Being Mel Kiper Jr. (Re-Spin)

ESPN Daily

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The NFL Draft is an American institution. And for the past four decades, the unmistakable voice of that institution has been Mel Kiper Jr. His “Big Board” and mock drafts have become a rite of spring, a yearly ritual that signals your team will soon be “on the clock.” It is a remarkable climb for someone who used a typewriter to compile draft reports as a teenager, before the NFL Draft was even televised. Mel joins the show to explain how he helped turn his personal obsession into a national obsession…and made us all draft nerds in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, it's Pablo and you may have heard that NFL draft season is upon us.
0:05.8	You may have heard the voice, the unmistakable voice of one male Kuiper Jr. on our air.
0:12.4	And before the draft comes at the end of the month, I wanted to introduce you to the
0:17.5	man who is synonymous with this event, one of the truly most gloriously weird individuals.
0:24.0	I have ever met a pioneer who built an entire media business unto himself.
0:31.1	So enjoy this story.
0:32.7	It's a revisiting of our profile of Mel Kuiper Jr. and what he saw in the draft that no
0:38.8	one else did.
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