Scouting Notebook: Matt Miller’s Final Team-by-Team Reports, Jared Goff Q&A

April 26, 2016   ·   Matt Miller   ·   Jump to comments

For fans of the NFL draft, 12 months of speculation and waiting all comes down to three days of excitement. For NFL scouts, coaches and general managers, nine months of work comes down to three days of nail-biting and hair-pulling as they watch the players they covet come off the board.  
The NFL draft is equal parts excitement and anxiety, but it's also the No. 1 area in which teams are built. Have a good draft class and your team is a playoff contender (see the Oakland Raiders' 2014 class as evidence). Have a bad draft and you're talking about a fired general manager and head coach, which can often mean years of wasted draft picks if the new regime changes schemes.
There is no substitute to getting it right on draft day, and now it's here. Two teams have already moved up the board to (most likely) secure franchise-changing quarterbacks, and the activity at the top isn't likely to be done yet. After we worked the phones, talking to scouts, coaches, players and general m...

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