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@ypcreg
As @MikeGriffith and multiple people say on this blog, it has nothing to do with when you enter college. The reason: the NFL doesn't require you to go to college to be eligible for the draft. It doesn't even require that you graduate high school.
Please, go back and read up on the federal antitrust lawsuit over the draft that former Ohio State and Denver Broncos RB Maurice Clarett filed against the NFL in 2003 (Clarett lost). There is wiggle room to cover edge cases and people who try to game the system, but the main rule is that you are eligible for the draft 3 years after you "should" have graduated high school based on the year that you entered high school. So let's say your high school has grades 9-12 and you entered 9th grade in 2020. According to the NFL, you should have graduated in 2024, meaning that you will be eligible to enter the 2027 draft. This is the same whenever you enter college, or even if you never enter college at all.
Now you are right about how much college eligibility Mitchell has remaining. The clock on that didn't start until he entered UGA in 2021. But college eligiblity and NFL draft eligibility are two totally different things governed by different rules.