If the cards fall right — and there are a number of folks purported to be in the know who say they will — the Oklahoma linebacker will realize the first step in his dream of an NFL career.
Murray, along with wide-receiver and teammate CeeDee Lamb, is expected to be selected in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft, which is set to begin Thursday night and will run for three consecutive days. This year’s draft will be unique, however, with the entire draft to be conducted virtually for the first time in the annual event’s 85-year history because of all the stay-in-place restrictions being imposed because of the COVID-19 outbreak.