NFL Draft Reside: Did we hit and miss on every first-round choose?

The NFL Draft is underway and Rivals recruiting director Adam Gorney will share his reminiscences of every choose all through the primary spherical, and clarify why they had been ranked the place they had been in highschool.

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Gorney’s lookback: Cam Ward is the primary No. 1 in Rivals historical past relationship 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 every little thing alongside the way in which. LeSean McCoy mentioned he wasn’t offered on Ward as a result of he wasn’t a five-star man. In a nasty quarterback draft class, Ward is by far one of the best of the bunch and earned being taken No. 1 general each step of the way in which.