Maybe Vinny Cerrato isn't the Anti-Christ

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Originally Posted by Beemnseven

I've never understood the structure of the scouting department and what their actual duties are. In other words, how many scouts are there total?

-- Is one scout sent out at a time to look at one game and evaluate everybody who plays in that game on both teams?

-- Do they assign scouts to various positions -- like a group of scouts looks at all the offensive linemen, another group looks at linebackers and so on.

-- Is there anything like assigning scouts to a particular region around the country? For instance, a scouting department is assigned to the southwest, the northeast, midwest, that sort of thing. Or maybe they could be devoted to college divisions and conferences like Mountain West, Pac-10, Conference USA?


With all the money Danny Warbucks has, you'd think he could flood the country with scouts -- get the best scouts money can buy. There's no salary cap with those guys, we know that.

If I remember correctly on the pro level Louis Riddick oversees the scouts. And each scout is assigned a certain number of teams whose rosters he evaluates. The college side of the scouting team is headed by Scott Campbell. This group is regionalized. So, for example, one person might scout the west coast, someone else the southeast, etc. In total I think there's something like 20 scouts.