This will be a draft without traditional NFL “war rooms,” without Roger Goodell bro-hugs, without live end-of-day press conferences, without team-sponsored draft parties in auditoriums, without top prospects arrayed around tables in flashy suits, nervously awaiting their NFL fate.
It will be weird. And with an unprecedented reliance on technology in an industry dominated by crusty old “football guys,” it could get REALLY weird.
But the show is going on. Here is my 2020 Remote Quarantined Socially Distanced NFL Mock Draft.
BENGALS
Joe Burrow, QB, LSU: Cincinnati has its best QB since Boomer Esiason. America has live sports again. WASHINGTON
General manager Bruce Allen delivers the pick but his laptop is on mute. He keeps mouthing words that look, to the best of anyone’s guess, like “feathered toaster over.” Pick forfeited. LIONS
Fifteen minutes of video feed show an empty office with eight monitors, three phones and a Lions helmet, but no people. A cat briefly walks through the frame. Silence. Pick forfeited. GIANTS
Chase Young, DE, Ohio State: ABC cameras cut to Young’s family home. No one is smiling. Maybe they didn’t hear he was drafted by the Giants. Or maybe they did. DOLPHINS
Jeff Okudah, CB, Ohio State: A building-block defensive player for Miami. CHARGERS
Jeff Okudah, CB, Ohio State. NFL officials are telling the Chargers that Okudah has already been selected. LA coach Anthony Lynn and GM Tom Telesco apparently can’t
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