LAOJoe & RTTRUTH's 11th Annual Collaborative Mock Draft

@RicoL8

Titans OTC

 

Titans pick Isaiah Wilson, OT, UGA

 

The Washington Redskins select:

Tyler Biadasz, C - Wisconsin

 

Bears are OTC

@TopDawg

 

This makes me very happy that I traded down. He was #1 on my target list, and I'm not all that crazy about #2 and #3 for various reasons. I like the next group of potential candidates better, but (unlike our real GM) I'm too value oriented to feel comfortable taking them in the mid third.

For my system fit / needs, I would have moved Wilson to guard. He's another Hog Molly like two that we already have (James Carpenter and Jamon Brown). At least theoretically that didn't work out so well last year, as the line play was quite porous. But I put that on the coaches - we heard they would be using more inside/man stuff last spring, so the GM went out and got two big free agent guards who are perfect for that sort of thing.

Then the coaching staff kept dialing up the outside zone. Yeah... a 340+ pound guard trying to keep up with outside stretch runs and rolling pockets? That's a holding call waiting to happen. And yet fans seemed surprised and pissed off at Jamon Brown whenever it actually did happen.

 

Good trade on your part then. I might have considered drafting him myself, but the thought of the Falcons using another Day Two draft pick on another center from Wisconsin makes me want to vomit.

 

Bears select

Netane Muti, G - Fresno State

 

RAIDERS OTC for back to back picks.

@Spicyweiner

 

I was very happy to get a potential RT starter to come compete with Kelly for Conklin’s spot

 

Was hoping he'd fall a few more spots.

 

Hmmm. And here the thought of Dallas drafting another center from Wisconsin was greatly appealing.

 

Sorry just texted him

 

Board updated.

 

Netane Muti is a 1st round pick on a prominent mock, and the same one has one other prospect that still hasn't been selected. I'll mention the mocker after he gets picked.

 

We don't have much luck with players from Wisconsin or Ohio State.

The center I was referring to was Peter Konz, the top rated center of the 2012 draft class and Atlanta's second round pick that year. We didn't have a first rounder or fourth rounder that year because of the trade up to take Julio Jones the prior year. And then our GM did one of his classic reaches in the third round for an OT (Lamar Holmes) who frankly should have gone pretty late on day three, not round three.

And in the fifth round, they took another Wisconsin player - a highly rated fullback (Bradie Ewing). He tore his ACL in preseason and went on IR. The next year he hurt his shoulder in week two and went back on IR. The team released him before the following season. The Jaguars scooped him up off of waivers. He hurt his wrist in preseason and went right back on IR. Jacksonville waived him the following spring, and no one picked him up or signed him.

Put together, those Wisconsin players were a big part of that draft turning out to be the team's worst draft of the decade.

 

Damn. You have a grudge memory longer than my wife !!!

 

Didn't help that two years later - with our head coach on the hot seat - we took another Wisconsin player at the top of the third round. He turned out to be another total bust.

We had not drafted anyone from Wisconsin since 1987. Then we took three of them in three years, and all three were utter disasters.

 

Via text, the Raiders select
Jabari Zuniga
DL
Florida

 

Via text, the Raiders select:
Amik Robertson
Cornerback
Louisiana Tech

 

@AxeMurderer
Dallas OTC