NFL Draft
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Rosenthal: Televising NFL draft was ESPN's first major coup
“It was actually the first big coup for ESPN when ESPN started in 1979 and 1980 was televising the NFL draft.”
Gilbert: NIL money will improve NFL rookie classes as players develop longer in college
“Because now that players can make money in college, there's not as much of an incentive to get thrust into the NFL before they're ready. They can sort of develop longer mentally and physically before coming to the NFL, so we may have sort of better rookie clas…”
Snead: Rebuilding teams should draft pillars; contenders should draft for need
“When you're collecting talent, again, you're trying to collect pillars. So pillars and have them grow together. And then once you break through, I think that's when Team builders probably need to be a little more specific, right, where sometimes you do draft f…”
Snead: Rams absorb player character risks by surrounding them with high-character peers
“So there's moments where you go, hey, let's, let's draft a lot of A plus kids, and then maybe we'll put in One C kid intangibly, C minus kid intangibly, and definitely hope that, right, the gang, the tribe there will bring you on in our culture as a whole.”
Snead: Draft selections are IPOs; on-field performance is the stock price
“Where a player is projected to go pre-draft. I call that speculation, right? By third parties. And then where a player is drafted is, I call that his IPO. And then at the end of the day, what he does after that pick is his stock price, right? And that's the mo…”
Snead: The talent gap between draft picks 28 and 50 is small
“The difference between the 28th pick and the 50th pick is, is, is probably a lot less than most fans the naked eye interpret.”
Massey: Intensive qualitative evaluation creates an illusion of predictive power
“These guys who believe in analytics and believe in the trade down philosophy and believe in uncertainty, it's a lot easier to believe in that stuff in January than it is in April, because between January and April, they're studying film. They're having debates…”