Can you hear it? You know, the sound of jubilant football fans bouncing off the walls at all the off-season excitement, with wild stories of free agent signings and imminent draft picks?
Unlike last year, we can be pretty sure the top two will not be offensive linemen, and those in that vaunted Top 10 will have rich pickings indeed, with the promise of an instant boost to be had with the right pick.
That means the pressure is really on in Houston, St Louis and Jacksonville, the teams currently standing at numbers one to three in the Draft order, as the clear inference is 'You'd better get this right or look like complete dummies.'
It partly explains why all three of the above have steadfastly refused to give any significant hint of which may they might go come May 8. But only partly.
The other reason - many would say, the REAL reason - for so much clear fence-sitting at this stage as there just is NO consensus No. 1 pick, no sure lock to be the next Troy Aikman, Peyton Manning or Andrew Luck (or even Eli Manning, come to that).
In all the recent mock Drafts I've seen, there have been no less than five different No.1 choices and THREE as to the best quarterback of this year's crop, from Blake Bortles of the surprising Central Florida Golden Knights, to Louisville's Teddy Bridgewater and Texas A&M's mercurial Johnny Manziel.
Choice
If there is a majority choice as the best overall player available, it is South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, but few Draft experts think the Texans' greatest need is on defence, and most see them grabbing a quarterback. They just can't agree which one.
Bortles has become the current trendy choice, although Bridgewater is rated the "most NFL-ready" and Manziel could go anywhere from No.1 to the third round (with ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski being the one to insist he wouldn't take Johnny Football in the first two rounds).
If all that gives you a sense of the current wait-and-see attitude developing inside many front offices (especially those in the Top 10 frame), it is certainly how it seems from my vantage point. Of course, I have yet to take the pulse of my good friend and Draft guru Tom Shaw, whose private coaching academy here in Orlando helped secure no less than four first-round selections in 2013, and Coach Shaw usually has some canny insight into the available talent.
But I do know that the last time there was a complete feeding frenzy over the quarterback position at the top of a Draft - in 1999 - it didn't end well. That year, signal callers were picked one, two AND three but only one of the trio went on to enjoy any kind of NFL career.
The threesome in question were Tim Couch, Donovan McNabb and Akili Smith, and two of those proved to be particularly embarrassing busts for Cleveland and Cincinnati respectively. Cleveland are STILL trying to find their quarterback-of-the-future 15 YEARS later, and some would say the Bengals might be, too, after the way Andy Dalton imploded in last season's play-offs.
The message is crystal clear, however. You'd better be 100 per cent certain of your man at the top of this year's Draft as there is plenty of scope to get it wrong.
Just for once, Dallas fans might be happy they are picking at No.16.
