Auburn football (Mandatory credit: The Columbus Dispatch)
Auburn football fans don’t have a horse (or Tiger, rather) in the race for day one of the NFL Draft, but in a way, they do.
You see, one of the most ridiculous realities about this year’s draft is what many experts expect the San Francisco 49ers to do with the #3 pick.
That would be drafting Mac Jones.
While the Jacksonville, Florida native did win the NCAA Championship via a dominant sweep of the College Football Playoff, and he was a top-four finisher in the 2020 Heisman race eventually won by Devonta Smith, assuming the success is replicable at the NFL level with what he has shown in the pre-draft process (aka very little due to injury) is a fool’s errand.