Once the Super Bowl is in the rear-view in any season, the offseason lasts about two minutes, even and especially for the team that wins it. The Kansas City Chiefs enjoyed their victory parade on Wednesday, but you can bet that before and after that thing wrapped up, general manager Brett Veach and his staff (who, by the way, absolutely nailed the 2022 draft) were back in their offices, talking with their scouts and scouting directors about the prospects in the 2023 draft.
The scouting combine starts at the end of February, and if your thoughts have been about the postseason, you are catching up with your coaches on all the prospects who participated in the post-postseason stuff like the Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl.
Basically, draft season is upon us. In volumes, and it will be from now on.
So, it’s time to expand our own vision of how this all might go. This is Touchdown Wire’s first two-round mock of 2023, as we turn our own attentions to the draft as our primary force of content. And while we have the trade most are predicting (the Indianapolis Colts trading up with the Chicago Bears for the first overall pick), there’s a lot of new names in this particular mock. Now, it’s as much about the guys you’ve been scouting in the weeds as it is about the stars up top.
Here’s one version of how the first two rounds of the 2023 draft might go.
(Note: The Miami Dolphins forfeited their first-round pick, which would have been the 21st overall selection, as punishment for tampering)