The Buccaneers’ dominant Super Bowl win on Sunday closed the 2020 NFL season and opened the door to what promises to be a lively and unusual off-season – which of course includes the 2021 NFL draft. The Tampa Bay defense has shown what it can do. makes clever sketching for a team, with recent early-round selections Devin White and Antoine Winfield Jr. each carrying in an interception. Which team will make smart moves in this year’s project to take the next step? Let’s predict how all the 32 selections from the first round will play on April 29.
Despite the lack of a traditional combine this year, there is still plenty of time to move on the design boards. Interviews, nurses, professional training and more digging in the game box are in front of you. Likewise, a lot has changed in just one month since my last mockery after a thrilling national college football game and the annual Senior Bowl week. We are still more than two months away and we have a lot to learn about this talented class – including how defenders and game players are accumulating.
But, with the design order blocked after match no. 269 of the season and a lot of talent in this year’s class to be excited about, here’s my post-Super Bowl projection of the first 32 picks of the 2021 NFL draft, starting with a no-holds-barred at No. 1. And surprise – we have two trades in this edition.
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Note: For more information, check out SportsCenter Special at 5:00 PM Wednesday (ESPN2), where I will discuss each team’s choices.
Trevor Lawrence, QB, Clemson
Another fake project, another screening from Lawrence to Jacksonville. You won’t see much of anything else and for good reason. The great defender with 6 legs and 6 weapons has all the features you want in a franchised guy and he would be the focal point of what the new coach Urban Meyer hopes to build. Only Washington has a lower overall QBR in the last three seasons than the Jaguars’ 41.6, but Lawrence finished in the top 10 among all FBS defenders in that category in every season of his college career. He will throw for scouts on Friday before surgery on his shoulder which he does not throw this spring, but consider him the lock for the top pick at the moment.