It’s a draft tradition, in the NFL and every other sport. All the focus leading up to it is about the first round, maybe the first two; all the focus immediately after is about who won, who lost, who passed and who flunked. It’s not until long afterward that the real gems of the draft are revealed.
And that’s when the teams that pulled off the biggest steals — the future stars plucked late in the draft, when the picks are relegated to a streamer at the bottom of the screen.
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These are the biggest steals in the NFL Draft since 2000, by position, including one who, for the foreseeable future, will be known as the biggest one of all time.