Welcome into Lounge, presented by Draft Kings. I'm Ryan Mink, here with Garrett Downing, and it is mock draft season, Garrett. We're about a month away from the first round of the 2025 draft. So we're going to take the deep dive into some of the experts mock drafts that have recently come out and give you our

take on those. Do we think they're on the right track? We're the experts here, obviously, in picking

this. So, you know, what do we think of those? Do we think that, do we agree with them? Do we hate them?

What do you know, break it all down?

I think just to kind of set the table for this conversation, I do think that around this

time of the year, you start to see a little bit of consensus and coming out of going into the

combine, it's all over the place. You have these mocks that are vastly different. Then the combine

happens and everybody's talking and everyone's in the same places and they're having these

conversations. You also get to see everybody competing on a level playing field. And then so there starts to come up with some

consensus. And they get to talk to front offices and figure out, you get a little tidbits of

information here and there, some of the insiders too. But the one thing that I will say coming out

of the combine and happens every year is after

that week, you have 50 guys who everyone says are first-round picks because you have players

who blow up the combine, and everybody has these guys who are rising up the board.

And so I think that there's like a little bit of a boomerang effect that takes place in the

mock drafts immediately after the combine,

certain guys start flying up.

And then when you see the mocks that come out at this time between now and the draft,

some guys who flew up after the combine and then start to work their way back down,

and then you maybe have a more realistic picture of what draft night is going to look like.

Of course, there's so much uncertainty,

but that's like generally how I see the mock draft process unfolding.

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