Over the Thanksgiving weekend, my family and I took in the latest movie from Disney, “Encanto.”
It was a wonderful evening and the kids truly enjoyed the movie. However, given how my broken brain works, two moments from the film had my mind thinking of mock drafts, of all things.
First was during the moments in the film where two of the main characters struggled to make sense of a vision, seared into broken chards of glass. A moment captured in time, but open to multiple interpretations.
Second was when one of those characters was trying, struggling, to sift throw pouring sand to pick up those chards. An almost futile attempt at piecing things together.
Both of those moments encapsulate putting together a mock draft any earlier than say ten minutes before the first round actually starts.
Still, we love the content, so we forge on. This is just that, a snapshot of teams captured in time, as the football world emerges from the Thanksgiving holiday. There are a lot of decisions to be made, and moves to be finished, before the draft this spring. Sitting here right now, here is one snapshot of how that first round could play out, with 32 selections sure to be wrong come April.
Heck, even the draft order might be different come this time next week.
The draft order is set by current winning percentage within each conference, as tracked here by Tankathon. The order assumes that Carson Wentz will hit the necessary snaps threshold for the Philadelphia Eagles to secure a third first-round selection.