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How does a GM know if they are ready for the NFL draft?

NFL personnel departments spend the year putting together a draft board they'll largely use for only three days in April.

They take hundreds of names, thousands of hours of evaluation, more than a little hearty debate, piles of airplane tickets, interviews, miles traveled to practices and games, and it's all tossed into a blender of sorts to find the line -- the line between doing all of the due diligence that can be done and information overload.

Or as former Pittsburgh Steelers and Buffalo Bills general manager Tom Donahoe once said: "You don't want to get to a point where you can't remember why you liked the guy in the first place.