The 2023-2024 NFL season has now ended. Super Bowl LVIII is in the books. The Kansas City Chiefs successfully defended their Super Bowl LVII championship, beating the San Francisco 49ers in overtime. We now have the NFL scouting combine and then free agency, but those are ongoing events without a pre-scheduled start time when everyone holds his or her breath and waits for a momentous occasion when lives and franchises will be changed. The NFL draft is the next really big NFL moment, on Thursday, April 25, at 8 p.m. Eastern time. Either the Chicago Bears will pick Caleb Williams at No. 1, or they will trade him. It’s the next “all eyes on the NFL” moment in the sport which dominates American culture.
NFL draft storylines? Yes, please. Let’s walk through a few of them: