//MAQB: The Cost of Extended Training for NFL Combine; How ‘Hard Knocks’ Will Look This Season

MAQB: The Cost of Extended Training for NFL Combine; How ‘Hard Knocks’ Will Look This Season

News and notes from around the NFL, including how trainers are preparing for extended combine prep for players opting out of the 2020 season, what we can expect from this season’s ‘Hard Knocks,’ how Joey Bosa’s big payday could help his brother and more.

Real football practices get started this week. Let’s go …

• To me, part of the issue opt-out guys face is purely financial. Normally, it’d cost an agent upwards around $30,000 to get a player housed, fed and trained in the eight weeks leading into the scouting combine—a cost that’s gone up over the years and become increasingly vital to any player’s pre-draft process. Now, rather than eight weeks, we’re talking seven months. So I decided to turn over some rocks on this Monday, and called Pete Bommarito, who owns Bommarito Performance Systems in South Florida, as part of that.

He’s been training athletes for the combine