether the athletes heading to the NFL Combine are training at their respective alma maters or attend a private training facility, they are certainly putting their bodies to work in preparation for the event.
If you combine that with playing at Croke Park, they will take some containing.
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But a vortex mask requires only one telescope whereas an interferometer needs at least two, in order to combine, and thus cancel, several images.
The Keck interferometer, now under construction at Mauna Kea on Hawaii, will combine four 1.8-metre telescopes to mimic a 100-metre telescope in just this way.
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