MINNEAPOLIS — Thanks, Stan Kroenke, Les Snead and Sean McVay. Your Super Bowl-winning Rams Way turned many a mock draft from bad to ugly to "You Get Paid To Do This?"
The formerly tried-and-true amateur algorithm that all teams that need a quarterback will always and forever panic in the first round of the draft is out. Patience and sensible draft board evaluation of the game's most important position is in.
The first quarterback taken — Kenny Pickett to the Steelers — went at No. 20, the lowest since 1997. The second quarterback taken — Desmond Ridder to the Falcons — went No. 74 in the third round, the third-lowest ever. And, no, Malik Willis did not go No. 8 (guilty). He went 78 picks later, to Tennessee in the third round.
