News Update: A Scout’s View: The Importance of All-Star Games in the Evaluation Process

Two major College Football All-Star Games are held for a week of practice and one game. The games are, of course, the East-West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl.

The Shine game has been hosted in Las Vegas for the past two years, but because that is the location of the Super Bowl this year, the game has been moved to the Star, which is the home of the NFC East Dallas Cowboys.

The Senior Bowl, as always, will be hosted in Mobile, Alabama. The Senior Bowl is the more important of the two games since it has a long history and, for the most part, attracts the superior roster. But in recent years, the East-West Game, under the supervision of  has made significant gains.Eric Galko,

There are numerous reasons for this, the first of which is that the week of All-Star sessions is often the first time most of these guys have played football in over a month. It can take nearly two months in certain situations, depending on if their school competed in a Bowl game and whether the athlete chose not to participate.

 

After their season concluded, the vast majority of these players attended performance camps to prepare for the forthcoming Combine and Pro Day circuits.

At these camps, they focus more on conditioning and perfecting Combine-style activities than on football abilities. This has been the situation for over 20 years, and assessors are aware of it.

Throughout the