In spite of the immense amount of work poured into the process by seemingly a countless number of people, both at the professional and amateur level, it’s safe to say that it’s virtually impossible to accurately predict much of the NFL Draft. When you have 32 unique groups of decision-makers vying for the same ends, however, that shouldn’t exactly be surprising.
While there are a lot of players who have some sort of universal consensus about them—that they are a top-10 player or on the fringe of being draftable, for example—a large number of players tend to fall within a very large but clustered group that can span multiple rounds with respect to the range in which they might fall.