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Florida Gators junior tight end Kyle Pitts was indisputably the best at his position and among the best pass-catchers in all of college football in 2020, putting up video game numbers despite missing three games to a head injury and opting out of the Cotton Bowl against the Oklahoma Sooners to prepare for the 2021 National Football League’s amateur draft.
Many draft day prognosticators see 6-foot-6-incher from Philadelphia as a high first-round pick in the draft, including ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay, who sees Pitts going sixth overall. However, not everyone is so bullish on Florida’s departing star.
Kyle Crabbs of The Draft Network sees things much differently in his 2021 Mock Draft 4.2 published on Friday, in which he projected Pitts to go near the end of the first round to a team that struggled mightily this past season: the New York Jets at pick No. 27.
27. Jets – Kyle Pitts -TE, Florida
The Jets may not have much clarity on what Sam Darnold is or isn’t as the 2020 season comes to a close, but here’s what we do know: he’s young, he’s physically talented, he’s (relatively) cheap and he’s going to have the two best offensive threats of his young NFL career with New York’s two first-round selections in this scenario. TE Kyle Pitts the next ultimate mismatch tight end—and the Jets pairing him with DeVonta Smith and several future first-round picks feels like a big win for a team just looking for some direction as a roster.
While it would be a major disappointment if Pitts fell this far, he would join a team already packed with former Gators — including previous teammate running back Lamical Perine — and would fill an immediate need on a team that is struggling at pretty much every aspect of the game this year.
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