ESPN’s Mel Kiper released his first mock draft of 2020 this week and of course we all talked about it. Fans of every team gathered in droves to start imagining, with Kiper, what a first round in April could look like. It is nice to imagine things. Our imaginations give us all kinds of things to dream of and since we share the love of football, these are dreams we are happy to indulge in.
But alongside that we must also acknowledge that these are only fantasies, dreams, and figments of Kiper’s imagination. The real draft will look nothing like Kiper’s projections, not now and not when he posts his final mock in three months.