Patriots should draft Will Campbell at No. 4 | Mark Daniels

BATON ROUGE, LA - NOVEMBER 23: Will Campbell #66 of the LSU Tigers in action against the Vanderbilt Commodores on November 23, 2024 at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Gus Stark/LSU/University Images via Getty Images)University Images via Getty ImagScouting is an imperfect science.

During the 2019 NFL Combine, I spoke with an NFL general manager, and he told me the brutal truth – no one knows what prospects will be great. It’s all a guessing game. He joked that although media-based mock drafts were laughable, not even general managers or scouts truly could predict the future.

That’s because they’re scouting college athletes competing against other college athletes while…