Shortly after 4:00 PM on Thursday, April 30, 2015, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be “on the clock” to kick off the NFL Draft. That will begin hours of intense discussion, tactical maneuvering and contingency planning by Baltimore Ravens’ GM Ozzie Newsome and the Ravens “war room” staff.
The decisions made by Newsome and his counterparts on the other 31 NFL teams will profoundly affect the lives and futures of the 255 young men who will be drafted during the three days shopping tour. However, their decisions will also affect countless undrafted free agents as well as a handful of GMs and coaches that find themselves on the wrong end of those decisions.