Pro Football Network

2022 NFL mock drafts in the early weeks of the college football season are always prone to overreactions. It’s simply a byproduct of the game’s structure. We have dozens of games within a 12-hour window on Saturday, and then we have six full days to hyper-analyze everything we saw from an NFL Draft perspective. It’s important to recognize how easily recency bias can seep into the process this way. But at the same time, no one truly knows how the draft board will play out next April. In September, we can only have so much information. In a sense, that makes September perfect for indulging weekly overreactions — because the truth is, some of these overreactions might not end up as brash as we think.