The MMQB begins a series of inside-inside football stories and video pieces for the 2017 season with a view into the life of ESPN NFL information czar Adam Schefter on his busiest day of the year: the kickoff day to NFL free-agency.
LAS VEGAS — Sunlight streams through the sixth-floor windows of the Clark County Government Center and bounces off 13 metal shovels hanging on commissioner Steve Sisolak’s office walls. Each one commemorates the start of a different construction project, more dirt dug in the desert. One for the clubhouse of the Las Vegas 51s, the Mets’ Triple-A affiliate and the city’s longest-tenured team.