Ben Solak May 6, 2026, 06:10 AM ET Close Ben Solak joined ESPN in 2024 as a national NFL analyst. He previously covered the NFL at The Ringer, Bleeding Green Nation and The Draft Network. We all watch the NFL draft with bated breath. Prospects with their phones perched on the table, as their dreams are one call away from realization. Fans with group chats firing and highlight reels loaded, ready to fall for the next late-round star who will catapult their favorite team to the Super Bowl. And then there are the NFL veterans who are on tenuous footing, wondering whether their teams will draft their replacements or give them another year. Rookies get new jobs coming out of the draft, while many established players can in turn lose them. The NFL is an unforgiving machine that churns talent relentlessly.…