In his final mock of the 2021 NFL Draft s first round, Daniel Jeremiah projects the Broncos and Patriots will trade up to begin a new era at quarterback.
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The Lions want to trade back. Badly. Our first massive trade of the evening comes here. I get the feeling the Eagles want one of the top two CBs, and with whispers out there that their NFC East rivals are also in that market, Howie Roseman continues to wheel and deal. In this case, the Philly GM has to give up just the 12th overall pick and a pair of third-rounders to move up five spots and get Surtain. Pick
NFL Draft starts tonight
GM Brian Gutekunst
The 2021 NFL Draft kicks off in Cleveland on Thursday night (7 p.m. CT) with the opening round. Rounds 2 & 3 are Friday night with rounds 4-7 wrapping up on Saturday.
Armed with 10 selections for the third straight year, the Packers will have some opportunities to do some moving around if they wish.
General Manager Brian Gutekunst enters his 23rd draft with the Packers and fourth as GM. Last year, Gutekunst selected nine players overall with four players seeing action in10-plus regular-season games as rookies (G Jon Runyan, 16 / S Vernon Scott, 15 / RB A.J. Dillon, 11 / LB Kamal Martin, 10).
Updated on April 29, 2021 at 1:32 pm
The annual prospect-a-palooza known as the NFL Draft starts on Thursday night (5:00 San Diego time). This year we ll likely see something we haven t seen since 1983 with five quarterbacks going in the first round.
Y all probably know three of them: John Elway, Jim Kelly and Dan Marino. But the other two were Tony Eason and Ken O Brien.
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So, history says there will be at least one superstar and at least one bust. The question is which will be which? Let s take a shot at figuring that out with the 2021 NBC 7 NFL Mock Draft. Commissioner Goodell has the pick and is heading to the podium .
The Packers have resisted going wide out first, instead consistently hitting home runs in the second and third rounds under both Ted Thompson and Gutekunst. Consider the run of production they received from Greg Jennings, James Jones, Jordy Nelson, Randall Cobb and Davante Adams. The numbers are massive from this fab five, combining for 2351 receptions for 31,622 yards and 274 touchdowns.
Why this year could be different? Every single wide out on the Pack’s current roster from Adams, to Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Equanimeous St. Brown, Allen Lazard, Devin Funchess and even Malik Taylor will have contracts that expire in 11 months.
Earlier this week, Gutekunst was asked if he looks back on the franchise draft history to try and determine how and why they hit on day 2 receivers for instance, or miss on other positions and rounds. He absolutely does a self scout, going back as long as 15 years ago. I did the same thing and came up with some trends the Packers may