Gridiron Heroics

It’s NFL combine week and draft season is about to pick up steam in a big way. Free agency is less than a month away and mock drafts are being pumped out daily by the boatload. I have already completed my first mock (which you can find here) and it has undergone some changes since then, and a few more trades than the first iteration. The way I decide when trades happen is how the board looks at the time, if a team can’t get a great value player for a needed position then we look at which teams are the most likely to trade up to get someone on their big board. The only trade I truly see happening before draft day is when the Bears offload that first pick and the current frontrunner seems to be the Colts. All that being said, I thought there would be more than five. Because of NIL deals stealing away draft eligible prospects for “one more bite at the apple”, you could say there is a drought at a number of positions this year and that might make teams reluctant to leave their positioning to settle for players with a lower projected ceiling.