If the NFL draft was a television show — and make no mistake, it is nothing but — it had one big star Thursday before the first round: the Arizona Cardinals.
Former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle famously thought no one would watch the draft on TV. Make that infamously thought. It’s a ratings monster for the networks that televise it.
Why? Who knows. Mostly it’s hour upon hour of loud-talking, angry-sounding men in Nashville, Tenn., where the draft is held, telling you why they know who the first player selected is going to be.
Which they don’t, usually, unless there’s a consensus pick.