Updated GBN mock posted … Most draft years tend to hard to mock, however, this year feels even harder than most. We have a pretty good idea that Jacksonville is going to take Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence with the first pick overall. After that, though, it really is a crap shoot, at least when it comes to trying to predict what individual teams are actually going to do when they get on the clock on April 29th. In particular, most of the teams with early picks this year have a myriad of needs literally each of which they literally address with one of this year’s top prospects. There is also the strong possibility that there will be a number of trades early in this year’s draft with so many teams apparently looking for a QB upgrade from a talented, albeit limited supply of prospects at the position. As such, one could put together a reasonably reasonable first-round projection and then do an entirely different one based on a separate set of assumptions that would be just as reasonably reasonable. That said, we have updated our first-round projection based largely on the ‘what-if’ assumption that there is an early run on QBs including trades. It doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination, though, to see that changing the assumption would very much influence the direction of the early picks. And, of course, that’s what NFL teams when they prepare for the draft. They don’t do just one mock, but rather they do multiple versions based on all the likely scenarios.
