Mock Draft 3.0 (Ginger King)

We are less than one week away from the Show! We are in full blown smokescreen season, as teams finalize their interviews and workouts with players, and PR teams are in overdrive feeding (mostly inaccurate) information into the world (read: Twitter) to be gobbled up by willing suckers (me) who will overanalyze every piece of information in an attempt to find out the truth. If you look hard enough, you too will understand that the earth is flat, the moon landing is fake, and Stevie Wonder can see (that one is true). Anyway, let’s take a look at the board:

I feel pretty good about the top half of this mock, especially if Cleveland takes Hunter. The Giants, Pats, and Jags will walk up together and make their picks. I also like Jeanty to the Raiders. The Shedeur Slide continues to top the charts. With the recent news that Shedeur and co. will not be attending the Draft, I think they know the Shedeur Slide is real, and the last thing Deion wants is his son to be Geno Smithed at the Draft.

Big changes here. The Niners are a hard team to pin down. They really could go a number of directions. The wise choice is to pair Bosa up with a stud Edge, and Shemar Stewart fits that role. For the first time, Tetairoa McMillan is not the first receiver taken, as the Cowboys value speed over size, and stay in-state and draft Matthew Golden, who had the fastest 40 time at the Combine for receivers with a blazing 4.29. If Will Johnson didn’t have injury issues, he’d be a no-brainer Top 10 pick. Great size (sometimes it matters) and instincts. Problem is he missed the second half of the season last year to a foot injury. He’s worth the risk to anyone picking in the middle to back half of the first round.

I do think Jaxson Dart sneaks into the first round. If he gets by Pittsburgh, some teams may try trading back into the First Round. If not, a great landing place is in Los Angeles, where he can sit behind and learn from Matthew Stafford, and not be forced into playing right away. Elsewhere, Maxwell Hairston is flying up draft boards. He ran the fastest 40 at the Combine (4.28), and what he lacks in height he more than makes up with speed and wing span. 6 ints (3 pick 6s) in his last 20 games. Buffalo needs secondary help to keep up with the improving corps of receivers in the AFC East, including Garrett Wilson, Tyreek Hill, and western New York’s favorite Stefon Diggs.

Don’t worry, we’re not done mocking yet. There’s still plenty more internet to search. We’ll be updating our mocks accordingly, as well as connecting the dots between the Illuminati and the Kennedys.

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