Round 1


Step 1) invest heavily in Sam Darnold
Step 2) protect your investment
Step 3) who knows? Glad it's not my team


Wanted to tab Ezeiruaku here but found it too fun to pass up on Evans/Godwin eventually passing the torch to Tet/Jalen McMillan


Fading Omarion Hampton chalk given the deep RB class and going with a versatile pro-ready piece for Nix and Sean Payton


Mike Tomlin may be the only alpha capable of leading the Shedeur circus (immediate family excluded)


Rashan Gary didn't have much college production and worked out in GB. Lukas Van Ness? Not so much. Let's see if Gutey goes back to the well


Brian Flores would have so much fun deploying Emmanwori all over the band end of the Vikings D until he's ready to succeed Harrison Smith


Texans need OL and Jackson's versatility could appeal to a Texans OL that needs help basically everywhere after trading away Tunsil and whiffing on Kenyon Green


Stafford's successor? Rams trade back with CLE/NYG? Love that both scenarios cover me at this spot in the mock contest


Another year, another round 1 in which the Ravens extract every bit of value from the draft board and take another great player. I was tempted to slot Will Johnson here to pair with the speedy Nate Wiggins and eventually succeed Marlon Humphrey as Baltimore's big corner


Detroit invested heavily at CB in 2024. While that made me pause, neither Arnold nor Rakestraw (especially) showed enough to convince me that the Lions have fixed their CB room


Bobby Wagner is back for one more year. Campbell can recover and learn behind/next to the future HOF and add pass rush juice to a team expected to play often with the lead


Buffalo let the Chiefs get Xavier Worthy last year and everyone clowned them for it. While they can't undo that mistake, taking a CB who can run step-for-step with Worthy might be their best counter move one year later


Howie can't get enough pass rushers, and it's hard to argue with his logic. Again, we all watched the Super Bowl