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2016 NFL Draft: The Biggest Dominoes of Day 1

April 25, 2016   ·     ·   Jump to comments

This late in the draft process, no one is unearthing gem prospects. Every one of the 32 NFL franchises have a set big board by now and are focusing on a new task: trying to figure out who comes off the board when.
Front offices are running different scenarios and various mock drafts right now in an attempt to realize where they need to move in the draft to target a specific position or prospect based on the rest of the league's personnel and draft order. That, in some ways, is just as important as how you rank a big board.
We've already seen two teams, the Los Angeles Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles, make aggressive trades to get to the top of the draft, and this was after Philadelphia traded to get into the top eight by flipping one-year Eagles Kiko Alonso and Byron Maxwell to the Miami Dolphins. The NFL draft has a solidified order in mocks, but in practice, the order is fluid on draft day.
Looking at the event from a big-picture standpoint, there are four different c...

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