Draft Day, Draft Day, Gonna Get Down On Draft Day: Your Monday Night Open Thread

With apologies to Rebecca Black. (has anyone ever apologized to Ms. Black? Well, it’s about time someone did)

The DFO Premier League is up to bat this evening at 8pm EST, not sure when the Shempionship league does its thing. (someone in the comments help me) Yesterday afternoon MATH HARD! had its auction adventure. How did I do after Hippo texted me with 4 minutes to go before the start? My #1 WR is…Mike Evans! My very best result will be a blowout first-round playoff loss. Book it!

That footballing league that brought us together had some goings-on recently. Let’s take a looky-look.

Worst-Kept Secret Finally Revealed:

Aaron Donald is getting recycled by the Rams. Word is he’s getting 600k per game to play and incentives (up to and including a SB win) could gross him 30 mil. My guess is he slowly rounds into shape, getting 15-25 plays per tilt for a while and then ends up being his old game-wrecking self the final quarter of the season and into the playoffs.

“The Turk” Has Arrived:

That was the nickname given to ‘Cutdown Day” by a middling Cowboys WR that ended up being a novelist and scriptwriter. (can’t recall his name. Gentry?) He wrote a story for Sports Illustrated that details various reactions that players had when they were asked to bring their playbooks into their position coaches’ office.

Notable players (ie: players that I recognize that have started games over the years) that got the axe yesterday: Mecole Hardman, Bailey Zappe, Josh Johnson, Ulysses Bentley IV, (what a name!) Nick Mullens, Will Levis, (he said, “there aren’t 28 QB’s better than me” after getting cut) Jaleel McLaughlin, Phillip Dorsett, M. Valdez-Scantling, Braxton Berrios, Van Jefferson, Scotty Miller, Johnny Hekker, Aziz Ojulari, Jake Browning and Eli Apple (his mommy is going to be so pissed)

The More The Merrier?:

Four(!) teams kept four QB’s on their starting day roster for some gottdamn reason. WTH? Cleveland kept three and threw Gabriel on IR with a nebulous ‘back injury’. You would think that this circumstance sorts itself out after an injury to another player but apparently some teams are just that stupid. They would be the Eagles, Falcons, Vikings and Steelers.

Good luck to everyone tonight while choosing your players.

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