PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A conference-record 20 players from the American Athletic Conference are among the 337 participants who will perform in front of National Football League coaches, general managers and scouts at the 2020 NFL Scouting Combine Feb. 27-March 1 in Indianapolis.
Temple had four players invited to the combine to lead the conference's contingent. UCF, Cincinnati, Memphis, SMU, Tulane and Tulsa will send two players each to Indianapolis, while UConn, Houston, Navy and USF each had one invitee.
The American's 20 participants will be the most in the conference's seven-year history. The American had 18 players in the 2017 combine and 16 in 2018.
UConn's Byron Jones remains the combine's record-holder in the standing broad jump (12 feet, 3 inches in 2015), while the Huskies' Obi Melifonwu is second (11 feet, 9 inches).
The 2020 NFL Draft will take place April 23-25 in Las Vegas. The American, which has had at least one player chosen in the first round in each of the last six drafts, most recently Ed Oliver from Houston, who was the ninth overall selection in 2019.
American Athletic Conference Invitees to 2020 NFL Combine
| Shaun Bradley |
LB |
Temple |
| Nevelle Clarke |
CB |
UCF |
| Rodney Clemons |
S |
SMU |
| Gabriel Davis |
WR |
UCF |
| Josiah Deguara |
TE |
Cincinnati |
| Antonio Gibson |
WR |
Memphis |
| Trevis Gipson |
DL |
Tulsa |
| Harrison Hand |
CB |
Temple |
| Matt Hennessy |
OL |
Temple |
| Josh Jones |
OL |
Houston |
| Thakarius Keyes |
CB |
Tulane |
| Darnell Mooney |
WR |
Tulane |
| Matt Peart |
OL |
UConn |
| Malcolm Perry |
WR |
Navy |
| James Proche |
WR |
SMU |
| Reggie Robinson II |
CB |
Tulsa |
| Chapelle Russell |
LB |
Temple |
| Patrick Taylor |
RB |
Memphis |
| Michael Warren |
RB |
Cincinnati |
| Mitch Wilcox |
TE |
USF |