https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2021-...cos-lions/

This site ranks the draft classes 1-32...or 32-1.

The Jaguars ranked 22nd.

Quote:Favorite pick: Tyson Campbell. The Georgia cornerback had a late first-round grade from us and ended up as the first selection of Round 2. He's a long, physical corner who is smooth in his transitions, he just needs to be more productive in creating turnovers.

Best value: USC'S Jay Tufele  was a mid-third-rounder for us but a weak defensive line class depressed the position's value throughout the league. It started at the top, with Christian Barmore (first-round talent who went early in Round 2) all the way through 250th pick Khyiris Tonga.

Most surprising pick: Stanford's Walker Little  was the 13th pick of the second round and we liked him more as an early fourth-rounder. But there's an easy explanation: Little opted out last season and prior to that he battled injuries. We just haven't seen a lot of him, though a year ago he was certainly in the first-round conversation (Little made an appearance in our way-too-early 2021 mock draft that was published last May). The Jaguars were clearly comfortable with his medicals and his decision to opt out and perhaps in a few years' time we're talking about this as one of most prescient picks in this draft.

I can understand this ranking on its face.  But there's a lot I don't and can't understand.

  What I can't understand at ALL is ranking our draft below Houston's.

In every single one of his 34 or so mock drafts, he had Trevor Lawrence-the Jaguars 1st draft pick-mocked to go 1st overall.  I don't recall him ever mocking Davis Mills in the first round.  By his own admission, he had Tyson Campbell ranked as a first round talent.  Nobody in the Texans draft was ranked as a first round talent by his own ranking system.  Even if he felt Etienne was taken a full round above where he should have been taken, by his own takes, the Jaguars have at least three players who carry a minimum of a second round grade.  Houston didn't.  His favorite pick for the Texans is a TE that ran a 4.9 40 at his own Pro Day.  If you examined our draft, there are at last three players, perhaps four who would likely start for Houston immediately{  Lawrence, Etienne, Campbell and Cisco.  Do any of the Texans draft picks start for us-as a 1-15 team?  Probably not.

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