Is 2011 the best defensive NFL draft class ever? C...

Bill Barnwell reports on ESPN that the two-thousand-eleven NFL defensive draft class—which included J.J. Watt and Patrick Peterson—may have been the best in league history. The argument for whether it tops nineteen-eighty-one as the gold standard, Barnwell suggests, could ultimately come down to two other players from that class who remain active today.

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