Last year’s NFL draft appeared at an odd stage of the pandemic, just about a month after states had issued stay-home orders and while people were eyeing toilet paper stockpiles with the look of a Max Max warlord, and the Virtual Draft was highlighted by then-novel video conferencing and Roger Goodell’s jaw-jutted paeans to American Strength as reflected by the Official Truck of the National Football League. The 2021 draft, done in front of a crowd of people who were masked, vaccinated, and wearing silly football-themed costumes, at least seemed like more of a return to normal where we can all revel in the entire exercise’s glorious stupidity without worrying whether a guy dressed as The Macho Man Randy Savage is going to instigate a superspreader event by screaming OOOH YEAH after the Browns draft a punter in the seventh round.
The Strangest Thing ABout the 2021 NFL Draft Was the Prominence of Northwestern Football Players
