This week, the NFL is much ado about, well… I don’t want to say nothing.
Let’s be clear: the prospects eligible for this year’s NFL supplemental draft are all talented and some of them are even very much so. In a typical draft class, it’s likely that two of them—defensive backs Sam Beal and Adonis Alexander—would have heard their names called, at least, among the lot of selected prospects in a regular NFL Draft haul.
But let’s also be clear about something else: a period that’s typically reserved for vacations for all—executives to players to analysts—is abuzz with pre-draft hype.