It is universal. It is unique.
It is stacked, adjusted and set. It is mocked, remocked and mocked again.
But unless you are one of the cooks in the proverbial football kitchen, you haven't seen it. It is the stew that everyone in the NFL makes and whose recipe is hidden from anyone outside the family.
It is the NFL draft board, a place where player rankings are handed out, complete with concerns, questions and the sometimes tenuous hope of finding the league's next big star.
And contrary to the notion of a "draft season," the blueprint to each team's draft weekend is a year in the making.