Do you feel a draft in here?

It seems appropriate to have an event named after an unwanted breeze take place in the Windy City... Chicago hosts the first round of the NFL draft tonight, rounds 2 and 3 tomorrow, and 4 through 7 Saturday. That's not because it takes them that long to choose between names they've looked at, researched, and figuratively dissected over the last few months... it's all for the media. "We" have to have time to dissect their dissections, it seems, because of course we do.

Here's an idea, NFL. You've got computers, right? Do this instead:

1) Each team submits a list of its top (7 times 32) 224 player choices to the NFL no later than the day before the announcement of the draft. 

2) All trades must be completed by, say, eight hours before the announcement.

3) The NFL simply goes through the 32 lists and as each team's draft choice comes up, they name the highest player remaining on that team's list that hasn't already been drafted.

4) Repeat 223 times. Done. No more "Tennessee is on the clock", no more "We're just looking for the best athlete available" interviews, no more stretching this God-forsaken event out to three bleep'n days!

So, Tampa's first? The first name on the list (probably Florida St's Jamies Winston) is drafted to the Bucs, crossed off all 32 lists, and then it's Tennessee's turn. If Winston wasn't first on their list, they get whomever was first; if he was, then they get whomever they had second on their list. (Marcus Mariota, I'll bet.) Mariota's crossed off everyone's lists, and we move to the number 3 team. And so on and so forth. 

A computer could do this in about five seconds, but if you need 32 NFL execs to do it instead, fine by me. It could still be over in four hours - a minute per choice, plus potty breaks!

Honestly, I don't get why the draft is such a big deal, but there's NO conceivable reason the process itself should be a star. Give us the entire list at once (or at least, the four hour version of "at once", although I'd still wait until the process was done before releasing it) and let the media hounds spend the next three months parsing it to a pulp. Don't make us sit through the parsing as it slowly emerges...