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University of Miami tight end Elijah Arroyo will not workout at the NFL Scouting Combine this week.

Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Arroyo injured his knee at the Senior Bowl. Arroyo, though, does plan to be ready to perform for scouts at UM’s Pro Day on March 24.

Arroyo could go as early as the second round depending on his medical evaluation at the Combine.

He played 11 games in his sophomore and junior seasons combined because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Arroyo had a breakout season in 2024 with 35 receptions for 590 yards and seven touchdowns in 13 games and followed that up with a solid Senior Bowl showing.

Arroyo finished his college career with 46 receptions for 753 yards and eight touchdowns.


One of the top prospects in this year’s draft class won’t be working out in Indianapolis during this week’s Scouting Combine.

Defensive end Abdul Carter’s agents told Adam Schefter of ESPN that their client will not be doing on-field work. Carter injured his shoulder in Penn State’s playoff win over Boise State and played through it in a loss to Notre Dame, but was only cleared to return to full work a short time ago.

“We fully expect Abdul to be recovered in time to work out at his pro day at Penn State and he will perform at a very high level,” Carter’s agent Drew Rosenhaus said.

March 28 is the date of Penn State’s pro day, which gives Carter, who is widely projected to be a top-five pick, over a month to prepare for his moment in the spotlight.


Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty will not work out at the Scouting Combine.

Jeanty will only do medical testing and interviews, his agent told Tom Pelissero of NFL Network.

Jeanty does plan an on-field workout at Boise State’s Pro Day.

The 5-foot-9, 215-pound Jeanty had one of the most productive seasons for a running back in college football history last season, carrying 374 times for 2,601 yards and 29 touchdowns in 14 games. He was a first-team All-American and was the Heisman Trophy runner-up.


East Carolina cornerback Shavon Revel was establishing himself as a first-round prospect in the 2025 NFL draft before suffering a serious knee injury last season. But his doctor says that injury shouldn’t scare NFL teams off.

Revel’s doctor, Daniel E. Cooper, said in a letter to NFL teams that he expects Revel to be good to go for the start of the 2025 season.

“He is on schedule for full return to play this summer,” Cooper wrote. “When he reports to an NFL team after the 2025 draft, he will be cleared for all strength and conditioning activities and individual running and cutting drills as a defensive back. He will not be cleared for participation with the team until training camp. This is routine for the protocol after ACL reconstruction in football. Any of your trainers or team physicians can contact me for further discussions as needed.”

Along with Colorado’s Travis Hunter, Michigan’s Will Johnson and Notre Dame’s Benjamin Morrison, Revel is considered among the top cornerbacks in this year’s draft.


The Cowboys will have Dak Prescott back for the 2025 season, but the rest of their quarterback room is set for some changes.

Cooper Rush and Trey Lance are both set to become free agents and it does not sound like the team is planning for either one of them to return. Executive vice president Stephen Jones said the team thinks highly of Rush, but they “just don’t know what he’s going to cost” and “unfortunately we do have to go cheap” at backup quarterback because of their other commitments.

Jones said Lance is “probably going to be looking for something different” after two years as the third-stringer in Dallas and that has the Cowboys looking to April’s draft as a place to add someone behind Prescott.

“You know, I think one of our goals is to get a young quarterback in the draft,” Jones said, via David Moore of the Dallas Morning News. “I don’t know where that’s going to be. That’s why we gave a [fourth-round pick] for Trey. It seems like all the quarterbacks, even guys we have in the fourth round, go in the first. They always go so much higher than what you think.”

The Cowboys will get a chance to scout quarterbacks at this week’s Combine, but it will be a while before we learn if they’re able to secure the one they want in Green Bay in April.


Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders will not work out at the Scouting Combine.

Sanders will interview with teams but not participate in the on-field workouts, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network.

Sanders does plan to throw at Colorado’s Pro Day, where he’ll have receivers he has worked with in college to throw to. He’ll also have his father and head coach, Deion Sanders, overseeing the event.

Top prospects often choose not to participate in the on-field drills, thinking they have a better chance of putting their best foot forward in a more controlled environment at their pro day workouts.

Sanders was once viewed as the betting favorite to be the first overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft, but in recent weeks Miami quarterback Cam Ward has been viewed as the most likely top pick. Ward is currently a -140 favorite to go first overall at DraftKings. Ward is followed in the betting odds by Penn State pass rusher Abdul Carter at +165, Colorado receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter at +550, and then Sanders at +650.


Some NFL players choose to represent themselves. For many, they’re better off being handled by a good agent. Only two in the incoming class have a Hall of Fame father who is also an accomplished college football coach.

In the list of new players and agents distributed by the NFL Players Association, two names don’t appear: Shedeur and Shilo Sanders. This means they’ve yet to hire agents. Which also means that, with the Scouting Combine days away, they currently don’t plan to.

The belief in league circles is that their father, Deion, will advise them. Which makes sense, for several reasons.

First, when it comes to rookie contracts, there’s not much to negotiate. Even if/when Shedeur goes early and Shilo (who wasn’t invited to the Combine) goes late, the labor deal has simplified the process of hammering out entry-level contracts.

Shedeur is expected to be one of the first quarterbacks drafted. He joins the likes of Caleb Williams and Lamar Jackson as high-end quarterbacks who opted not to hire an agent.

For Williams, not having an agent didn’t matter because he was the consensus, no-brainer, No. 1 pick. For Jackson, not having an established agent to fend off the pre-draft nonsense (e.g., he should change positions) might have contributed to Jackson — a two-time league MVP — sliding all the way to No. 32.

Shedeur will have a hype man and a defender in Deion. If anyone starts spreading about Shedeur what Deion would call “bulljunk,” Deion will engage. And he’s got the platform and the voice to register.

In the end, every player has to decide whether his interests are best served by hiring an agent. For some, the right move is to go it alone. For those looking simply to avoid paying a percentage to an agent by lining up a team of unlicensed (by the NFLPA) agents, bookkeepers, and/or lawyers to send and receive dummy emails, there might be a better approach.

For Shedeur and Shilo, they’ve decided the smart move is to do it themselves, with Deion’s help. Which means that, for them, their interests will be protected, and advanced.


Shilo Sanders’ father Deion is a Hall of Famer and coached Shilo at Colorado. And Shilo’s brother Shedeur is expected to be a top pick in this year’s draft. But Shilo himself, who played cornerback at Colorado, is not viewed as an elite prospect and was not invited to the NFL Scouting Combine.

So Shilo will have to prove his athletic talents via other workouts, and toward that he has hired Zybek Sports, the company that provides the official timing to the NFL at each year’s Combine, to document Sanders’ workouts and verify his 40-yard dash times.

“I didn’t get invited to the Combine, but I brought the Combine to me,” Sanders said in a video about the process on his YouTube channel.

The first video Sanders released did not reveal his 40 time, but Sanders said he’ll be working with Zybek Sports regularly and that NFL teams will get the information from his workouts.

“We’re going to be using this to track training and track progress,” Sanders said.

If Sanders is going to make it to the NFL, he’s probably going to have to do so as an undrafted free agent. But he’s doing everything he can to drum up attention in the two months before the draft.


The Scouting Combine has been an Indianapolis institution for decades. And for good reason. Indy is the perfect host for the event.

But it’s not the most profitable. And some within the league’s power structure continue to agitate to take the Combine on the road.

The talk has lingered for years. But coaches, General Managers, scouts, players, and agents prefer the fact that it’s convenient, it’s efficient, and for the most part it’s not overwhelmed by bells and whistles that can get in the way of the work to be done.

As explained by Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal, other cities remain interested in hosting the event. And if/when the league decides that the late-February offseason tentpole could become a significant profit center if it’s moved, the owners wouldn’t hesitate to pull up the stakes.

Already, more than a few coaches have started skipping the Combine altogether. If the week becomes more difficult to maneuver, with time wasted in getting from one place to another, more coaches surely will decide to pass on attending. And if enough coaches don’t care enough about the Combine to be there in person, why should fans?

Currently, not many do. As Fischer notes, broadcasts of last year’s Underwear Olympics averaged 224,000 — making it far and away the low-water mark for any new NFL-related content. Would moving it make it any better? Probably not.

The fact that the expanded regular season has left only two full weeks between the Super Bowl and the Scouting Combine won’t make it more attractive.

Still, the league hasn’t closed the door on leaving Indy in the dust. Chief NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy provided this quote to Fischer, regarding the future of the Combine after the current deal expires next year: “Our focus is on staging a successful Combine in Indianapolis next week and in 2026. There are a number of markets interested in exploring hosting the event.”

Who know where it will go from here. I know this, if it’s no longer in Indy, plenty of coaches, executives, and others (hand raised) will decide it’s not worth the trouble.