we are back. Another season of the first draft podcast is officially underway. It is your

one-stop shop for everything you need to know about the 2022 NFL draft and the two stars

of this show are the names that are the stars of ESPN's NFL draft coverage coverage.

And Godfather of the NFL draft Mel Kuiper Jr. And of course, his long-time running made

the great Todd McShay Mel. I'll start with you. How are you, my friend? Another season

is underway.

Yeah, I'll tell you, the end of the college football season NFL playoff Super Wild Card

weekend begins with some great matchups and the NFL draft is going to be all the talk.

So what kind of cover wrap up the game last night, which was exciting, a little weird,

a little crazy, but certainly memorable and then get to some projections. I actually have

mocked draft 1.0, which is probably on a third mock by now, but I get mocked 1.0. Next

way, once the junior is declared, let's wait until we know who's in the draft before

we do a mock. I think that makes sense, but you know, McShay doesn't always make sense,

so we will go with that.

That's okay.

That's okay.

Good start to the podcast, Kuiper. Good start, man. I love it. I'm already taking hits

and I haven't even said hello yet. So everyone listening, hello, this is Todd McShay

responding to Kuiper, my good friend. I'm fired up, man. I know this isn't a great quarterback

draft and everyone's kind of down on that, but it's a really strong draft class. We've

got Senior Bowl coming up in just a couple of weeks, obviously the combine. And before

both of those things, the underclassmen declaring date of January 17th, where per usual, you

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