Drop your pants and run.

What sounds like one of the necessary steps toward initiation in a college fraternity is actually what was going on in the Indoor Practice Facility this afternoon as a group of former BYU players stripped down to the bare minimum -- generally only shoes and some biker-type shorts -- and worked out in front of scouts and coaches from various NFL teams.

"It's intense," former BYU running back Curtis Brown said. "They want to see your best and they want to see it immediately. That's the game of the NFL. They can't give you five or six plays to warm up and get adjusted. They need you to step up and make a play, and that's how they structure these workouts."

Former BYU defensive end Jan Jorgensen wasn't planning on doing one particular drill, yet stripped out of his sweatpants the moment one of the scouts called his name.

"You just drop what you're doing and go," he said. "It's a positive thing. If they didn't care about you at all they wouldn't want to see you run, so it's a positive to see there were scouts who wanted to see more of me."

Besides Jorgensen and Brown, former BYU players Max Hall, Dennis Pitta, Andrew George, Manase Tonga, Shawn Doman, Tevita Hola and Jonny Harline went through the workouts, which included the bench press, 40-yard dash, broad jump, vertical jump, shuttle run and three-cone drill.

Former Cougars Chad Lewis, Rob Morris, Bryan Kehl and David Nixon were there to watch.

The leader of the NFL pack was Jonathan Hayes, a tight ends coach for the Cincinnati Bengals. After going through the standard drills with each player, Hayes went through several sets of hands-on drills with tight ends Pitta and George. Hall also threw under the direction of Bengals quarterbacks coach Ken Zampese and Charlie Frye, who started two games at quarterback for the Oakland Raiders last season.

"The key thing is when we come to these workouts we give them certain instructions and want to see if they can follow directions then go out and execute it," Hayes said. "Obviously they're going to do what they've been taught here at BYU, but we just want to see energy, their movement skills, their hand-eye skills and put it all together to get a feel for how they're going to do."

While Hall and Jorgensen had solid workouts, today was clearly about the tight ends. Pitta didn't drop a pass all day and George seemed to take advantage of the opportunity.

"They looked very good," said Lewis, who knows a thing or two about playing tight end. "Dennis is on his way to being a high draft pick and Andrew is doing a lot of good things for himself, too. There's a lot of interest in Dennis, so there are a lot of tight end coaches here, which is great for Andrew because he gets noticed more. I think both players were impressive."