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Chris Simms' Immediate-Impact Rookies

The big story of the 2017 NFL draft was the quarterbacks and the teams that traded up to get them in the opening round. For the first time in draft history, we had three moves up in Round 1 for signal-callers. What those moves did, however, is push a lot of talent down into the late first, the second and even the third rounds.

While I like the group of quarterbacks taken on the draft's opening night—North Carolina's Mitchell Trubisky, Texas Tech's Patrick Mahomes and Clemson's Deshaun Watson—the fact is none of them are ready to make an immediate impact for their teams.