NFL Draft buzz continues to grow for Farley, DarrisawNFL Draft buzz continues to grow for Farley, Darrisaw
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NFL Draft buzz continues to grow for Farley, Darrisaw

BLACKSBURG – The 2021 NFL Draft isn't scheduled to begin until April 29 in Cleveland, but there's already plenty of anticipation building that CB Caleb Farley and T Christian Darrisaw could both be selected in the first round. The only previous time that Virginia Tech landed two selections in the first round of the same NFL Draft was in 2018 when LB Tremaine Edmunds went 16th overall to Buffalo and his brother, Terrell, went 28th overall to Pittsburgh. 
 
Darrisaw was tabbed by seven different outlets as an All-America pick, including Associated Press and the Football Writers Association of America. A consensus first-team All-ACC selection in 2020, Darrisaw started 10 of the Hokies' contests at left tackle where he anchored the left side of Tech's offensive line and was part of a blocking unit that helped propel the squad to six 250-yard rushing games. The Hokies registered 27 rushing TDs, the squad's best total in a decade, and also paved the way for RB Khalil Herbert who posted six 100-yard rushing games in 2020. Darrisaw was named the ACC Offensive Lineman of the Week following Tech's 38-31 victory at Duke (10/5/20). 
 
NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah puts both Farley (No. 5) and Darrisaw (No. 28) on his initial board of the top 50 prospects in the 2021 NFL Draft. 
 


 
Farley blossomed into one of the ACC's top cornerbacks in just his second season playing that position in 2019. He originally worked at wide receiver at Tech after serving as a high school quarterback. A first-team All-ACC pick in 2019, he led the ACC with 16 passes defensed & ranked fourth in the nation averaging 1.5 passes defensed per game. He tied for second in the ACC with four INTs and registered a 17-yard INT return TD in a 45-0 shutout of Georgia Tech (11/16/10). The Hickory, N.C. native posted a career-high four passes defensed in a 43-41 six-OT win vs. North Carolina (10/19/19). 
 
Jeremiah's Mock Draft 1.0 is currently projecting Farley going to the Denver Broncos with the ninth overall pick and Darrisaw heading to the Miami Dolphins with the 18th pick in the first round.