NFL Draft 2020: Ranking the 5 biggest steals

By Dante Pryor | May 2, 2020

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Many teams got great value in the 2020 NFL Draft. Which teams got the biggest steals who could potentially become Pro Bowl players?

What constitutes a draft-day steal? Is it a player who went undervalued? Maybe it is a prospect who teams did not think the risk was worth the reward? Is it a draft-day steal if a team reaches for a player, leaving a better prospect on the board?

The answer to each question, of course, is yes. Some teams pass on a player that might not have measurables such as height, weight and 40-yard dash time. Does an offensive tackle need to run a sub-5.0 40-yard dash? Probably not, but that’s what some testing snobs believe.

Other players were too high-risk for teams. It might have been their medical or an off the field issue. Unless your name is Tua Tagovailoa, you took a fall because the risk was not worth the reward.

Of all the reasons draft-day steals occur, teams reach out of need. Instead of taking a player with a higher rating, they reach too high for a player who they probably could trade down to get instead of reaching too high.

No matter how it happens, draft-day trades are always the cause of many conversations around water coolers and sports talk radio.

Here are five of the biggest draft day steals from the 2020 NFL Draft.

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