Drafts, like meals, have to be chewed on first

By STEVE KING

If you spend enough in the newspaper and media business, you’ll end up doing just about everything there is to do.

For instance, for a while – a very short while years and years go – I did restaurant reviews. I was qualified – in a way at least – because I loved to eat. I still do, but, thankfully, just not as much.

It was pretty simple in that I would eat a meal and then review it. Really, how else could you do it?

I would have laughed if my boss at the time had told me, “Place your order, then write the review before you eat the meal.” That would have made no sense.

But that’s exactly what those covering pro football are asked to do every year at about this time when, just minutes after the draft has ended, they are asked to review it and give it a grade.

Huh?

How can you do that? The players selected haven’t even been to the team facility yet.

For that very reason – it is impossible — I have balked at doing this through the years, but I always had bosses who insisted on it. You’ve got to keep your bosses happy, so I did it.

But I’m own boss now – which makes Bosses Day pretty special – and as such, I can do what I want. And I don’t want to grade the Browns’ draft, so I won’t.

Here’s what I will say about it in that it made sense in that they drafted highly-productive and talented players at areas of need. So from that standpoint, I will give them an A-plus for effort, for you can’t do any better than that.

Indeed, so far, so good.

But that’s it.

If you want great analysis from something that hasn’t happened yet, and can’t be determined for quite some time, then you’ll have to go somewhere else.

Sorry, but I’m not in the business of making stuff up.