Every day brings us closer, closer to the moment when the next generation of NFL stars learn their destiny.

And franchises try to lay the foundation for the next dynasty.

Whitney first pick.

This is first draft.

Now alongside NFL Draft Insiders Melkiper Jr. and Todd McShea,

here's Chris Brown.

Welcome to First Draft.

I'm Chris Prow with Todd McShay,

the Milk Hyper Junior.

We have fresh meat to work with here now. I'll let you jump in on all of Todd's clear miscues later

But we have a fresh mock draft here Todd's first of the year always fun always open to a month of scrutiny before Mel gets one that's really really nice of you Todd

But the first one came out yesterday

Todd you did a lot of TV TV but we get to go a little we get to go a little

deeper here today and I just want to start off the top with the surprise if you

would have done this in August which is which is the rise of Joe Burrow and I guess the thing that stands out to me is the tapes all there for this year and if you focus on this year you see a you see a number one pick in that

twenty NFL draft

i guess i was curious as you were putting this together and as you're doing your

ratings

in talking to people around the league who've watched this guy over two years,

how they're able to kind of compartmentalize and forget what they saw last year

and instead focus on what this guy did this year and working with Joe Brady and where that

metamorphosis happened and how this guy has risen this fire you know how would how

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