I've always been fascinated by the NFL Draft, player personnel and talent evaluation. While attending USC and working for the school's television station, I was tasked with a story to predict the draft positions for USC's prospects prior to the 2000 NFL draft. I had such a good time putting the story together that I decided to put a mock draft together for the entire 1st Round. I've put together a mock draft every year since. In 2014, friends and family finally talked me into building a website for my analysis and readyforthedraft.com was born.