What do tryout guys get (money, transportation, uniform???) to try out for an NFL team?
Thanks Answer Man. Answer Man: My pleasure, Steve. You’re pretty much on the money there. If a player is asked by an NFL team to come to the team’s facility for a tryout, the team pays for his transportation and his lodging while he’s in town. While at the facility, he is given any clothing or equipment he needs to perform his tryout. I think Steve is probably referring more specifically to the roughly 50 young players who came to One Buccaneer Place the weekend after the draft to participate in the team’s rookie mini-camp on tryout contracts. Same idea though – they’re flown in (or they drive if they’re local), put up in a hotel and issued team practice uniforms during the camp. Of course, the main thing these young men get is an opportunity. These are players who succeeded on the college level but, for whatever reason, were neither drafted nor signed as undrafted free agents in the days that followed the seven rounds. The Bucs structure their rookie camp this way, with so many guys o
