How do you get into the NFL besides playing in college and going to the draft ?
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You can try out, but they recruit players that way infrequently, often just for a practice squad and even then you probably won’t get in.
Undrafted free agent. Long odds.
You surpass be damn excellent to do that. Yeah, you can try out, but you surpass have exceptional speed, strength, or a cannon for a arm and accuracy to boot. The NFL ain’t peewee, pop warner, or high school.
ever seen the movie impregnable..yeah…ud have to be like vince papale
Without any institution playing experience you have zero chance. Many, but not all, teams do have open tryouts from time to time. Even if you were a 4 year institution starter but went undrafted your chance of making a 53 man roster are extremely tiny, less than 1%.
I recommend that you go to a 1-aa school and play their for 3 years then you could have a chance to start in the NFL or at least be on the team roster, and even if you don’t play while you’re on the team roster always be prepared because you never know when the coaches will call your number out when somebody is injured in the 1st string. Or instead of going to institution go to the Arena football league for about 2, 3, or 4 years and trust me you may not get the high salary but it will lecture you the speed of the game before you go to the NFL.
Institution is the best way to get there, obviously….if you dont make the draft, you can still go to the CFL or semipro or even the AFL, and try to stand out enough there that you get the attention of an NFL team and get invited to work out for them.
CFL or NFL Europe.
I’d go to institution. Once in a blue moon a guy may get invited to camp who hasn’t played in institution. Typically in that situation they are a world class track star. Really I believe that Bill Schroeder, the former Packers & Lions WR didn’t play institution football…but he was a track star. I reflect you need to get an invitation to try out. By the way, “Impregnable” was a small inaccurate. Papale was playing in the World League or AFL (something along persons lines). They knew who he was during the tryouts because his 40 time was under 4.4 during his playing days. It was still a fantastic tale, but it was greatly exaggerated by Disney. If you don’t reflect you could go to institution, your odds of making an arena league team are a LOT surpass. That may eventually lead to an NFL tryout if you rip it up. Look at Kurt Warner…although he also played institution ball for Northern Iowa which is a very respected 1-AA school. Excellent luck!
Play Madden and pretend you’re in the NFL.
well you could try out for an AFL team and if you make it hope you are excellent enough for an NFL team to notice you and give you a shot
Maybe Divine intervention?