Late. Your team's first round draft pick will be late. Attempting a return to normalcy, I'll be watching the first round with a couple of friends. Which, on the East Coast, means an eight pm start time (that's when the draft starts, tbd on the wings and beer).
Fans of the hapless Jaguars and Jets need not concern themselves with this issue, but as a Chiefs fan, my wait will be long. How late must I put off sleep to immediately learn of a personnel decision to complain of the following month? If my calculations are correct (a rarity), 1:10 in the morning. Brutal.
While the draft is slated to start at 8:00 pm, the question is whether that's the official time Jacksonville goes on the clock or if we're subjected to the pomp and circumstance of Draft Day first. Teams are allowed 10 minutes to make their picks in round one, and universally utilize their entire time allotment (the first couple picks being the potential exception). So assuming Jacksonville submits their pick at 8:10 in the evening (Eastern), and we roll every ten minutes after, we get to learn the next rookie to win a Super Bowl (calling it) a full five hours from then.
Sorry work, but my ability to be in on time Friday, April 30 is a hard maybe.
