There was a time when the NFL draft was probably the football event I was most interested in each year. I remember as a kid treating that Saturday — when they held the first three rounds all on one day and you could bundle in for eight hours of coverage — like a holiday. And I still find the first round to be very exciting, instantly marrying franchises together with prospects for four, sometimes five, and sometimes even two or three years!
But as time goes on covering professional football, I’ve had less time to form a heavily informed opinion on college prospects other than in reading the evaluations from the last couple of months.