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Browns host Regional Combine
By Matt Florjancic, ClevelandBrowns.com Staff Writer

Posted Mar 17, 2012

aaBEREA -- The Casey Coleman Fieldhouse served as the host of one of the NFL’s Regional Combines this weekend.
BEREA -- As part of an on-going mission to find the best and brightest players for its 32 teams, the National Football League hosted one of their eight Regional Combines at the Casey Coleman Fieldhouse in Berea this weekend.

Two-hundred players got an opportunity to work out in front of NFL scouts with a chance to be invited to Ford Field in Detroit for the Super Regional Combine on Friday, March 30.

“We’re looking for two fundamental aspects of these players, first of all, their athletic ability,” said Stephen Austin, Director of NFL Regional Combines. “With their size, speed, strength, quickness, they’ve got to meet certain minimums to play in the NFL. Following that, we’re looking to see how they move in drills that are designed to evaluate players at their position. We want to see how the defensive backs would back-pedal; we want to see wide receivers and their route-mechanics and hands.”

During the Regional Combine, scouts and former NFL executives put the players through their paces in general athletic ability drills, as well as those that are position-specific. Each player is timed and filmed participating in the short shuttle run, 40-yard dash, vertical jump and three-cone “L” drill.

Quarterbacks participate in the deep-throw and pocket movement with escape drills, while running backs go through the off tackle reaction, change of direction pitch and pass routes drills. Offensive linemen go through a change of direction wave, as well as long and short pulls and pass pro mirror and rush drills.

Wide receivers and tight ends ran basic pass routes, in addition to the over-the-shoulder and sideline tap drills. The sideline tap drill is designed to see a player’s ability to get two feet down in bounds after making a catch along the sideline.

“If you’re a player coming out of a college football program and you want to play in the NFL, you need to go either to the Indy Combine or if not, you automatically go to a Regional Combine,” Austin said. “It’d be like if you want to go to college, you take the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test). There’s no big discussion about it. That way, we’ve got a central stage for all of the football players to come and be evaluated by the league.”

Along with Cleveland, Los Angeles, Houston, Baltimore, New York, Atlanta, Chicago and Tampa Bay have all hosted Regional Combines this year. Including former New York Jets wide receiver Wayne Chrebet, Indianapolis Colts defensive back Nick Harper and four-time Super Bowl winning kicker Adam Vinatieri, over 400 players have made it to the NFL in the 23 years the Regional Combines have been held.

“You just never know, but they’re there and we don’t want to miss any of them,” said Austin. “That’s why we have this program.”




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