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‘A
Mysterious
Year’
—
Twelve
People
In
NFL
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Rooms
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It’s
a
different
year
in
the
draft.
It’s
too
early
to
say
who’s
going
where,
and
too
early
to
know
who’s
trading
with
whom,
because
most
teams
are
in
the
final
days
of
stacking
their
boards
and
placing
values
on
players.
But
there
are
two
things
in
the
NFL’s
87th
draft
that
stand
out,
from
conversations
with
12
GMs/coaches/personnel
people
on
Friday
and
Saturday:1.
This
could
be
the
first
draft
since
the
NFL
began
the
“Annual
College
Player
Selection
Meeting”
in
1936
that
has
no
one
who
touches
the
ball
getting
picked
in
the
top
10.
No
running
backs,
of
course.
Quite
possibly
no
wideouts;
the
Jets,
picking
10th,
look
to
be
the
first
place
a
receiver
might
go.
And
with
the
quarterback
picture
so
lousy
and
so
cloudy,
who
knows?
We
all
know
Carolina,
picking
sixth,
could
well
take
a
quarterback.
And
we
know
a
desperate
team
for
one
(Pittsburgh,
picking
20th?)
could
be
motivated
to
move
up
for
one.
“But
unless
Carolina
takes
one,”
one
GM
said,
“I
can’t
see
any
team
picking
one
in
the
top
10.”2.
It’s
going
to
be
a
bad
year
for
mock
drafts.
Great
line
from
a
top
GM
Saturday
night:
“You
can
take
the
top
20
most
plugged-in
guys
in
your
business.
Ask
them
to
pick
the
top
10
guys
in
this
draft.
I
would
bet
a
lot
of
money
no
two
guys
have
the
same
top
10.
When
you
don’t
know
who’s
going
one
or
two
or
three
at
this
point
of
the
year,
you’ve
got
a
mysterious
year.”Lots
of
interesting
tributaries
to
this
draft,
as
told
to
me
by
those
in
the
draft
rooms
over
the
weekend,
and
we’ll
start
with
the
first
pick.
After
Kyler
Murray,
Joe
Burrow
and
Trevor
Lawrence
were
locked
in
atop
the
three
most
recent
drafts
by
now,
a
very
unfamous
Georgia
Bulldog
is
a
serious
contender
for
number
one
this
year.
The
Lead:
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I
asked
my
12
draft-authority
panelists:
Less
than
two
weeks
b...
profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
Apr 18, 2022
