If you kill a mob in minecraft the drops will be dropped before the mob disappeared. It will play a death animation before it actually dies, but the drops appear at the start of that animation. I noticed this in 1.14, but it is still not fixed in 1.16.3.
MC-202884
Mob drops before death animation
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MisteryGates
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1.16.3
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