NFL Draft 2017: 10 Biggest Hits From First Round

The first round of the 2017 NFL draft is now done, and these ten teams made a big splash with their picks.

When a team makes their first round selection, they are expecting that player to be able to make an impact right from the start. If a team takes a quarterback early in the first round, more likely than not, they are expecting him to be their franchise piece.

When it comes to quarterbacks in the first round, 21 have been selected from 2007 – 2014. Four have become franchise quarterbacks, while eight aren’t in the NFL anymore. Three more were taken in the first round this year. All three teams that took a quarterback traded up to get their guy.

Many speculated that the draft would be filled with defensive players early, but that was not the case, as quarterbacks and wide receivers dominated the first five picks.

Overall the first round in 2017 was interesting. There were some reaches, including the Bears trading up one spot to get QB Mitch Trubisky, when in all reality they could have gotten him the pick later. Jabrill Peppers and Reuben Foster were both selected in the first round even after they tested for a diluted drug test sample.

With that, here are the ten best hits from the first round of the2017 NFL draft.