NFL draft will be “fully virtual” - club personnel will draft individually from home

[MrEpsYtown]

What I would do to get in on our Bills zoom meeting???

[thebandit27]

If your computer fails then use one of the other 17 bajillion ways we have to communicate to send in your pick. Deals get done via hardline phones during the draft normally. Just call, text, use FB messenger, etc. This is easy stuff guys.

[MrEpsYtown]

Good thing this isn’t Buddy Nix anymore. You know some team with an antiquated front office will be inundated with penises during their zoom draft. 

[CapeBreton]

Here is a list of the 58 prospects invited to attend this year's virtual draft, usually an indication that there is significant interest in them:

 

A.J. Epenesa, Iowa DE
A.J. Terrell, Clemson CB
Andrew Thomas, Georgia OT
Antoine Winfield Jr., Minnesota S
Austin Jackson, USC OT
Brandon Aiyuk, Arizona State WR
C.J. Henderson, Florida CB
CeeDee Lamb, Oklahoma WR
Cesar Ruiz, Michigan G
Chase Claypool, Notre Dame WR 
Chase Young, Ohio State EDGE
Cole Kmet, Notre Dame TE
D'Andre Swift, Georgia RB
Denzel Mims, Baylor WR
Derrick Brown, Auburn DL
Ezra Cleveland, Boise State OT
Grant Delpit, LSU S
Henry Ruggs III, Alabama WR
Isaiah Simmons, Clemson LB
J.K. Dobbins, Ohio State RB
Jacob Eason, Washington QB
Jake Fromm, Georgia QB
Jalen Hurts, Oklahoma QB
Jalen Reagor, TCU WR
Javon Kinlaw, South Carolina DL
Jaylon Johnson, Utah CB
Jedrick Wills, Alabama OT
Jeffrey Okudah, Ohio State CB
Jerry Jeudy, Alabama WR
Joe Burrow, LSU QB
Jonathan Taylor, Wisconsin RB
Jordan Love, Utah St. QB
Josh Jones, Houston OT
Josh Uche, Michigan LB
Julian Okwara, Notre Dame EDGE
Justin Herbert, Oregon QB
Justin Jefferson, LSU WR
Justin Madubuike, Texas A&M DT
K'Lavon Chaisson, LSU EDGE
Kenneth Murray, Oklahoma LB
Kristian Fulton, LSU CB
Laviska Shenault, Colorado WR
Lloyd Cushenberry, LSU G
Mekhi Becton, Louisville OT
Neville Gallimore, Oklahoma DT
Noah Igbinoghene, Auburn CB
Patrick Queen, LSU LB
Prince Tega Wanogho, Auburn OT
Ross Blacklock, TCU DT
Tee Higgins, Clemson WR
Terrell Lewis, Alabama EDGE
Thaddeus Moss, LSU TE
Tristan Wirfs, Iowa OT
Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama QB
Xavier McKinney, Alabama S
Yetur Gross-Matos, Penn State EDGE

 

 

Missing - Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Cam Akers, Michael Pittman Jr.

 

Thaddeus Moss is also a surprise invite considering he is most likely a day 3 pick, Jalen Hurts is also listed and I expect him to go a lot higher than projected.

[frostbitmic]

Somebody will screw up and draft a girl from porn hub... My money is on Jerruh.

 

If the entire draft is virtual will they have virtual clips of the drafted players ?

[MrEpsYtown]

11 hours ago, frostbitmic said:

Somebody will screw up and draft a girl from porn hub... My money is on Jerruh.

 

If the entire draft is virtual will they have virtual clips of the drafted players ?

I think he goes Sasha Foxx

[Irv]

Patriots working on electronic espionage for draft.  

[JaCrispy]

This is the one year I’m actually glad the Bills traded away their 1st round pick...

[DJB]

On 4/11/2020 at 8:43 AM, thebandit27 said:

If your computer fails then use one of the other 17 bajillion ways we have to communicate to send in your pick. Deals get done via hardline phones during the draft normally. Just call, text, use FB messenger, etc. This is easy stuff guys.

 

Exactly.  I don't understand all the fear mongering the media is spreading that GM's apparently have. 

 

These guys dont Zoom during the season to make trades. They pick up their phone to talk or text. 

 

It's not rocket science lol

[YoloinOhio]

1 hour ago, DJB said:

 

Exactly.  I don't understand all the fear mongering the media is spreading that GM's apparently have. 

 

These guys dont Zoom during the season to make trades. They pick up their phone to talk or text. 

 

It's not rocket science lol

Again, If there is apprehension, I think it’s more about the ease and timing of communication/decision making among their own personnel guys, scouts, ownership and coaches during the draft than it is about phoning in the picks or making trades. It’s certainly doable but it’s just different and not what anyone is used to in what is already a stressful period of time. 

Edited April 12, 2020 by YoloinOhio

[DJB]

11 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

Again, If there is apprehension, I think it’s more about the ease and timing of communication/decision making among their own personnel guys, scouts, ownership and coaches during the draft than it is about phoning in the picks or making trades. It’s certainly doable but it’s just different and not what anyone is used to in what is already a stressful period of time. 

 

Agreed. 

[Saxum]

3 hours ago, Irv said:

Patriots working on electronic espionage for draft.  

 

Correction: New England has already worked on electronic espionage for draft.  

15 hours ago, frostbitmic said:

Somebody will screw up and draft a girl from porn hub... My money is on Jerruh.

 

If the entire draft is virtual will they have virtual clips of the drafted players ?

 

Maybe they just get more advertising/sponsor money and do Madden for all picks.

[BillsFan4]

 

 

 

https://www.nbcsports.com/video/falcons-thomas-dimitroff-gives-peter-king-tour-2020-nfl-draft-war-room?amp&__twitter_impression=true

 

 

Edited April 12, 2020 by BillsFan4

[CommonCents]

Should have the owners from each team announce their picks. Have them do it from different room or places on their property. It would be like a cribs episode with some drafting mixed in. 

[DJB]

35 minutes ago, CommonCents said:

Should have the owners from each team announce their picks. Have them do it from different room or places on their property. It would be like a cribs episode with some drafting mixed in. 

 

Problem is when we get to Kraft we might see this?

 

[YoloinOhio]

 

[Saxum]

57 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

 

New bugs from his friends in Russia.

[YoloinOhio]

• Making picks will happen like this: Each team’s designated drafter will be connected to the league’s official Microsoft Teams private and encrypted draft channel, and will make the pick through that channel. There are two fail-safes: A GM can call Fiore or a member of his team directly by landline or cell with the pick. Also, there will be a conference call for the length of the draft with club officials muted; the club official designated to make the pick can unmute his/her line and announce the pick. If the pick is made through Microsoft Teams, Fiore or his representative will announce on the conference call that a pick has been made and the next team is on the clock.

• Time for picks. Same as in recent years: 10 minutes per pick in the first round on April 23, seven minutes per pick in rounds two and three on April 24, five minutes per pick in rounds four through seven on April 25. There was discussion about expanding the time, but it sounds like the league will be less autocratic about the clock if there’s a legitimate reason (blackout, etc.) for a team to be late with a pick.

• Connectivity. Each team will have choices, but I talked to five over the weekend about the mechanics of it. The Saints, for instance, will have two videconferences working simultaneously. One will have GM Mickey Loomis, coach Sean Payton, assistant GM/college scouting director Jeff Ireland and VP/football administration Khai Hartley; the other will have those four people plus every scout. The four-man group will be open for free discussion while the larger group will likely mostly be muted, with Loomis or Payton having the ability to unmute, say, the scouts with the most knowledge about a particular player. Say they want to pick LSU linebacker Patrick Queen in the first round; Loomis could ask the scouts who were at LSU the most in 2019 for their thoughts.

 

Trading. That’s what teams are still working out. One GM told me he’s likely to divide the 31 potential trade partners into four groups. Each one of those groups, with seven or eight teams in it, will be told before the draft if he/she has a trade to discuss during the draft to call the contact person, who will then tell the GM that Team X wants to talk trade. If the GM can pick up right then, he will, and he’ll engage that team. But it won’t be as smooth as having everyone in the same room. As Chargers GM Tom Telesco told me: “If there’s multiple teams involved, that’s where it gets a little tricky. That’s what we have to work through. We’re going to have some people who’d usually be at our draft-room table who will probably be connected by video-conferencing. So I can talk to them while I’m on the phone. If there’s a couple of phones going off, I may have one of my kids pick up the phone. It’s all hands on deck. Could have both of my sons with jobs—keeping track of who’s been picked, the board. It’ll be fun.”

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/04/13/nfl-draft-rumors-coronavirus-life-peter-king/

[Saxum]

So that is why Microsoft Teams was rammed down computers throats without easy way to turn it off for those not needing.

 

Microsoft wanted the publicity of NFL using it and hoped to leverage it into sales campaign.

 

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

On 4/12/2020 at 10:46 AM, JaCrispy said:

This is the one year I’m actually glad the Bills traded away their 1st round pick...

yeah between this and a potential reduction in ota and camp stuff, the move starts looking brilliant 

Edited April 14, 2020 by Over 29 years of fanhood