One of the major blind spots by NFL media that has been greatly exposed — but rarely highlighted by anyone other than me — is that many seem to think that all first round picks are created equal. At no other time — other than when a team trades an undetermined first round pick — do media members seem to treat every first rounder like it’s a top-three pick.
Yet when the draft approaches and eventually arrives, those same writers come to their senses about the actual relationship between picking first and picking 31st. Those two picks — 1 and 31 — are about the same as Keenan and Kel.