LAOJoe & RTTRUTH's 10th Annual "Official" Mock Draft

@matthewwillson29 Bengals OTC

 

I actually like it a lot Memphis. You got athletes all over the place. Good value throughout (even if the 7th is a throw-away). Your riskier picks are probably all the later ones (Gustin /Fitz). And you hit Houston's major needs. Well done!

 

Cincinnati Bengals Select
Xavier Crawford
CB
Central Michigan

 

@Quew777 Lions are OTC

 

Detroit Lions select Emeke Egbule, LB, Houston

 

I was about to say maybe we should get a search party to find you because you were taking a while.

 

Why did you delete your post TD?

 

The Buffalo Bills select Reis Seggebruch, LB, Cornell UniversitUniversity.

 

@KilkennyDan I'm here and you'll be up again in a moment.

 

The Green Bay Packers Select
Ryan Bates, OL - Penn State

 

The Oakland Raiders Select
Mike Bell, S - Fresno State

 

@KilkennyDan OTC

 

The Buffalo Bills select Henry Stillwell, OL, Cornell University.

 

Well Dan you'll probably end the night on deck as the Giants probably don't show. But who knows?

 

I don't track them, but if I remember the names I'll think back that "yeah, I drafted him in the mock". For me the bigger comparison is the general strategy rather than specific players - did the real team do something similar to what I did, or did they go a completely different direction? And if they went the opposite way, how did it turn out?

 

@Quew777 OTC

 

@TopDawg you here?

 

Dallas Cowboys
2(32) Taylor Rapp: FS - Washington
3(26) Khalen Saunders: DT - Western Illinois
4(19) Austin Bryant: DE - Clemson
4(26) Lamont Gaillard: C - Georgia
5(3) Alize Mack: TE - Notre Dame
6(24) Sione Takitaki: LB - BYU
6(41) Jordan Ta'amu: QB - Mississippi

Green Bay Packers
1(4) Quinnen Williams: DT - Alabama
2(12) Irv Smith Jr.: TE - Alabama
3(11) Amani Hooker: S - Iowa
3(32) Tre Lamar: ILB - Clemson
4(12) Emanuel Hall: WR - Missouri
6(21) Hamp Cheevers: CB - Boston College
6(33) Demarcus Christmas: DL - Florida State
7(12) Ryan Bates, OL - Penn State

 

Yeah, I like it. Hits the needs, adds depth to several units, and the guys are generally good system fits. Favorite picks are the back-to-back second round linemen (keep Deshaun healthy!) and Justice Hill in the fifth (good value there - and screen passes or drop-off passes
to him could be lethal).

Six players from the SEC West... did it just happen to fall that way, or were you giving preference to those guys because you were more familiar with them than other conferences?

I actually like the "throwaway" Fitzgerald pick. This hits a discussion from yesterday. In the seventh round, it's perfectly fine to throw "value" out the window and take a flyer on a project guy with potential. I agree that his issues can be coached (or at least worked around), and that Houston would be a good landing spot for him - if you can stash him on the practice squad to reshirt him.

 

Interesting "bookend" drafts in that I like the first half of the Dallas draft better than the back end, where I really like the developmental potential of all the players in the back half for Green Bay.

Not that there's anything wrong with Mack or Ta'amu, but I'm a bit skeptical that Dallas is the place where they would have the best opportunity to prosper. It's not them so much as the organization.

On the other side I looked at all four of the 4th-7th round Green Bay picks as candidates for my own prospect lists (Hall for the GMO draft). Some weren't the best system fits for my specific schemes, but all of them were on my own target lists at least as "plan B" candidates.