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Final wrap-up after the 2019 NFL Draft

Rajan Nanavati
11 min readApr 30, 2019

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And now, NFL fans, we enter the abyss: almost two full months of virtually nothing noteworthy taking place in the ream of professional football.

As the proverbial dust settles on the 2019 NFL Draft, and as the media types are quickly assigning (ultimately pointless) draft grades that are sure to get fans all hot and bothered (for no good reasons), allow me to empty my virtual notebook of final thoughts, musings, and reflections in the twilight of this most recent National Football League Player Selection Meeting.

David Gettleman isn’t fooling anyone, except maybe himself

The “FML” look on the face of Pat Shurmur is so obvious.

I touched on it before, but it bears repeating: the New York Giants’ selection of Daniel Jones with the 6th overall pick might’ve overshadowed the Arizona Cardinals taking Kyler Murray (and trading away Josh Rosen) as the biggest headline of this draft, thanks to the pick being so groin-grabbingly hilarious in general.

Even if David Gettleman wants to convince us that his affection for Daniel Jones wasn’t cemented by a three-quarters-of-the-way-to-brain-dead rationale long before the NFL Draft took place, everyone knows that he’s

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Rajan Nanavati
Rajan Nanavati

Written by Rajan Nanavati

Father. Husband. Indian American. Sports Junkie. Marketing Dude. Freelance Writer. Productivity Zealot. Enthusiastic Gourmand.

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