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The 2022 NFL Draft is less than a week away. Evaluations of players eligible for this draft have been ongoing for well over a year. For the general managers, the scouting departments, and of course, the players, all of the hard work is set to pay off when the Jaguars officially go on the clock April 28th at 8 p.m. A lot is made of the final month or two of the process, with the scouting combine in Indianapolis and individual prospects’ pro days, but the truth is most teams had their almighty draft board almost completely locked in well before that. The film of last season is, and always will be, what teams use most to determine a player’s potential draft slot. The workouts in a t-shirt and shorts may move a player up or down as much as a round, according to most talent evaluators, but it is not the make-or-break scenario a lot of us might think. The whole pre-draft process is a bit of a contrived off-season circus. Mock drafts try to nail down a completely fluid situation that gets muddied by trades and smokescreens. It is just another exercise we in the media like to engage in for one simple reason: People like them.