The draft is a passion for NFL reporter Jeff Legwold, who evaluates several hundred players each year during the months leading up to the annual selections. Legwold offers his insights here daily, with additional entries at .
Oklahoma State wide receiver Dez Bryant has grown weary of it. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow has been at the center of it almost from the time the college football season ended.
Every prospect in the NFL draft has felt it in some way over the past three months.
Criticism, and buckets of it. The days leading up to the draft is the time of vocational pessimism around the league.
Too short, too slow, too heavy, too light, too something.
Teams often spend so much time figuring out what’s wrong with a prospect they can lose sight of all the things that drew their attention in the first place.
This is the most difficult time for players. They have played all of their games, been through their workouts, finished virtually all of their interviews.
All they can do is wait and listen. And they certainly aren’t going to like all they hear.
Jeff Legwold: 303-954-2359 or jlegwold@denverpost.com
