The first two days of the NFL Draft are as celebratory as any event on the sports calendar. The rock concert backdrop offers an engineered glitz for the moment, but those first days seldom disappoint the fans and special guests craving new football content months after the Super Bowl's end. It's the unofficial start of a new year, and it's stamped by the images of new professional players celebrating either with their families or at remote locations in front of primetime audiences.
Yet the draft's greatest rounds, the ones that arguably mean the most to both a franchise and the players chosen, are the complete antithesis of both of those days by the time they kick off on Saturday.