Pro Football Network

As we write this 3-round 2021 NFL Mock Draft, we’re approaching the second half of the NFL’s perception cycle. In the offseason, teams experience optimism in the absence of resistance. But as the season arrives and progresses, certain teams receive sobering reminders of how far they still have to go, and the present gets less and less endearing. By the halfway point, we know who most of these teams are, save for the few who toil in the middle.