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NFL draft 2021 winners, head-scratching picks, reaches from Round 1: Mel Kiper’s first-round recap – ESPN Australia
The Patriots stood pat for their quarterback, while the Bears mortgaged their future. Here are the picks Kiper liked and didn’t like.
Round 1 of the 2021 NFL draft featured five quarterbacks in the top 15 picks, six Alabama prospects in the top 24 and some surprises throughout, including the Bears making a dramatic trade up for a signal-caller and the Patriots being decidedly less dramatic, standing pat and still getting a quarterback.
I said coming into Thursday night that this was a mysterious draft class, and that there would likely be many trades — and some head-scratching picks. I was 50% correct, as we didn’t see that many…
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