By Wil Leitner
Listen to Fox Sports 1 college football analyst
Joel Klatt join The Herd to discuss his biggest takeaways from Thursday night’s first round of the 2021 NFL Draft.
Probably the biggest surprise of the first round was the San Francisco 49ers passing on
Mac Jones and taking North Dakota State’s
Trey Lance with the no. 3 pick. Many experts had the NFL-ready Jones pegged as a likely dance partner with head coach
Kyle Shanahan, but Lance looks to be the more talented, higher ceiling prospect, who can sit behind incumbent
Jimmy Garoppolo for his first season.
Other surprises included the Eagles leapfrogging the rival-Giants to take