At the annual NFL Scouting Combine, athletes perform a number of workouts and exercises to showcase their athleticism to NFL scouts, coaches and general managers. Among the exercises is the three-cone ...

Every year there's a highly rated cornerback prospect who slips down NFL draft boards after his postseason workouts simply because his lack of 40-yard dash speed. Typically, once a cornerback's lack ...

Players start in a three-point stance in front of three cones that are set up in a triangle or L shape, with each cone five yards apart. They then sprint five yards to one cone, sprint back to the ...

While all of the vertical jump, broad jump, 40-yard dash and shuttle run drills can be used to measure explosiveness as well as other traits, the three-cone drill is the one that focuses primarily on ...

Every year at the NFL Combine, NFL fans are granted a chance to learn about the year's top prospects and pick favorites ahead of the NFL Draft. Fans and analysts alike won't necessarily learn anything ...

Leading up to the 2015 NFL Scouting Combine, theScore's staff will take you through all the events the top prospects will participate in. The combine takes place in Indianapolis from Feb. 17-23.

It was on the second day of my combine grind that the Parabolic trainers set up the lines and cones for testing. The three-cone drill, also known as the “L drill,” was among the first we ran, almost ...

The 2023 draft class of edge rushers is good. Damn good. From Will Anderson Jr. to Tyree Wilson to Lukas Van Ness to Andre Carter II to Myles Murphy and a myriad of other top talents, it's a ...

One of the many drills that prospects participate in at the NFL Combine is the 3-cone drill. Here is an explanation of the exercise. The NFL Combine may have begun on March 1, but the first day of ...