That sound you hear this morning is applause across the entire NFL community. The NFL Scouting Combine will return to Indianapolis for 2026, sources tell CBS Sports, continuing a nearly four-decade partnership with the city that has successfully hosted the event that is essential to NFL Draft preparation.

After the NFL considered the possibility of taking the annual scouting combine on the road in the upcoming years, the league decided to maintain the

The NFL Scouting Combine will remain in Indianapolis for at least the next two years. The league announced this morning that the 2026 Combine will be in Indianapolis, the city that has hosted it since 1987. The 2025 Combine had already been slated for Indianapolis, but that was the last year of the NFL’s previous agreement with Indianapolis.