As the NFL draft gets underway this week, teams will assess the “fit” of a player by examining the raw data of their ability to perform—based not on the ranking of their college or on how they would describe their skills, but on hard data including their performance on drills at the recently completed NFL Combine. Based on one recent analysis of the over 300 NFL prospects who participated in the Combine, only two of the top ten players with the strongest performance for their position went to nationally ranked schools. The top rated player in the tryouts came from Harvard, known much less for its football program than its reputation for churning out business leaders.
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