We made it. Finally.

The NFL draft is tonight, and we’ll do it live! That’s what Bill O’Reilly would say to the front office executives complaining about having to do this thing virtually during a global pandemic. The draft is happening whether people like it or not, because we need sports and we need normalcy.

As you’ve seen, some of these at-home rigs are pretty fantastic. Others, not so much. We’ve taken the available images and video clips and broken these draft setups into the following four tiers:

  • excellent
  • pretty good
  • ehhhhh
  • bad

Criteria is rather arbitrary, but we decided to look at the number of screens and quality of equipment, the boujee factor of various rooms and pieces of furniture, plus overall cleanliness and desktop organization. Feng shui was also considered, i.e., does the energy of the room and placement of various objects make you feel harmony with the surrounding environment?

Our staff picks:

Excellent

 

Howie Roseman (Eagles)

Incredibly smooth. Love the room, love the eight screens, and everything just looks very neat and very organized. The fireplace adds a boujee-ness to the setup and the lighting meshes well with the natural sun coming into the room. If it looks this good during the day, it should look superb at night.

John Lynch (49ers)

Big fan of the symmetry here. He’s got everything nicely stacked, which makes anybody with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder feel comfortable and relaxed. Only thing is that he has to move that keyboard slightly to the left, then you’ve got the perfectly balanced setup.

John Elway (Broncos)

Seven screens, very tidy and very organized in the Elway household. I like this ‘central desk’ type of setup where you then have a few monitors placed on other tables six to eight feet away. Hopefully this helps the Broncos find a franchise quarterback.

Brandon Beane (Bills)

Killer arrangement here.  A little 360 action with the center table, threes screens to his right, screens behind him, and then a massive draft board right in front.

Perfect setup. You could do mission control for a space rocket with this rig.

Pretty good

 

Rick Spielman (Vikings)

It looks slightly cramped in there, and something about the table skirts feels tacky to me, but I like how they stacked the six screens to make one big monitor on the left. If you count those screens individually, there are 12 total in this room.

David Caldwell (Jaguars)

He converted his home movie theater into a draft setup, adding a table in the middle and that plasma TV on the left, then just pulled down his projector screen.

Nicely done.

Sean Payton (Saints)

Most of the setups you see online are general manager war rooms, while the coaches are working with understandably smaller setups. However, Payton’s rig is bigger and more involved than some of the front office setups, and I like how he’s working off a symmetrical stack similar to John Lynch.

Ehhhh

 

Tom Telesco (Chargers)

Is he using that TV in the background? Or is it just going to be the table with the various smaller screens?

Something feels “off” about this setup, like the desk is not big enough for the room. The three laptops on the table feels a little strange as well, since the Chargers IT guys could have just rigged some bigger monitors to work with. Might be a lot of squinting tonight.

Eric DeCosta (Ravens)

Looks pretty tight in there. Slightly claustrophobic in DeCosta’s place, and not a lot of bells and whistles.

Ryan Pace (Chicago Bears)

It’s a nice setup but that room is just not big enough. The quad stacked monitors look sweet but everything feels a little clustered and cluttered.

Jon Robinson (Titans)

I think it’s a good setup, and the curved screens are really nice, but where did he get that furniture? The couch and chair look comfortable, but they look like they were made in the 1970s and belong in your grandfather’s cabin on Lake Wallenpaupack. The wood table looks like it was hand built by your great uncle.

Bad

 

Dave Gettleman

Of course. He’s got one computer, a massive binder full of women and then stacks of paper on the left, ala Ray Didinger.

Won’t matter though if he turns in a solid draft for the New York Football Giants.

Andy Reid

Big Red can do whatever he wants, since he’s finally a Super Bowl champion. Also appreciate the fact that he has a bottle of Purell down there, and is following proper COVID-19 precautions.

The draft is today, finally. Let’s goooooooooooooooooooo.