The NFL draft a College football athletes dream, something
they work for their whole life if they see making it to the NFL as their dream.
There whole college career has to define weather they will be able to go to the
draft in the first place. A lot of people didn’t know that to actually go to
the NFL draft you have to be invited. The people inviting you are based off an
amount of votes you get when reviewing your college career and if they think there
is something you bring to the table basically that someone else doesn’t. It’s a
crazy game being drafted.
A lot of things go into getting ready for the draft normally
an athlete of a certain caliber were officially say they are going to the NFL
after the season. After this is done they have found an agent or start looking
for one. The agent pretty much does all the work for the athlete as far as
getting in touch with other coaches.
All the player does is begin a crazy lifting and diet
schedule to make sure they are ready to preform when the date comes for them to
showcase their skills in front of coaches and scouts that work for the only
sport that owns one day of the week.
The daily life of an athlete getting ready for the draft
start as followed
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8:00 am – Wake up
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8:30 am – Breakfast
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9:00 am – Team meeting on objectives
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9:30 am – Work out 1 (including – combine drills,
such as Vertical , broad jump , 40 yard dash, l cone , agility , position
drills)
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11:30 am – Lunch
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2:00 pm –
Work out 2 ( weight lifting such as Olympic lifts , lower body , upper body ,
strength movements . core training)
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4:00 Pm –
Recovery
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5:30 pm –
Dinner
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7:00 pm – Team meeting , focused interviewing
skills and film review
Their life defiantly isn’t something that isn’t taking
seriously during this time period if anything it’s one of the hardest things
they have to go through at this point of their career. But they see it as it
all being worth it at the end.
But preparing for the draft isn’t the only thing these
players get to do to showcase their skills. They also get a pro-day in college.
It’s basically a day where scouts interested in a player can come and look at
them perform certain things without the pressure of the draft. At this pro-day
players from the college all work out together in front of the scouts which can
always boost someone else’s stock that a scout wasn’t there to see.
There are numerous candidates that enter the draft every year
and every year there is a list that ranks the players from 1-100. There are
also many mock drafts done by very experienced and smart analysis that make their
livings off just the NFL draft. A mock draft is very simple it’s basically a
draft similar to the actual draft but it isn’t official, which is why it’s
called a mock. It’s like a test run and as certain things progress for players
and they are seen more and more by scouts there draft stock can go up or down.
The dream of being drafted into the NFL is one you have to
be ready for. It isn’t for everyone. Are you ready for it?
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