Welcome to NFL Draft week 2020. It will be like any draft we’ve seen in recent years with no sold out venue and no bro-hugs between the latest draft picks and the NFL commissioner. Instead it’ll all be done online, an exhibit in what much of the working world will be headed towards after “stay home” orders are lifted.
Notre Dame has 12 players hoping to have their name called between Thursday and Saturday with the likelihood of probably six of them being very good. One of those is tight end Cole Kmet and he’ll probably be the first former Fighting Irish player to hear his name called, whether it be late Thursday night or sometime during rounds two or three on Friday.
Kmet did a video call with Mike Berman of NBC 5 Chicago over the weekend and detailed what the days ahead of this nontraditional draft. What do you do at mom and dad’s house right now? Where and how will he watch the draft? And is he especially hoping to play for his hometown Chicago Bears? find out for yourself.
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Kmet is projected everywhere from late in the first round to not having his name called until the third per some experts. Where do you think Kmet ends up and is there somewhere you’re especially hoping to see him go?
I’d love to see him go to his hometown Bears but I’d be lying if I said I had any faith in that organization to give him the best chance to succeed in the pros.