I've thought about this a lot over the years. There have been some years when I've really tried to familiarize myself with the various players, but I don't really watch college ball, especially since moving to Europe.
For me, that's what it's about. Trying to learn the names and figure out who's good and who's not good.
But the pundits part has never made sense to me. Is the game to pick the best players or to pick who the teams are going to pick? And if the game is to pick who the teams are going to pick, how are THEY wrong when you don't get it right? People talk about this pick or that pick as a reach, but unless you know how all 32 teams have that player graded, you can't know what a reach is. So basically, it's all BS. It's entertainment where some people take themselves way too seriously.
For a fan, if you've got guys you like, that's great. You want to be able to compare "your guys" to the guys that the teams drafted. But you don't really get to judge how you did until their careers are winding down. For pundits having their guys and then talking crap about the front offices of the various teams, that's just kinda silly.
Unless that FO pays a guy over 130 million to play QB and then drafts a guy 8th overall...