Yet Jason Bell and fellow BBC pundit Osi Umenyiora believe that Chase Young, 21, is actually the best player in this year's draft. The defensive end from Ohio State is expected to go second in the draft.

"I heard all the hype so watched his tape and he's a fantastic player," said Umenyiora. "He's dynamic, has good burst off the line and a good motor so he's constantly hustling, constantly trying to get to the quarterback.

"He's a big, physical, freaky athlete. Over the next 10 years I think this guy's going to be a superstar. He's the only one I can point at and say 'this is a can't-miss prospect'."

Jason Bell
Former NFL cornerback

He's had one of the best years ever in college football, in the quarterback position, and we know from looking at Patrick Mahomes and what he's done for Kansas City that if you get a franchise quarterback, especially under a rookie contract, you can do a lot. When you have a young quarterback you can use the money you save to get other assets because you have him on a rookie deal.

Burrow won a national championship so that shows you he's a winner. He was also in the best conference, the SEC has the most players that end up going to the NFL. He played well when he played against elite competition - that's what you want to see in a quarterback. It's what he does when he plays against the best teams and he always shined. He also won the Heisman Trophy.

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This took place during the 2011 lookout, when a dispute over the league's new collective bargaining agreement saw team owners stop players using team facilities and shut down league operations.

But no practice, no problem. Top pick Cam Newton hit the ground running with the Carolina Panthers and the quarterback was named the Offensive Rookie of the Year while the second pick, Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller, was named Defensive Rookie of the Year.

They were then on opposite sides at Super Bowl 50, making it the first time the top two picks from the same draft faced each other in the Super Bowl, with Denver winning.

The top 11 picks also featured the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver AJ Green and three-time Defensive Player of the Year JJ Watt while the Atlanta Falcons traded up to take their star wide receiver Julio Jones.

This year's class will face a similar challenge as, due to the lockdown, who knows when they'll get on the training field with their new team.

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The draft is notoriously an unpredictable event, but this year one thing seems clear - the first pick will be Joe Burrow.

The Cincinnati Bengals go first and want a new quarterback. And it just so happens that Burrow, 23, has had arguably the best ever season by a college QB, leading Louisiana State University to the national championship and winning the Heisman Trophy (for best college player).

Burrow is expected to be the third straight Heisman Trophy winner to be the first pick, after Murray and Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield.

Burrow could also join Cam Newton (2011) as the only quarterbacks since 1967 to win the Heisman and the national championship in the season before becoming the first draft pick.

So, I mentioned last year's draft there. What happened?

The Arizona Cardinals had the worst record of the previous season so went first and they went the way many people expected, making Kyler Murray the coveted first pick.

Murray made history in becoming the first man to be chosen in the first round of the Major League Baseball and NFL drafts - he was signed by the Oakland Athletics baseball team before deciding to instead commit his future to the NFL.

The draft broadcast will be hosted by a small team at the ESPN studios in Connecticut, with draft prospects, commentators and team officials joining in remotely.

More than 11 million fans watched last year's draft, while around 500,000 attended the event in Nashville. Obviously none will be there this year so you can bet most of them will be tuning in.

Since the sporting landscape has been pretty sparse the last few weeks, you'd expect plenty more to be watching tonight to get some sort of sporting fix.

It may not be a live game, and you may not be a huge American football fan, but how good does it feel to be a part of a live event again?

With team facilities shut, officials are also at home, communicating remotely via FaceTime, Skype, Zoom - whatever they've got that works.

Some teams have expressed concerns over hacking, while officials have frantically been upgrading their WiFi service. The winners in this year's draft could well be the team with the best IT staff - check out the home set-up the San Francisco 49ers general manager now has.

So, this year there'll be no war rooms, where team officials discuss their strategy throughout the draft and are normally seen in heated debate or pounding away at phones to discuss a trade with other teams.

Just look at the Dallas Cowboys war room from 2018. No chance of practicing social distancing in there.

There'll also be no green room, where the top prospects are invited to wait backstage to be picked.

However, 58 of them have agreed to have cameras in their own home to create a virtual green room, so we'll get to follow their reactions and see what it means to them and their family if/when they're picked.

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It's just the first round on day one, and the first 32 picks, and it all gets under way at 01:00 BST.

In the meantime, we're going to have a look at what this draft will look like and how it might play out. Plus we'll look back at some memorable draft moments and vintage draft classes.

Make yourself comfortable. This should be fun.

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I mean, can you imagine how cool it would've been? The stage would've been right there. Rumour has it, when the players got picked they'd be taken to the stage by boat.

But hey, some things are more important. And Vegas can wait. The NFL have promised to take a future draft to Sin City.

Until then, in the spirit of life in lockdown, let's embrace this 'new normal' and see what the 2020 draft has in store.

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Finally, some actual sport. Kind of.

While the coronavirus pandemic has put a halt to sport events around the planet, the NFL draft is going ahead - albeit in a vastly different format.

Beginning tonight, the 32 NFL teams will spend the next three days selecting players from the best of last season's college prospects.

It will be a life-changing moment for the 255 who get picked, and it's become the second biggest event in the NFL calendar.

To coincide with the Raiders relocating to Las Vegas this off-season, it was supposed to held on a stage built over water at the Bellagio hotel fountains.

Instead, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will be announcing each pick in his basement.