Odell Beckham Jr. not a fan of the combine

When Odell Beckham Jr. was coming out of Louisiana State into the NFL, few knew how good he would be.

Some scouts were turned off by Beckham's wiry frame and low bench press result at the scouting combine, but the New York Giants knew talent when they saw it and picked the receiver 12th overall.

The combine is often talked about as a place where players can prove their worth and show why NFL teams should spend a pick on them. Beckham disagrees with that notion, citing his own combine experience.

"I'm going to keep it real, I think it's a lot more politics," Beckham told DraftKings, when asked about the combine process. "I remember going into all the rooms and they're like 'you can only bench seven (times) on the bench press.' And I'm like 'bench is not football. In one play, you're not going to (hit someone) 32 times in one play, you're not going to seven times. It's going to be one."

Beckham feels the physical drills that are emphasized by television networks and analysts are just a small part of the combine process and at the end of the day, it's about what's done in the games.

"The combine is really all a test. There's a little bit that's physical and the rest is mental. You're waking up at six in the morning everyday, You're getting questioned by coaches every day. They want to see how you'll respond, about how you're going to handle adversity, seeing the physical features.

"At the end of the day, the eye in the sky never lies. You can go watch that film, you turn it on, you'll be able to see - no matter what they did at the combine - you can watch what they do when they're playing football."