Episode 1459
2021 NFL Draft
Sat, 2021-May-01 04:35 UTC
Length - 2:17
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The 2021 NFL Draft is the 86th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible players for the 2021 NFL season. The draft is being held in Cleveland from April 29 to May 1, 2021. The Jacksonville Jaguars, who finished with the worst record in 2020, held the draft's first overall selection and drafted Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
Five quarterbacks were selected in the first round — Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Fields, and Mac Jones — the second highest number of first-round quarterback selections (tied with the 1999 and 2018 drafts) after the six selected in 1983. The draft also marks the third time the first three picks (Lawrence, Wilson, and Lance) were quarterbacks, following the 1971 and 1999 drafts. In addition, the Big 12 Conference, for the first time since its creation, did not have a single player drafted in the first round (by comparison the Southeastern Conference had 12, with Alabama having six first-round picks, tied with Miami for the most by a single university; this was tied with the Atlantic Coast Conference overall and only one behind the Big Ten Conference which had seven).
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 04:35 UTC on Saturday, 1 May 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see 2021 NFL Draft on Wikipedia.
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