If you think that buying a lottery ticket is a shot in the dark, then you have an idea about how the NFL odds for the draft works. It’s true that scouts spend a lot of time looking at the various players coming out of college, and that teams spend countless hours assembling a draft board that tells them which of the remaining players is likely to be the best overall player, and which is likely to fulfill a need that that particular team has. Of course, all it takes is a freak injury, an injury off the field or a player who simply doesn’t fit well into a particular scheme that converts a blue-chip prospect into a wasted pick.
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