Washington Football Team: Draft strategy 101 for the 2021 offseason

ARLINGTON, TX - APRIL 26: A video board displays the text "THE PICK IS IN" for the Washington Redskins during the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft at AT&T Stadium on April 26, 2018 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, TX - APRIL 26: A video board displays the text "THE PICK IS IN" for the Washington Redskins during the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft at AT&T Stadium on April 26, 2018 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) /
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ARLINGTON, TX – APRIL 26: A video board displays the text “THE PICK IS IN” for the Washington Football Team during the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft at AT&T Stadium on April 26, 2018 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, TX – APRIL 26: A video board displays the text “THE PICK IS IN” for the Washington Football Team during the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft at AT&T Stadium on April 26, 2018 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) /

Remember the good old days when the NFL draft was so easy?

Get your defensive linemen from the SEC and your offensive linemen from the Big Ten. Make sure your quarterback was born within a couple hundred miles of Lake Erie – Pennsylvania getting the slight edge over Ohio if you had to choose – and you were good to go.

These days, it is so much more complicated. So, as the Washington Football Team turns its attention to the 2021 draft, I offer Kyle Smith and Ron Rivera my new and improved Draft Golden Rules.