The NFL Draft is one of the highlights of the NFL year.
This year's edition of the Draft is being held in a plaza outside Kansas City's historic Union Station. The 2023 Draft represents an opportunity for last season's worst-performing teams to land a top college talent.
In a recent NFL mock draft, the Chicago Bears were predicted to land Alabama linebacker Will Anderson, while the Houston Texans are tipped to bring in his team-mate Bryce Young, the Crimson Tide quarterback. However, with the Bears trading the number one overall pick in the draft to the Carolina Panthers late on Friday, Frank Reich's side now have the opportunity to land a franchise quarterback.
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The Arizona Cardinals, Indianapolis Colts and Seattle Seahawks make up the five teams at the top of the draft with a chance to bring in a franchise player. Due to kick off on Thursday, April 27 over three days, 259 selections will be made over seven rounds in total.
It is being broadcast on ESPN, ABC, the NFL Network, ESPN Radio and on ESPN Deportes for Spanish-language viewers. The action is due to begin at 8pm Eastern Standard Time, which is 7pm local time in Kansas City.
With the Panthers expected to draft a starting quarterback, the club's general manager Scott Fitterer dropped a hint that he would move for a top college prospect at the scouting combine earlier this month. "You go get the guy that you want, you know," he said.
"If you have a conviction on a guy, you go get him, it's pretty simple that way. If you don't know and you're going to give all these resources to go up and get it, you're hurting your team in the long run.
"You better be right, you better have conviction if you do move up - when you do that, you're all in."
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