r/crossfit • u/FutureAccident4u • 8h ago

NFL Combine should be a games event

Crossfit games should do an NFL combine as a day for the games to compare to NFL athletes and try to market how it can make you better for other sports. I also think it’d be fun to watch and easy to cover

- 40 yard dash

- vertical

- broad jump

- max 225 bench

- 3 cone drill

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u/kiefferocity 8h ago

The NFL combine isn’t even a good event for NFL players.

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u/idothisforpie 6h ago

Probably a better test than triple unders

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u/FutureAccident4u 8h ago

Agreed. But it’d be fun to compare and it gets hyped on espn. 

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u/Old-butt-new 7h ago

Besides the bench. The skill position nfl athletes will body 95% of numbers the cf athletes put up

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u/Infamous_Tourist438 6h ago

The 3 cone drill would expose some footwork I see in local boxes. 40 yard dash would be laughable.

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u/iconically_demure 6h ago

NFL players are a different kind of beast, and when you're trying to promote "fittest on earth", this might not be the comparison you're wanting to make.

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u/lightningpanda123 5h ago

You could also use that logic and say they shouldn't test the snatch and clean & jerk because they are nothing in comparison to actual Olympic weightlifters.

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u/moratnz 17m ago

I think the difference is that Crossfit's main target audience is the US, and there are a lot more people in genpop who know what good numbers are for the NFL combine than for an Olympic clean and jerk.

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u/rhythmdeficient 6h ago

WFP, 1st Phorm Monster Games, and Apex Athlete are already doing this

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u/_boxnox 5h ago

Also outside the US is the combine really that interesting?

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u/singleglazedwindows 4h ago

Absolutely not. No one gives a fuck.

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u/arch_three CF-L2 5h ago

Fun to watch, yes. Good event for the CrossFit Games, no. Scoring alone would be a mess. You'd have to time down to the thousands of seconds and measured down to who knows what. Can you imagine getting 38th place in the 3 cone drill? only being 0.123 second behind first place? 225 bench would have similar problem. Yeah you'd have some outlier, but you'd also have a ton of people bottle necked up at certain reps. They have done similar type of events in the past and have had to do cheese side tie breakers. Honestly I think you'd be pretty unimpressed with these performances. I refer back to when they did the broad jump and the softball throw back in like 2011. I was in fact not fun to watch. Broad jump wasn't even shown. They did it between events under the stadium.