The NFL draft is a year-long event.
No sooner does one draft end, then the next one begins. Perhaps the best bit of evidence for this phenomenon is the deluge of “way too early mock drafts” that pop up, sometimes mere minutes after a draft is finished.
These are usually imperfect and flawed exercises at best. After all, my own version from May of 2021 managed to get just two pairings correct, in terms of the right player to a specific team. I was able to predict George Karlafitis to the Kansas City Chiefs at the end of the first round.