While Drew Allar was unable to finish his final season at Penn State because of a season-ending ankle injury that required surgery, he will reportedly throw during the NFL Scouting Combine.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported as much Tuesday, noting the quarterback “has recovered” from his setback and will take the field in Indianapolis this week.
Allar could have been an early draft pick last year had he decided to enter the 2025 NFL draft after leading Penn State to the College Football Playoff semifinals. However, he decided to return and pursue a national championship in his final collegiate season.
Things went anything but according to plan.
He appeared in just six games prior to the injury and was rather pedestrian while completing 64.8 percent of his passes for 1,100 yards, eight touchdowns and three interceptions. The team also lost to Oregon, UCLA and Northwestern in his final three games, all but eliminating it from CFP contention.
Penn State ended up 7-6 and saw head coach James Franklin get fired as arguably the most disappointing team in all of college football last season.
Now Allar’s draft stock is also very much up in the air as he recovers from a serious injury. Throwing at the combine will give him an opportunity to prove he is healthy and ready to go and could serve to bolster his overall outlook.
This is also a weak quarterback class with Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza and Alabama’s Ty Simpson the only two in the top 50 players on the latest big board of prospects from B/R’s NFL Scouting Department. An impressive showing during the pre-draft process could help Allar separate himself from the rest of the secondary quarterbacks.
He is listed at No. 120 overall and the seventh-best quarterback on that big board, so he has room to improve.
But that improvement could start this week at the combine.