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What started out as a night expected to be full of intrigue was mostly devoid of it.
Leading into Thursday night’s first round of the 2020 NFL Draft, nearly every draft analyst and mock drafter predicted we’d see something surprising. But in the words of the late, great Dennis Green, “They are who we thought they were.”
The first 12 picks went almost perfectly according to most mock drafts, with quarterbacks Joe Burrow, Tua Tagovailoa and Justin Herbert off the board by pick No. 7. The first “surprise” came when Las Vegas made Henry Ruggs as the first receiver taken ahead of teammate Jerry Jeudy and Oklahoma’s CeeDee Lamb.