04-17-2017, 12:56 PM
A player not doing any private workouts is often an indication that he has a draft guarantee. A team will promise to draft a player if he is available on the condition that he not work out for other teams. Certainly this would be a plausible scenario for Philadelphia at #14 if they prize him as has been reported.
In any case, numerous players have decided not to conduct private workouts and still been drafted by teams that requested a workout and were turned down. There is as much game tape on McCaffrey as any top player in the draft, he took part in all the drills and tests at the combine, and he took part in Stanford's pro day, so it's not as if a team is taking on risk of the unknown by drafting him absent an additional workout.
In any case, numerous players have decided not to conduct private workouts and still been drafted by teams that requested a workout and were turned down. There is as much game tape on McCaffrey as any top player in the draft, he took part in all the drills and tests at the combine, and he took part in Stanford's pro day, so it's not as if a team is taking on risk of the unknown by drafting him absent an additional workout.