NFL Scouting Combine staying in Indy beyond 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The NFL Scouting Combine will remain in Indianapolis through 2026, sources told News 8’s Anthony Calhoun.
It is a one-year extension for the event, which was already previously scheduled to take place Feb. 27 – March 2, 2025, at Lucas Oil Stadium.
The 2026 NFL Scouting Combine will be the 39th straight year that Indy has hosted the event.
The four-day, invitation-only event allows NFL scouts to evaluate that year’s top draft-eligible college players.
The NFL has considered moving the event away from Indianapolis. Dallas and Los Angeles attempted to host it in 2023 and 2024.
The 2024 NFL Combine generated an estimated $10 million in economic impact and attracted more than 27,000 fans.
Indy’s 2023 and 2024 combines included a Kicking the Stigma program, designed to focus on the mental health of Indianapolis residents.
The Scouting Combine has included a free fan festival, the NFL Combine Experience, in the past. At the festival outside Lucas Oil Stadium in 2024, fans could get photos with the Colts Super Bowl XLI Vince Lombardi Trophy, view all 57 Super Bowl rings, participate in games, and purchase merchandise from the NFL Shop.
The NFL Combine Experience will return in the South Lot of Lucas Oil Stadium in 2025. Fans will also have access to “Inside Look,” which will take them inside Lucas Oil stadium for up-close look at the NFL’s future stars.
“Indianapolis is uniquely designed and built to host an event as complex as the NFL Combine,” Colts COO Pete Ward said in a release. “Efficiently moving prospects, team owners, coaching staff, medical personnel, and national media is seamlessly done in Indy, and the Colts are proud to be part of the team keeping the event in our city.”
Fans can register their interest now at NFL.com/Combine prior to event registration opening in March.