The 2021 NFL Draft is going to be a unique one.
In addition to a highly disrupted draft process, the NFL is going to have to navigate the evaluation of, and assigning values to, multiple top prospects who did not play in the 2020 season. Perhaps the biggest challenge of the players who opted out of the 2020 season is wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase out of LSU.
Chase only has one season of truly elite production, and it came in the same season as great play from the entire LSU offense and historically great play from QB Joe Burrow.