15 unusual NFL Draft winners and losers

Enough with the draft grades — what teams, players, and intangibles really won and lost on Draft Day?

The best non-sports sports weekend of the year is in the books after 256 picks and 7,382 arguments between Todd McShay and Mel Kiper, Jr. And thus ends the 2018 NFL Draft, from Cleveland’s surprisingly solid pick of Baker Mayfield at 1 right down to Mr. Irrelevant Trey Quinn at the conclusion. It was a wild first round, with 16 of the 32 original picks exchanging hands and four potential franchise quarterbacks going in the top ten picks.

You’ve already read a hundred draft reviews and grades with obvious winners like the Broncos for landing Bradley Chubb, the Packers for grabbing a future pick, and the Browns for sucking so bad they had too many picks to miss on all of them. You don’t need yet another article to tell you the Rams were dumb to trade away their top two picks this year for Brandin Cooks and Sammy Watkins.

So let’s dig a little deeper. What teams and players really won on draft day? What intangibles stood out among the crowd? And who — or what — were the NFL’s biggest losers on NFL Draft weekend 2018?

Let’s pick 15 winners and losers …