3 in a shocking trade with the Cardinals, but my colleague R.J. I was going to leave the Texans out of this spot because I thought they overpaid a bit to move up from No. Levis' fall continued for quite some time, to the point he will spend the evening in a Kansas City hotel wondering when his name will be called on Day 2.

The Texans were rumored/buzzed to be interested in Levis as well and went with C.J.

Levis was like -500 to go fourth overall to the Colts right before the draft and Indy passed on him, taking Anthony Richardson instead. Pretty self explanatory, no? Levis had the latest awkward green room debacle, with NFL Network and ESPN zooming in on the Kentucky quarterback constantly as he kept seeing his agent shake his head and blush. If Todd Monken comes in and gets it going early on offense, 20-1 for Lamar MVP will look silly by October. Zay can also be a really interesting option on horizontal movement stuff to open up the run game even more. Which is fine - the combo of Mark Andrews, Rashod Bateman, Odell and Zay is very complementary and VERY explosive. It definitely has a 'we could do anything now that Lamar is signed but we promised him another weapon' vibe to it. Not only did the Ravens quarterback secure the proverbial bag ahead of the draft, signing a contract that we're told includes $185 million guaranteed (whatever the ultimate fully guaranteed number he got a LOT of money), but he had one of his top wide receivers (Odell Beckham) kickstart the WR run in this draft with a tweet followed by Lamar landing another weapon in my favorite wideout, Boston College's Zay Flowers.

If you hate anything below, holler at me on Twitter ( or Instagram ( If you love this article, tweet Pete Prisco ( about a certain QB who wasn't drafted. Everyone's record is 0-0 and everyone thinks they got better, to the point the Browns and Broncos are sending respective Deshaun Watson and Russell Wilson tweets, as if their fans didn't see 2022 or realize what happened to the draft picks this year. Or maybe it's hard to find losers on an optimistic night.

The reality is I'm probably just too lazy to come up with a new label. Here in North Carolina they're trying to abolish the participation trophy so I'm a little nervous about trying to assuage the losers over the label given here. There's plenty of other drama that unfolded on Thursday and of course we have to pick winners and losers. Two running backs went before the first wide receiver, and, yes, this is 2023. We saw a top-five pick traded on the clock, which is a rarity in the modern NFL draft era (of COURSE the two teams I said couldn't trade out somehow traded with each other) and a high-profile QB drop like a rock. The first round of the 2023 NFL Draft is in the books and while it may not have featured the most magnificent upper tier draft class of all time, there's no doubt it was a wild first round.

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