Douglas DeFelice-USA TODAY Sports (Goodell); Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports (Bowden); Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports (Delpit)
Here’s a story from three years ago, about a normal scene in the draft room. A quarterback was up on the screen, and the debate was healthy, robust and all over the place.
One scout in the room had him graded as worthy of the first overall pick, while others had first-round grades on him but weren’t quite that strong. Others still marked him as a second- or third-round pick. And no one was really pounding the table, until a coach, who’d seen limited tape on the kid, declared, “I f---ing love this guy.