NFL Combine: How NIL Has Made It Harder — And Easier — To Scout QBs

INDIANAPOLIS — Evaluating quarterbacks used to be so easy. The best ones stayed for several years in the same program, typically playing for the same coaches in the same system. Tracking their development was consistent and simple. In the NIL era, it’s not so simple anymore. "Well," Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider said this week at the NFL Scouting Combine, "they've attended, like, seven schools, you know?" Maybe not quite that many. But more and more, top prospects are becoming products of NIL money and a transfer portal that can send them on a long and winding journey throughout their collegiate career. NFL teams are already navigating a landscape with an older group of top...