If the NFL Draft were held in a total vacuum, if there were no surprises, no trades up, no crazy reaches and no cascading falls, the Chargers would know who they’re taking Thursday with the No. 17 pick in the first round.
The evaluations are done. The grades are in.
But it absolutely, 100 percent, doesn’t work that way, and that’s why in the final hours leading up to this thing, Chargers General Manager Tom Telesco and his staff don’t know who they’ll be adding with their first pick.
So, in the final few days leading up to their pick, Telesco and his staff have been running through scenarios, doing their own mock drafts to try and best prepare for Thursday.