Immediate draft grades can be kind of silly (but admittedly fun). After all, none of the players involved have actually played anything yet, and until they do and provide us with some new information, the best grade of a draft is probably the draft itself, or failing that, the consensus boards. I’ve written on this in the past and it’s still true.
However, I do have a soft spot for attempts to grade or quantify the process teams used in the draft, which brings us to this piece in The Athletic by the aptly-named Austin Mock.