Two hours into a grueling training session during a not-so surprisingly humid South Florida day Scooby Wright is oozing with sweat, but his body shows no sign of exhaustion.
He's the first in line for every drill. The first athlete in a group of highly-touted NFL draft prospects to finish every rep.
Trainer Pete Bommarito uses Wright as the example for how he wants each rep, every exercise to look.
"He's one of the hardest workers I've ever had, and I've worked with plenty warriors," said Bommarito, who has trained more than 85 draft prospects at Bommarito Performance Systems, the training center he owns, which caters to professional athletes of all sports.
Wright has plenty of work to do because he has a ton of talent evaluators to impress this week in Indianapolis at the NFL's scouting combine.
"The biggest thing with me is to clear out my medical, check out with that, and just to prove my athleticism in the drills and do what I know I can do," said Wright, who had 270 tackles, 15 sacks and forced five fumbles in his injury-shortened three seasons with the Arizona Wildcats.
"I need to learn how to run, get my mechanics down. Running a 40 (yard dash) is completely different than football."
And that's why draft prospects annually train with specialist like Bommarito during this critical evaluation process.
Back in 2014, Wright was the top linebacker in college football. He had 163 tackles and won the Lombardi, Nagurski and Bednarik awards.
Then he tore his meniscus in Arizona's 2015 opener. He sprained his foot trying to come back and was shut down after two games. Wright returned for the New Mexico Bowl and had 15 tackles and two sacks to lead Arizona to a win over New Mexico.
The junior then announced he was declaring for April's draft.
"He's a smallish two-down defender that's being overrated at this present time," said draft analyst Tony Pauline, who owns Draftinsiders.net.
"He needs to run fast at the combine, but in the end I believe he's a last day (fourth-seventh round) pick."
NFL teams will do their homework on draft prospects like Wright. Every player will be weighed, measured, timed, evaluated by doctors, interviewed, and have their intelligence tested in various ways.
The better a prospects does, the higher he could be picked, which means the more money he'll eventually make on his first deal.
Despite all the great things Laquon Treadwell accomplished during his career at Ole Miss, all evaluators will be talking about regarding the 6-foot-2 receiver this week at the combine will be his speed. The combine is about identifying each player's shortcomings and analyzing them.
Treadwell knows that if he can post a 40-yard dash time in the 4.4 seconds range it could make him the first receiver taken, and ultimately help him earn a few million more on his rookie contract.
"Our scouts love him," said one NFL executive, whose team is shopping for a starting receiver. "The only question we have on him is how fast is he? We hope he runs [at the combine]."
And that's why elite prospects like Treadwell spent their time ahead of the combine trying to measure up to expectations. The worst thing they could do is raise a red flag by running a slow 40 time, dropping passes during drills, or failing a drug test.
"I have to increase my speed, and my acceleration. I'm out here working hard," said Treadwell, who caught 82 passes for 1,153 yards and 11 touchdowns for Ole Miss last season after suffering a broken fibula and a dislocated ankle in a late-season loss to Auburn in 2014. "I think everything will workout for me if I continue to work hard, continue to push myself."
Outside of learning proper technique for combine drills, Baylor defensive tackle Andrew Billings hopes to impress the scouts with his altered physique.
The projected first-round pick has lost 10 pounds since he began training with Bommarito and weighs 310 pounds. He recently maxed out at 605 on the bench press.
"It's important," Billings said of the combine. "They want to see how you move. They have a lot of film on you, have a lot of game film, but they want to see individually how you move."
