On to Indy … With the Senior Bowl now in the books, the focus of the college scouting departments around the NFL now turns to the annual Scouting Combine which gets underway on February 17 in Indianapolis, although most NFL teams give their scouting staffs some kind of break during the Super Bowl period. Each team then reconvenes in the respective war rooms sometime early in February where they put together their preliminary board for the upcoming draft and identify the players they want to concentrate on at the combine and the various pro days around the country which get underway early in March. For those that missed it, the North won a reasonably entertaining Senior Bowl game 35-13 yesterday afternoon. Nebraska RB Ameer Abdullah, who ironically was a game-time decision because of a hamstring problem, was named MVP after he rang up over 100 yards from scrimmage, while Canadian Ivy Leagurer Tyler Varga of Yale ran for a couple of scores.
