'Tape Is The Best Guide!' NFL Coach Skipping Combine Again

The annual NFL Scouting Combine is meant to showcase young players eligible for the NFL Draft to teams, scouts, and executives who make those big decisions on draft day.

But not everyone sees the value.

Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay has skipped the annual event since 2020 and will not be attending this year in Indianapolis.

"I’m not going to the Combine," McVay told reporters Thursday, via Pro Football Talk . "I think the most important thing is what the tape looks like and then what is the vetting and the human being.

"If there's anything that has consistently become clear when you reflect on the seven years and as [General Manager] Les [Snead] and I, and really our organization, continue to identify the types of players that we want in our building, and really types of people in general, it's people that are tough .

"It's people that cannot allow the outside circumstances to dictate their response. But there's a steadiness, there's a commitment to core values and principles, they love football, they want to keep the main thing the main thing.

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"Then as it relates to just the evaluation, the tape is the best guide. I do think that those other things are good metrics, but we're asking guys to play football not run track and field. It is something that's a measurable, but it's not as important as some of the other things for us.”

McVay last attended in 2019, and in the four years since, the Rams have made the playoffs three seasons and won a Super Bowl. So whatever it is that McVay and the higher-ups are doing is working.