That’s a simple question that will likely produce some convoluted answer from the executive in charge of restocking your favorite NFL team’s talent base.
He’ll probably dance around the question, sprinkling in some draft jargon like BPA (best player available), and discuss where runs are projected at particular positions, and then bore us to death with talk about finding players who (insert yarn) “love football.”
I’ve heard it for a decade-plus from former Miami Dolphins’ executives like Bill Parcells, Jeff Ireland, Dennis Hickey, Mike Tannenbaum, and now general manager Chris Grier, who has been here for the past two decades of lackluster drafts, watching and learn from all of his predecessors.