Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht is just like the rest of us.
Yep, this time of year, even the top personnel executive for an actual NFL team is scrolling through mock drafts.
“Yeah, I’m not going to lie,” Licht said when asked if he reads the plentiful predraft projections from various media outlets. “You just kind of want to see in general where guys may be. Somebody is talking to somebody that is putting the mock draft together, so you like to think that there is something there, but you never rely on it.”
Licht probably gets far more insight from his sources throughout the league that he’s likely to garner from a random mock draft, but he particularly enjoys the media projections that connect the Bucs with a player they’re not actually targeting in real life.
“Sometimes,” Licht said when asked about seeing the same player mocked to the Bucs over and over. “When it’s the guy that we’re not targeting, I love to see it.”
What about when a mock draft does have the name the Bucs are actually going after in the first round?
“We do what we can to make sure that name isn’t on there again, you know,” Licht said with a hearty laugh.
So, keep churning out those mock drafts, folks. At least one general manager is getting a kick out of them, one way or another.
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