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Top-10 Picks:
No.1: Jacksonville
No.2: New York Jets
No.3: San Francisco (from Miami via Houston)
No.4: Atlanta
No.5: Cincinnati
No.6: Miami (From Philadelphia)
No.7: Detroit
No.8: Carolina
No.9: Denver
No.10: Dallas
Playoff Leaders: American Football Conference No.1: *Kansas City (14 - 2)
No.2: zBuffalo (13 - 3). No.3: zPittsburgh (12 - 4)
No.4: zTennessee (11 - 5) Wins tie break over Indianapolis based on best win percentage in division games. No.5: xBaltimore (11 - 5) Wins tie break over Indianapolis based on head-to-head win percentage. Wins tie break over Cleveland based on head-to-head win percentage). No.6: xCleveland (11 - 5) Wins tie break over Indianapolis based on head-to-head win percentage. No.7: xIndianapolis (11 - 5)
National Football Conference
No.1: *Green Bay (13 - 3)
No.2: zNew Orleans (12 - 4) Wins tie break over Seattle based on best win percentage in conference games. No.3: zSeattle (12 - 4)
No.4: zWashington (7 - 9)
No.5: xTampa Bay (11 - 5)
No.6: xLos Angeles Rams (10 - 6)
No.7: xChicago (8 - 8) Wins tie break over Arizona based on best win percentage in common games.
* --:Clinched Division and Bye Z --:Clinched Division X --:Clinched Wild Card
Philadelphia Eagles trade up with Dallas Cowboys Thwarted in their bids to take a cornerback, the Cowboys traded their 10th pick and got back the 12th pick as well as the Eagles' third-round pick. The Cowboys were high on cornerbacks Jaycee Horn and Patrick Surtain, who went to Carolina and Denver at Nos. 8 and 9, respectively.
Dallas Cowboys' draft (mostly) all about a defense that needed change
After allowing a franchise-record 473 points and 6,183 yards in Nolan's one year as coordinator, the Cowboys knew they had to make a drastic change in 2021 on defense. It started in January with the hiring of Dan Quinn as coordinator and culminated over the 2021 NFL draft with a first in team history.
Ranking every team's 2021 NFL Draft class: The 2021 NFL Draft is over, all 259 selections have been made, and all that's left to do is brace for the knee-jerk reactions from media folk. This is nothing more than an exercise in checking boxes -- Did Team X fill those needs it was unable to fill in free agency?
NFL draft 2021: Ranking the best in-draft trades, and why the Giants, Vikings got value
To determine reasonable values for draft picks relative to one another, we have our own draft chart based on a regression of historical performance of players by draft pick using Pro Football Reference's approximate value metric (similar to work done by many others, including Chase Stuart in 2013). By comparison, the antiquated Jimmy Johnson chart overweighs how quickly the talent of players drops off as picks elapse in the draft. Our analysis does not include the difference in salary by pick, as Massey and Thaler's research did, which would cause an even more severe departure from the Johnson chart.
College football post-spring Top 25 power rankings
Alabama, the defending national champion, had six players selected in the first round of last week's NFL draft, tying the Miami Hurricanes record set in 2004. Alabama and Ohio State each had 10 players drafted overall, the most of any program in this year's draft. Georgia was third with nine draft selections, the most in school history. Which team might be best equipped to reach the CFP? Oklahoma, which hasn't won a national championship since 2000 and has lost three straight CFP semifinal games to SEC opponents under coach Lincoln Riley.