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What's up, everybody? This is the season with Peter Schrager. I'm Peter Schrager, joined here by my trusted producer, Aaron Wong Kaufman. We are now less than 10 days away from the NFL draft,

and I have not slept over the last 24 hours because I've

been working on it for weeks, but I take a lot of pride and I put out my first mock draft. And that

sounds so trivial in the grand scheme of things. And you're just dropping into this podcast.

Like, who is this person who thinks that it's such a dramatic thing that he's putting out his first

mock draft, the first of two? Let me explain. The reason I take so much pride in it is that year

after year after year, I have great humility usually. I do not have great humility when it comes to

this. I have the most accurate mock draft on the internet.

And that's because I don't do the mock draft in terms of who I would take or what I think a team should do. I do it with what I'm hearing from around the league, from GMs, from coaches,

and in many cases, from those teams specifically. If you watch Good Morning Football, I listen to this

podcast, you know, I've got relationships around the league. I oftentimes will utilize those relationships and getting the best

NFL news available, not necessarily transactional. This guy signed for this much money and breaking

news here, but more, okay, Jalen Hertz signs a deal, here's how it got done, here's why I got done,

let me speak to my sources in Philadelphia and on the player's side and try to come to that

conclusion and get the best information possible.

When it comes to the draft, though, it says, well, you're getting smoke screens.

No one's telling me who they're taking up top.

What I'm doing is I'm talking to all the teams I possibly can.

And I'm trying to infer the most information that I can out of that. I'm trying to make it work.

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