Giants general manager Dave Gettleman talks to the media during training camp at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center in East Rutherford, N.J., on July 26, 2019. Credit: Brad Penner
You think a virtual draft will be a challenge? The NFL is holding its mock version of that process Monday to iron out all the technological wrinkles that might pop up when its teams are on the clock for real beginning Thursday.
But wait until after the draft is over on Saturday evening. That’s when the real chaos will begin.
Even in the best of times, when teams are holed up in their bunkers and have the ability to communicate as easily as talking across a room or passing notes across the table, the frenzy of trying to sign undrafted free agents is an adrenaline rush of confusion.