ITS DRAFT DAY!! … Updated Where is everybody? Of course, the draft is still several hours away so folks will be excused if they sleep in a little, although the guess here is that most NFL personnel people have already been up and at it for hours. And I am not sure if anybody has asked the questioned why is that draft still at 8 PM ET. Everybody everywhere is at home. There is no real prime time anymore. They actually could have started it literally anytime today. A few things we’ll be watching in the lead up to the draft. Detroit, which picks third and holds the key to how the rest of the top ten evolves if as expected Joe Burrow and Chase Young are the first two players off the board, has said that if they move the pick, they want a deal in place before the draft starts. Of course, there is nothing that says that the Lions won’t still take calls once they get on the clock, but it does put a little more pressure on anyone that does want to move up to the 3rd pick. In fact, Washington, which has the 2nd pick and is supposedly still taking calls for that selection, has also said they want anything sealed before the start of the draft if they were to move that pick, although the Redskins are believed to be far less motivated to deal than the Lions. As noted in an earlier there are also as many as a dozen quality veterans who could be traded today in moves that would very much impact the opening round. Top names that could be dealt today include Washington LT Trent Williams, NY Jets FS Jamal Adams, Jacksonville DE Yannick Ngakoue and Tampa Bay TE O.J. Howard. Of those, a trade for the Redskins’ Williams appears to be the most likely. Washington reportedly is talking with as many as 4 teams including the NY Jets, Cleveland, Minnesota and Philadelphia. The Redskins are reportedly asking for a 2nd round pick, but would reportedly accept a package of lower round selections.
