For many, playing professional football is the culmination of a lifetime’s worth of hard work and dedication. As such, draft day for these NFL hopefuls represents perhaps the most pivotal moment in their young and promising lives.
However, if it’s true that a man who has nothing to lose has nothing to fear, then an NFL draft pick suddenly just got a million new reasons to be afraid.
In this league, a healthy dose of fear will keep you safe, that is if you can manage it properly and use it to your benefit. Obviously, if this fear is allowed to run rampant it can devour you from the inside out and paralyze your potential, but make no mistake—fear permeates the thoughts of every NFL draft prospect from the first pick to the last—we just never hear about that end of the emotional spectrum.