By MATT MARKEY (ToledoBlade.com) -

INDIANAPOLIS — More than 300 of the top college players from around the country will shuffle into Lucas Oil Stadium over the next few days, set to engage in a pre-employment ritual known as the NFL Combine.

It is a job interview, disguised as a beauty pageant, wrapped in a tough man contest, and is also part playground Olympics, part punt, pass and kick, with a pseudo alien kidnapping and psychological probe thrown in there.

The Combine is the primary evaluation session where coaches, medical personnel and other representatives from all 32 NFL teams put a select group of invited college players through a unique collection of exams.

There is the 40-yard dash, where tenths of a second can translate into additional zeroes on the right side of those first NFL checks…..

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