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Why Tampa Bay's Chris Godwin was the first non-quarterback taken in PFF's NFL redraft

Last Thursday, George Chahrouri, Timo Riske, Kevin Cole and I from PFF’s Research and Development group, along with FiveThirtyEight’s Josh Hermsmeyer and EstablishTheRun’s Evan Silva, redrafted the NFL.

[Editor's Note: Watch the first two rounds of PFF's NFL redraft here! A written breakdown of every first-round pick can be found here.]

Unsurprisingly, the six of us went quarterback heavy with the first bunch of picks. Maybe surprisingly, though, it took us until Pick 27 to take a player who wasn’t a signal-caller. I selected Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Chris Godwin with that pick, and people had some … questions.