Scouts Highsmith, Seale Get Closer Look At Combine

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Most of the Green Bay Packers' personnel who will attend next week's annual Scouting Combine in Indianapolis will conduct the usual types of evaluations - watching players go through their drills and workouts from afar, and visiting with them in the formal interview sessions.

But two members of the team's scouting staff get a little bit different look at some of the prospects, carrying out the role of "group leader," a chaperone of sorts for a given position group.

Southwest scout Alonzo Highsmith and West Coast scout Sam Seale both have worked as group leaders at the Combine for the last several years, and they agree the experience gives them mental notes they can add to the official scouting reports on the players they work with over a three- or four-day span. This year's Combine begins Feb. 24.

"I always use it as an opportunity to meet the top players (at their position), see their attitude," said Highsmith, who has been a group leader for several diffe..

Source: Packers.com