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Acing combine tests doesn’t necessarily foretell NFL stardom

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By ARNIE STAPLETON
AP Pro Football Writer

The staple tests at the NFL combine consist of the 40-yard dash, the 225-pound bench press, the vertical and broad jumps, the three-cone drill and the 20-yard shuttle. Acing any one of them can vault a prospect up the draft board. But killing it at the combine doesn’t necessarily foretell NFL stardom. Some of those who posted top-five all-time scores at one or more of the drills never even got drafted and in a few cases they didn’t even play a single snap in the NFL.

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