It was less than three months ago that Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs defeated Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII.
Seems like only yesterday, doesn’t it?
OK, it doesn’t. Every day since NFL season ended seems like an eternity, and it’s going to get only worse over the next three months or so before training camps open.
Luckily we get a reprieve this week:
The 2023 NFL draft is April 27-29 in Kansas City, Mo. Here’s our coverage.
The three-day event will be over before you know it, so you better be prepared. Here’s everything you need to know:
The first round is Thursday, starting at 5 p.m. PDT. Rounds 2 and 3 start Friday at 4 p.m. and the final four rounds start bright and early Saturday at 9 a.m.
The draft will be broadcast live on ESPN, ESPN Deportes, ABC and the NFL Network. The event can be streamed on any platform that carries those networks (such as YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV and Fubo) or on the networks’ apps or websites.
The 2023 NFL draft appears top heavy with quarterbacks. Sam Farmer makes his predictions and picks for Nos. 1-31 in his final mock draft. Round 1 is Thursday.
Downtown Kansas City, Mo.
The Carolina Panthers, who acquired the pick via a trade with the Chicago Bears. In exchange, the Bears received Carolina’s No. 9 and No. 61 overall picks in 2023, a first-round pick in 2024, a second-round pick in 2025 and wide receiver D.J. Moore.
That’s easy: After giving up a haul like that, the Panthers will choose anyone they want. Maybe it will be Alabama’s Bryce Young. Or perhaps Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud. Kentucky’s Will Levis and Florida’s Anthony Richardson are in the conversation as well.
Two of the top NFL draft 2023 quarterback prospects, Bryce Young and C.J. Stroud, relive moments when they met on Southern California football fields as kids.
For much more insight on what player might go where in the first round, check out Sam Farmer’s final 2023 mock draft here and his annual beat reporters mock draft here.
The Chargers have the 21st overall pick Thursday. On Friday, they have the 54th (second round) and 85th picks (third round), followed by one pick per round on Saturday at Nos. 125, 156, 200 and 239.
Keenan Allen, Joey Bosa and Justin Herbert are Tom Telesco’s home runs when examining the general manager’s 10 NFL drafts with the Chargers.
The Rams don’t have a first-round pick again this year — that belongs to the Detroit Lions as part of the trade that brought Matthew Stafford to L.A. before the 2022 season.
Rams general manager Les Snead has not had a first-round draft picks since 2016, but his moves did garner L.A. two trips to the Super Bowl and a championship.
But they have plenty of picks on the final two days of the draft — one in the second round (No. 36), two in the third (69, 77), three in the fifth (167, 171, 177), three in the sixth (182, 189, 191) and two in the seventh (223, 234).
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