2023 NFL mock draft: Bowl games, NFL season’s end, and team needs

With bowl games around the corner, and the final few games of the NFL season starting, it’s time for Doug Farrar to do another mock draft!

Bowl games and the College Football Playoff are approaching, and the NFL has gone into the final month of the regular season. So, it’s time to put even more thought into what NFL teams would like to do in the 2023 draft with the best available players from the NCAA feeder stream.

NFL teams have been doing their due diligence all season on those prospects, and now, things ramp into high gear. The scouting combine will arrive with a crash in about two months, pro days will happen right after, and before you know it, the draft will be here to provide hope to the hopeless, and bring even more quality to those teams who have done it right to date.

So, with that in mind, here’s one way the first round of the 2023 NFL draft could go.

(The Miami Dolphins, who would have the 24th pick otherwise if the season ended today, forfeited that pick as part of the NFL’s punishment for tampering.)

(All advanced metrics courtesy of Pro Football Focus, Sports Info Solutions, and Football Outsiders unless otherwise indicated).

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