The 2023 NFL Draft promised to be polarizing given how many of the NFL’s 32 teams were in agreement that there were fewer than 20 players with true, first-round grades. Thursday night lived up to that billing with not one but TWO running backs going in not just the first round, but the first 12 picks, in an NFL Draft in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty three. If told that was going to happen beforehand, I would’ve thought it was a weird dream or a hallucination after a few sleep-deprived days.
Plenty of teams crushed their picks, including the first two picks with Bryce Young going first overall to the Carolina Panthers and C.J. Stroud going second overall to the Houston Texans, after plenty of smoke and mirrors.
Three teams with multiple picks made picks I liked (the Texans, Philadelphia Eagles, and Seattle Seahawks) while one (the Detroit Lions) drafted like it was the 1990s all over again. Here are five picks I liked and five I didn’t after the opening round in Kansas City.
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Picks I liked
QB C.J. Stroud (No. 2 to Texans)
This makes all the sense in the world. I had my “What teams should do” mock draft come out earlier this week, and I said the Houston Texans should take C.J. Stroud and not overthink it. We heard some conversations about it maybe being Will Anderson Jr. Great…
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