The NFL Combine is about far more than running the 40-yard dash, and one of the most important aspects of the league’s annual scouting showcase is the interview process. Throughout the week, the more than 300 players in Indianapolis engage in all kinds of discussions with teams — from informal chats with scouts and position coaches to grueling formal sitdowns with head coaches, GMs and even owners — and inevitably a weird question or two is bound to be asked.

In 2010, former Miami Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland made headlines when he asked Dez Bryant whether his mother was a prostitute. (Ireland, now a scout with the Saints, later apologized.) Last February, former Jaguars defensive end Austen Lane — a fifth-round pick in the same class as Bryant — sent out a series of tweets recalling some of the unusual Combine queries he received. And those are just the start, with other questions testing players' creativity, critical thinking and, often, their patience.

With that in mind, we asked 35 participants at the 2017 Combine about their most off-the-wall interviews. The premise was simple: "What’s the strangest or most memorable question you’ve heard in a conversation with a team, and why do you think teams ask them?" Their answers are below.