SI

I was talking to someone recently who was bemoaning the state of NFL draft media and, really, the entirety of this process. Not on the media side of the operation, this longtime eater, sleeper and breather of the draft has been reading mocks for years and was disgusted by the desperation all of us have writing them to seem in the know, when we really can’t totally be. Sure, we can study the prospects and do. We can ask coaches about them, and do. We can spend time with the players and their families, and do. And we can attempt to use all of this information and put it toward some sort of practice replica of what Thursday night’s first round will look like. And we do.