The NFL draft process is the result of months and months of film, interviews, filling out scouting reports, navigating the trades and fake interest, all for the point of hearing the names called out from behind the podium of the newest members of the Arizona Cardinals.
But the draft isn't just the end of the line for NFL teams; it is the beginning. The beginning of a long-wrought, pain-staking process that seeks to take these raw collegiate talents and turn them into professional war machines between the lines of the gridiron every Sunday. Some rise to the occasion from a lowly draft status, some fall short of the lofty expectations.