There's an old saying that hindsight is 20-20. And it's as true in the NFL as anywhere else.
Take the 2022 draft, for example. By this time a year from now, it will have been discussed and dissected to infinity…and beyond. The picks who play well as rookies will be hailed as values. Those that do not will be pilloried as busts. There will be redrafts galore.
The thing is, why wait?
Sure, it's only been a couple of months since the draft happened, and the rookies involved haven't even had their first training camps. But reports are already leaking out, whether they are praising a quarterback's mental approach or expressing concerns about a wide receiver's durability.