Former GM Charley Casserly On How Altered Draft Prep Affects Ravens, NFL

4/7/20

By Luke Jackson, PressBox

Charley Casserly was the general manager of the Washington Redskins from 1989-1999 and the Houston Texans from 2002-2005 and is now an analyst for NFL Network and NBC Sports Washington. He joined Glenn Clark Radio March 27 to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the draft process and more.

PressBox: You more than anybody can give us some insight into how much this situation really is impacting NFL teams as they’re going through the draft process. What really does this do for a team as they’re trying to build their draft board not having the ability to bring these players in or get in front of them the way they have in the past?

Charley Casserly: I was in the league before there was a Combine. There were no senior pro days. It was not uncommon to draft players that you didn’t have a physical on, believe it or not. I came from that era, so even though it is not the right thing to do, you’re going to have to work with it. Again, I was there when we didn’t have these things. It comes down to a couple of things. The quality of your area scouts. In other words, if you’ve got good area scouts, they know these players. They know their backgrounds. They know the red flags on them.

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