In a time in our society where nothing makes sense, the NFL Draft continued that trend. There was a trade bonanza, "interesting" pick selections, and some fashion thrown in to further complicate matters.
Here were the wackiest moments from a wild night in Arlington.
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Nate Burleson's "Fashion Sense"
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Even before the draft could start, Burleson set the tone with his homage to the 90s group Boyz II Men. With the hightop fade, business on top, playful-youth-looking-for-fun on bottom compilation, I was half expecting him to have a cane nearby or get down on bended knee with a fake rainstorm behind him. The raindrops never came, but Burleson's outfit had teardrops flowing from fashionistas everywhere.
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Juju Smith-Schuster Reps Pizza Hut
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We understand that players sign endorsement deals and have to peddle certain products, but everyone's favorite Steeler receiver took it to another level with the Pizza Hut suit.
You heard me right. Smith-Schuster had the Pizza Hut logo printed on the inside of his sports coat and had a pepperoni pizza bowtie. While Burleson's attempt at fashion was misguided, what's not to love about a player who combines two things every person must do, dress and eat.
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Roger Goodell Tries Every Trick in the Book Not to Get Booed, Still Gets Booed
Goodell started the night by bringing out some former Cowboys. They still booed. He followed that up by bringing out a kid in a wheelchair. They still booed. That was succeeded by Goodell bringing out some local high school kids. They still booed.
They didn't just boo; it was the loudest boos in the history of the NFL Draft. One can only imagine Jerry Jones' delight, sitting in the Cowboys war room and hearing the first draft held in a stadium all join in one loud chorus of boos. It seems Goodell is the one thing all Americans can get behind — hating him, that is.
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Baker Mayfield Goes Number One
At the start of the college football season, Mayfield wasn't even a consideration for the top pick. As late as two days ago, it seemed certain Sam Darnold would go to Cleveland. The Browns and new general manager John Dorsey shocked everyone and made the flashiest swaggiest pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. Not bad for Dorsey's first draft in Cleveland.
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Mike Mayock Goes Off The Rails
It would be foolhardy to expect NFL draft analysts who have spent the last 300 days hunkered down in some sort of mold-infested dungeon, pouring over tape as if the secret to life is somewhere embedded between the pixels, to keep sane during a four-hour broadcast. It's doubtful that anyone would have expected Mayock to be the one who finally cracked. Giving us his own rendition of Rick James (no couches were damaged during the broadcast) to describe Tremaine Edmunds.
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Suprise!
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Before the draft even started, there were 7 different trades. The biggest being the Jets moving up to three. Once the festivities got started and Quenton Nelson was taken off the board with the sixth pick, the trading began. The Bills were the first to move up. Buffalo selected Josh Allen at seven.
If you're scoring at home, Buffalo benched Tyrod Taylor during the season, then traded him after the season ended. Then, the Bills traded up to get Allen whose accuracy problems could curtail his season before it even began. That's not to mention Allen's racially insensitive tweets that were discovered the night before the draft. Nor the tweets discovered after he was taken the Bills were he showed a keen interest in current Buffalo starting quarterback AJ McCarron. Needless to say, Allen might want to consider cutting out social medial all together before they find an old tweet of him hating on Bruce Smith, or worse yet, buffalo wings.
Lucky for Allen, his tweets were upstaged by the end of the NFL Draft's day one.
Thanks Schefty.
It was that kind of night.
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