Anything possible when NFL Draft 2024 kicks off

The NFL should hire an auctioneer to take commissioner Roger Goodell’s place on stage this year as the one who announces every first-round draft pick.The next item up for bid is this shiny No.3 pick.

Do I hear three second-rounders? I’ve got three seconds.Do I hear multiple first-rounders? I’ve got multiple firsts.

Do I hear an unprecedented blockbuster package? Multiple firsts going once … going twice … sold to the general manager in the back desperate for a quarterback!One of the most unpredictable NFL drafts of all time is set to begin at 8 p.m.Thursday in Detroit.

After the Bears make what has been known for months official and select quarterback Caleb Williams with the No.1 overall pick, the much-anticipated chaos will ramp up with the Commanders expected to decide between quarterbacks Jayden Daniels and Drake Maye.From that point on, anything is possible, including topping the record, set in 2022, of nine trades made during the first round.Six quarterbacks could be taken in the first round for the first time since 1983, including four within the first four or five picks — neither of which has previously happened.

All against the backdrop of the offseason implosion of the 2021 draft class, which has had four of its five first-round quarterbacks — all top-15 picks — traded into backup jobs.“The 2024 draft really has a chance to be a special [quarterback] class,” SiriusXM NFL analyst and former Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik said.“Not only the top three, four guys, but I think there’s other quarterbacks in this class that are going to certainly be guys [who] have a chance.

There’s a good quality and quantity in this class.”Where Daniels, Maye and fellow quarterbacks J.J.McCarthy, Michael Penix Jr.

and Bo Nix end up is anyone’s guess because of the flurry of trade activity expected.“Obviously it’s still a pretty risky thing,” Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah said of drafting a quarterback.“Just becaus...