ISFL Scouting Combine

The results of the annual workout day for ISFL prospects are here, and this season's class of seventy -- exactly the same size as last season, oddly enough -- have subjected themselves to the annual spectacle that is the ISFL Scouting Combine. Apparently that re-vamp of the whole event is “coming soon” … so no change since the first time we heard about it ten seasons ago. Nice.

Anyway, as usual, the scouting combine took place over a few days, giving ISFL front office people a chance to get a look at their potential draft selections, doing… athlete-y things, I guess? Though that doesn’t explain why kickers are here. No, really. Why do we ask kickers to bench 225 lbs? I don’t get it.

Anyway, first up, the quarterbacks


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Next up, let's look at the running backs.


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On to the wide receivers.


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Tight ends, next.


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Uh, on to the offensive linemen, then.


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Time to switch sides and look at the defensive linemen now.


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Moving back a level, we have linebackers.


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Now we reach my personal favourite position group; the defensive backs.


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Finally, we come to special teams. I'll be honest, I only include this because the kicker mafia makes me do it  -- pls dont kill me, run; or “olx dinr jull mre” as you’d say
Nah but for real though, who ever heard of a sport where kicking is the most important attribute?
(for those of you who don't get the joke, 37thchamber is a retired soccer player/coach in real life)







To wrap things up, some notes about this season’s combine.

Only two players broke onto all-time top ten lists this year: Xander Creed’s 4.24 seconds in the 40 yard dash is good enough for equal 5th fastest, just one-hundredth of a second behind the record; and Ace Savage’s 3.93 second shuttle run is also equal 5th all-time, three-hundredths of a second behind the record set by Josh Garden in season one. Notably, Savage’s shuttle time has only been equalled or better once since season one (season 25, by Darren Pama).

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