INDIANAPOLIS — A waiter led Thomas Dimitroff past the tightly spaced wooden tables and around a corner to a table on the first floor of St. Elmo Steak House. Dimitroff, a former general manager of the Atlanta Falcons, looked around in bewilderment as he pulled his chair in.
It was Tuesday night, the second day of the N.F.L.’s scouting combine, and the scene looked much different from the way he remembered it in his visits over decades rising through the ranks of pro football.
Roger Goodell, the N.F.L. commissioner, was among the agents and TV broadcasters who moved past the dimly lit room where Dimitroff sat to head downstairs, where the league’s V.