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If you're an NFL draft viewer, three short phrases likely dominate your living room during Round 1 every year.
1. "That's a steal!"
2. "That's a reach!"
3. "That's a surprise!"
Steals, of course, are players who should have come off the board earlier than they did. Reaches are players in the opposite circumstance. Surprises are, well, surprises—sometimes positive, sometimes negative, always unexpected by definition.
With that in mind, let's review the opening round of the 2021 draft through those lenses.
Steal: Atlanta Falcons Select Florida TE Kyle Pitts Fourth Overall
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A tight end is drafted in the top four for the first time in modern NFL history, and we're calling it a steal? Yup, because Kyle Pitts is so much more than a typical tight end. He's arguably the top non-quarterback in this class.