We are back. Welcome into First Draft. I actually saw the sun for the first time in a while here in Connecticut, which can mean only one thing. The NFL draft is just around the corner. And that also means that Mel's mock 4.0 is just hours away as we say hello and welcome in to our guy Mel Kuiper Jr and Mel how

close are you to finalizing what will be your final mock before the 2024 NFL draft?

Field, I was tweaking it this morning, I'm tweaking it throughout the day, I'll be tweaking it some

tomorrow and it'll be up obviously Wednesday we're talking about

Mock 4.0 which also includes round two. So first and second round mock coming

out Wednesday feel we got a lot of stuff coming up this week and next week

obviously leading up to the draft but

finalizing tweaking things and guess what field I got a shocker for our viewers

listeners and for you field guess what this is taking a place of 5.0 so this is my final mock of the year right I'm gonna do

a lot of news and notes I'm to project teams that have fun morning of the draft I'm

projecting trades in mock 4.0 both in the first round and in the second round.

So I got some second round trades as well

to really throw in there, and that's going to talk about maybe

some predictions and some analysis that could be going on there. So a lot of fun stuff in Mach 4. some is in day of day one mock draft duties to me.

So now I'm the guy that has to put out a mock draft

the morning of round one, and if it's absolutely terrible,

there's no one to blame but myself.

Let's dive into today's show, Emmel, you you kind suggested it, but we are just about three weeks away from the 2024 NFL draft and we're going to give you guys three bold predictions.

And Mel, as you and I were discussing our ideas and we were sort of debating how to use this topic,

I wanted to make clear, these are bold predictions.

If these don't come true, there's a reason why we're calling them bold predictions.

If they were easy predictions, we tell you

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