The NFL Draft’s first spherical is within the books and Rivals recruiting director Adam Gorney shared his recollections of every decide all through the primary spherical, and defined why they had been ranked the place they had been in highschool.
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1. Tennessee Titans: QB Cam Ward (Miami)
Gorney’s lookback: Cam Ward is the primary No. 1 in Rivals historical past courting again to 2002 that was unranked in highschool. He was not heralded in highschool, went to Incarnate Phrase and shined earlier than transferring to Washington State and dominating there and completed his profession at Miami.
It was not a clear path and he was not the marquee within the 2020 class that was led at QB by Bryce Younger however Ward earned all the pieces alongside the way in which. LeSean McCoy stated he wasn’t bought on Ward as a result of he wasn’t a five-star man. In a foul quarterback draft class, Ward is by far the most effective of the bunch and earned being taken No. 1 general each step of the way in which.
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