I am not confident, but that’s nothing new.įor now, what I know, and hear, about the draft, 10 days out:ģ. Mock Draft alert! My one and only one is out next Monday. The only thing I have found professionally that is better than that, or that I get more excited about, is having the opportunity every single day to wake up thinking about how to make our country better, how to make my community better, how to make us stronger, how to make us more resistant to threats, domestic or foreign, and just make sure that the gift of America that we all inherit, that when I pass it on to my kids, that it’s in better shape than it was when it came to me.” The Lead: Draft Info It’s as cool as anything you can do, especially fresh out of college. I got to wake up every day for five years thinking about how to win Super Bowls. It turns out it’s impact that’s more important for me. I used to think I was motivated by money. “That job had some amazing perks too! This is just a personal thing. “You like this job better than running go routes for Peyton Manning?” We’re going to keep doing it as long as the voters will have us.” “I love this job more than my NFL job, frankly. “I love this job,” Gonzalez told me from his Washington office Friday. As interesting as that news is, my conversation with him yielded something that’s encouraging about our country at a time when there might not be a lot to be encouraged about. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), the 32nd pick in the 2007 draft Julian Edelman Sam Darnold Hope Trautwein Crazy numbers on tap New Rules Replay fix might be in trouble Christian McCaffrey Gambling Adam Schefter Marshawn Lynch Anthony Fauci Vaxxing.Īnthony Gonzalez will soon introduce major legislation affecting college athletes all over the country-and we’ll break the news here. With round one looming (Lord, this thing takes forever to get here, does it not?), we’ll be draft-heavy this week. “This year, a pick you’d get in the fourth round might be the quality of a sixth-round pick next year.” “I love getting picks next year,” Brandt said. Miami has two first-round picks in 2022 and ’23, Philly could have three ones next year, and the Jets have an extra one and two next year. This is why a few teams have deferred some picks to the future. And never has there been a draft when a quarterback likely to be drafted in the top 10, Trey Lance, has played one football game in 15 months. Never has there been a draft when one of the top corners, Caleb Farley, will be drafted having not played a football game in the previous 512 days. Never has there been a draft when the top three offensive linemen, all likely to be picked in the top 20, come in after a year off from football. Very seldom did they come back the players they were. “The opt-outs kind of remind me when we used to draft guys, then lose them for a year or two in the military. “This one ranks first, in terms of how unusual it is,” Brandt said Saturday. When you get to be 89, you’ve seen a lot of things. This is the 67th draft for Pro Football Hall of Fame personnel evaluator Gil Brandt, which means he’s worked all but 19 NFL drafts.
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