First-round full of surprises … It seems that just about every draft year, the watchwords heading into the draft are ‘expect the unexpected’ but then year and year out it seems that the picks actually come off the year in pretty much cookie cutter fashion. Not so much in last night’s opening round of the 2018 draft which was chock full of surprises starting with the first pick overall when Cleveland chose Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield who really hadn’t even been in the conversation to be the #1 pick until just 2-3 days before the draft. Indeed, the biggest takeaway from this year’s opening round was probably that in the end the league just didn’t see the value in this year’s QB class that was expected based on the amount of time the various teams had put in evaluating the top prospects at the position. Read more
