“Hi Darren. Thank you as always for your insights. I have two questions for you this week. We hear and read every year that a draft is loaded or that the draft is weak. Are there really some drafts that produce more or less quality professionals or is it a media thing where talent is more evident to spot by analysts? Also, what is your favourite moment of the offseason? Combine, draft, free agency, 53-man roster building?”
Vacation? Am I allowed to say vacation? Because that’s a really nice moment of the offseason.
But if I am *not* allowed to say vacation, I suppose I would go with the first night of the draft. The hype is there for the first round, you can focus on writing about one guy (or maybe two) and it’s usually an injection of optimism. The whole draft is a lot of work and realistically, most aren’t going to have an immediate impact. But the first round can be special.
As for the draft being great or not, there is always a subjective nature to this. But take QB for instance. It’s not hard to see the lack of consistent QB options in the draft this year if you watched college football. I’d trust the general scuttlebutt from analysts — especially those who clearly talk to people in the game — about a certain position being stronger or weaker. It doesn’t mean that it will prove out true in the NFL long run, but for instance, when you have so many teams leaning into grabbing more 2027 draft picks, there is probably something to it.
