Over the next six weeks, teams will pore over all of the necessary information at their disposal in order to whittle down and eventually finalize their draft boards.
For the most part, how they feel about these prospects hasn’t changed much since scouting staffs first provided grades after the college football season, but the most interesting debates are yet to come—and this year might be more contentious than years past.
Draft season represents a strange crossover on the NFL calendar. Scouts usually have contracts that run through the draft, but the coaches who are asking for certain (different) traits might have just been hired in January as part of a new staff, after scouts have already done months of work for a different regime or coordinator.