Some final things I want to discuss about the draft.
I find it so interesting how certain players rise so much and others fall so much in draft rankings AFTER the CFB season is over mainly due to hype. It’s one thing for a player to rise or fall due to a combine performance or off the field incidents, but when they simply rise or fall off media hype, it’s something to watch out for.
There is so much time between the Super Bowl and draft, it inevitably leads to players getting good or bad hype, partly because it keeps things interesting. This leads to players like Zach Wilson rising up to number 2 in the draft and other players falling. For teams that identify this, they can avoid overhyped players and get great value for guys who dropped for basically no reason.
The last thing I want to touch on is how much the NFL dominates other sports leagues. The NHL and NBA playoffs were going on during the NFL draft and the MLB season is kicking into full gear, but the NFL draft still dominated the sports world. Even the current US President, Donald Trump, was tweeting about it.
The NFL has done an amazing job of making the draft the second biggest event of the NFL calendar. To make an event that they are simply picking new players and not even playing a game so massive is impressive. More people watched the first round of the draft (13.6 million) than watched the clinching game of the NBA Finals (12.2 million) last year. No other sports league in the US could make their draft such an event.
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