Labriola on grades, draft as theater, 1974
May 07, 2021 at 06:53 AM
Ready or not, here it comes:
• Finally, mock draft season is over, but the bad news accompaniment to that good news is it's now grading the draft season. Mock drafts may be pointless, but putting a grade on a team's draft 15 minutes after it's over adds a layer of meaningless to the pointlessness.
• What makes these somewhat humorous is the same people who do the mock drafts then come back with their grades, and it always seems as though teams get good grades if they end up doing what the mock drafter suggested/proposed, while the grades are lower for the teams that dare defy the prognosticator.