2021 NFL draft: Analysis and grades for all 32 first-round picks

With the first round of the 2021 NFL draft in the books, Touchdown Wire’s Doug Farrar provides grades and analysis for all 32 picks.

The mock drafts are shelved. The speculation is over. We now know every pick in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft, and there are 32 new additions to the NFL family. Which teams pulled off the biggest steals, and which teams might want to re-think their choices? It’s always specious at best to grade draft picks right as they happen, but as a card-carrying member of the Draft Industrial Complex, I am obliged to do just that. Here’s how the top 32 picks in the 2021 NFL draft look, at least in one analyst’s eyes, with grades from me, and analysis from myself and Touchdown Wire colleague Mark Schofield.