NFL Draft 2021: Top Remaining Prospects, List of Second-Round Picks and How to Watch on TV
On 4/30/21 at 8:35 AM EDT
Having selected Trevor Lawrence with the first overall pick of the NFL Draft on Thursday night, the Jacksonville Jaguars are again set to be the first team on the clock when the second round gets underway on Friday.
Behind Lawrence, the New York Jets also followed the script and picked BYU quarterback Zach Wilson, while the San Francisco 49ers selected Trey Lance out of North Dakota State.
Alabama signal caller Mac Jones, who had emerged as the presumptive No. 3 pick over the last two months, fell all the way down to No.15 and was selected by the New England Patriots.
Rabbi Jonathan Maltzman has been an unabashed Philadelphia 76ers fan for more than four decades, ever since his father, Rabbi Marshall Maltzman, brought home the team’s coach and one of the greatest Jewish basketball players of all time Dolph Schayes, for a Passover Seder. At the time, Sixers-Celtics was one of the fiercest rivalries in sports. Philadelphians loved Wilt Chamberlain and loathed Bill Russell, but saved plenty of venom for Celtics coach Red Auerbach. “I hated his cockiness,” Maltzman recently recalled. “And he broke our hearts every year.”
ESPN’s Suzy Kolber has been a football fan since way back. At age 8 she dressed up in a helmet and shoulder pads for Halloween. Earlier this month, her love for the gridiron earned her the Sports Broadcaster of the Year Award from the Maxwell Football Club. It was the first time in its 69-year history that the suburban Philadelphia
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Thursday’s coverage of the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft drew solid numbers across ESPN/ABC/NFL Network. It dropped off from last year’s record of 15.26 million average English-language viewers, but as per Paulsen at Sports Media Watch, the draft drew its second-highest viewership numbers ever across networks this year:
The opening round of the NFL Draft averaged 12.52 million viewers across ESPN, ABC and NFL Network Thursday night, the second-largest audience in the history of the event. Viewership declined 18% from last year’s all-time record of 15.26 million, set during a period in which all other competing sporting events were on hiatus.
What Mac Jones said after New England Patriots selected the Alabama quarterback in the first round of the NFL Draft
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
Posted Apr 30, 2021
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Alabama quarterback Mac Jones (10)
Photo by Kent Gidley
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Alabama quarterback Mac Jones (10)
Photo by Kent GidleyCrimson Tide Photos / UA Athletics
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After being selected by the Patriots, Mac Jones spoke first with NFL Network’s Melissa Stark. He told her he’d been hoping to end up in New England:
“This is what I wanted all along and I can’t wait to play for really the greatest franchise in NFL history,” Jones said. “So it’s going to be a lot of fun and we’re looking forward to it.”