The NFL scouting combine is the biggest annual showcase of future football stars before the NFL draft, where players who have entered the draft get measured, run through drills and show scouts and coaches what they can do without any pads on.
This year, a record 333 players have been invited, and the Big 12 landed 30 invitations.
Draft stock can swing wildly during the week, with the main event -- the 40 time -- often serving as the catalyst for that stock. Call it silly, and in some ways it is, but it's the reality of the process. Here's who's headed to Indianapolis from the Big 12:
Tavon Austin, WR, West Virginia
Stedman Bailey, WR, West Virginia
Josh Boyce, WR, TCU
Arthur Brown, LB, Kansas State
Anthony Cantele, K, Kansas State
Marquise Goodwin, WR, Texas
Chris Harper, WR, Kansas State
Tanner Hawkinson, OL, Kansas
Tony Jefferson, S, Oklahoma
Lane Johnson, OL, Oklahoma
Landry Jones, QB, Oklahoma
A.J. Klein, LB, Iowa State
Collin Klein, QB, Kansas State
Jake Knott, LB, Iowa State
Joe Madsen, OL, West Virginia
Stansly Maponga, DE, TCU
Bradley McDougald, DB, Kansas
Stacy McGee, DL, Oklahoma
Tracy Moore, WR, Oklahoma State
Alex Okafor, DE, Texas
Joseph Randle, RB, Oklahoma State
Lanear Sampson, WR, Baylor
Quinn Sharp, K/P, Oklahoma State
Geno Smith, QB, West Virginia
Kenny Stills, WR, Oklahoma
Matthew Tucker, RB, TCU
Kenny Vaccaro, S, Texas
Terrance Williams, WR, Baylor
Braden Wilson, RB, Kansas State
Tom Wort, LB, Oklahoma
Pretty good set of players there. You can see them when the combine kicks off Feb. 20.
