Question: What is the most important round in the draft?
Answer: All of the above.
The first round gets all the glory, and for good reason. That is where teams can acquire the players that are widely regarded as immediate starters. But that doesn’t mean that beyond that point, an immediate starter is impossible to find.
Quality players can be found in every round of the draft, if a team does their homework and knows what each player brings to the table. We’ve seen countless examples throughout history. Richard Sherman. Tom Brady. Even our own Josh Norman.