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Mock Draft: The Calm Before The Storm

This week, our operations team put their thoughts on paper by releasing their version of the projected selections, using traditional scouting and analytics in conjunction with the NFL Draft Website.

You can click the link to see the full seven rounds of selections, with their first round picks below

They used traditional scouting and analytics in conjunction with the NFL Draft Website, You can click the link to see the full seven rounds of selections. Their first round picks are below.

Pick

Team

Player

College

1

LV

QB Fernando Mendoza

Indiana

2

NYJ

EDGE Arvell Reese

Ohio State

3

ARI

OT Francis Mauigoa

Miami FL

4

TEN

RB Jeremiyah Love

Notre Dame

5

NYG

LB Sonny Styles

Ohio State

6

CLE

WR Carnell Tate

Ohio State

7

WAS

S Caleb Downs

Ohio State

8

NO

EDGE David Bailey

Texas Tech

9

KC

EDGE Rueben Bain Jr.

Miami FL

10

CIN

CB Mansoor Delane

LSU

11

MIA

OT Spencer Fano

Utah

12

DAL

CB Jermod McCoy

Tennessee

13

LAR

WR Jordyn Tyson

Arizona State

14

BAL

OG Olaivavega Ioane

Penn State

15

TB

TE Kenyon Sadiq

Oregon

16

NYJ

WR Makai Lemon

USC

17

DET

OT Kadyn Proctor

Alabama

18

MIN

S Dillon Thieneman

Oregon

19

CAR

WR Omar Cooper Jr.

Indiana

20

DAL

EDGE Akheem Mesidor

Miami FL

21

PIT

OT Caleb Lomu

Utah

22

LAC

EDGE T.J. Parker

Clemson

23

PHI

OT Monroe Freeling

Georgia

24

CLE

OT Blake Miller

Clemson

25

CHI

S Emmanuel McNeil-Warren

Toledo

26

BUF

LB CJ Allen

Georgia

27

SF

OT Max Iheanachor

Arizona State

28

HOU

DT Caleb Banks

Florida

29

KC

CB Avieon Terrell

Clemson

30

MIA

CB Chris Johnson

San Diego State

31

NE

EDGE Cashius Howell

Texas A&M

32

SEA

OG Emmanuel Pregnon

Oregon

The NFL Draft Website is your best friend and the perfect second screen during the Draft. We’ve got scouting reports on more than 400 of the top players, with many more to come. With that, we’ve got ratings and rankings. It’s basically everything a GM would want to know.

Our statistical information package includes Total Points, our proprietary metric that values everything that happens on the field, as well as position-specific performance data in the form of raw totals, averages, and percentile rankings. And we explain our stats in our glossary.

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