The 2015 NFL season kicks off this week, and we will see some of this year’s first-round rookies thrown right into the starting lineups for their teams.
Some other first-round picks will have to wait for their opportunities to start due to the depth on the teams, while a few will enter the season with injuries. In the most unfortunate cases, there are a couple of first-round draft picks who will have to wait until 2016 to play, due to the severity of the injuries they sustained in offseason practices.
The following is an early look at what we might expect to see from the top picks of this year’s draft class.