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Round 1 takeaways: Veteran quarterbacks, you got put on notice

Hey, when you spend four months previewing something, trot out eleventy-billion mock drafts and work everybody into a froth trying to figure out how 19- and 20-year-olds project as pro athletes, the least you can hope is that the thing is interesting.

So far, so good.

Thursday’s first round of the NFL draft was loaded with twists and surprises, literally from the beginning to the end. Lots to unpack here, and it’s impossible to hit it all right away in the aftermath. But we can try.

Here’s a quick effort to decode some of what we learned in the first round of this year’s NFL draft:

The quarterbacks all went to places that make sense for them

Think about it.