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One team deserves an “A” on every draft report card: IT.

With the specter of technological glitches and hackers threatening to ruin Thursday’s NFL draft, the first round of the first virtual event concluded without any chaos.

Earlier in the week, a mock draft including all 32 teams triggered a league-wide nightmare, as the Bengals’ first pick was delayed more than two minutes due to glitches and multiple teams reported bandwidth issues, resulting in communication problems between isolated parties.

Entering the draft, sportsbooks offered prop bets, such as whether a team wouldn’t get its pick in on time and whether the draft would be hacked.

Instead, the action originally intended to take place on the Las Vegas Strip — and relocated to countless cameras set up by the NFL in the homes of coaches, players and general managers because of the COVID-19 pandemic — swiftly and smoothly moved around the nation, with teams remotely sending in their selections, trades being executed and information technology experts present in numerous homes.

Broadcasting out of his Bronxville basement, commissioner Roger Goodell announced the picks, as players sat on living room couches and coaches huddled with their children.

“This is different for us and it’s different for you,” Goodell said. “Because it has to be.”

The glitz of the highly anticipated event was the one feature which couldn’t easily be replaced, with a selection of fans unnaturally cheering on a large TV screen behind Goodell. Before Joe Burrow was taken with the first pick, the maligned commissioner awkwardly attempted to recreate the usual atmosphere, asking fans to boo him.

“[It’s] a draft tradition, and one I genuinely enjoy,” Goodell said. “Oh, come on, you guys. You can do better than that.”

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