5 reasons to have Big Ten football played in the spring

5. College players can get better evaluated for the NFL

On the high school and college level, having football in the spring would benefit players. I have made the case with the first four slides of this article. But I also think having spring football would help college players get noticed more in the NFL.

This thought is similar to the idea that college coaches would have more time to recruit high school players if football was in the spring. On the other side of things, NFL scouts and coaches would have more time to evaluate college players if football was moved to the spring.

NFL is played in the fall and winter, everyone knows that. As previously mentioned, the NFL season gets over in early February with the Super Bowl. After that, the college game could start. NFL scouts and coaches would then have time to go watch players from all over the country.

There are so many players in the college game who get looked over every year. Scouts can’t possibly evaluate everyone and coaches of NFL teams are busy with in-season procedures. But if you had scouts and coaches out there, more college players would get a fair shake.

I think if you move college football to the spring, this would help college players get noticed more. It would free up time for the NFL evaluators to watch games and not just tape. This would help put a better product out on the field on Sunday’s too.