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Here’s how all seven rounds of the 2022 NFL draft could shake out for the New York Giants
The 2022 NFL draft is just days away, and your favorite NFL team is about to add tons of young talent to help improve their chances of success in the upcoming season.
Here’s how all seven rounds of this year’s draft could shake out for the New York Giants:
Here’s how all seven rounds of the 2022 NFL draft could shake out for the New York Jets
The 2022 NFL draft is just days away, and your favorite NFL team is about to add tons of young talent to help improve their chances of success in the upcoming season.
Here’s how all seven rounds of this year’s draft could shake out for the New York Jets:
Here’s how all seven rounds of the 2022 NFL draft could shake out for the Houston Texans
The 2022 NFL draft is just days away, and your favorite NFL team is about to add tons of young talent to help improve their chances of success in the upcoming season.
Here’s how all seven rounds of this year’s draft could shake out for the Houston Texans:
Here’s how all seven rounds of the 2022 NFL draft could shake out for the Detroit Lions
The 2022 NFL draft is just days away, and your favorite NFL team is about to add tons of young talent to help improve their chances of success in the upcoming season.
Here’s how all seven rounds of this year’s draft could shake out for the Detroit Lions:
Mock draft watch: Peter King of NBC Sports sees the Detroit Lions trading out of No. 32 in his final projections for 2022
One of the first wave of final 2022 NFL mock draft projections hit the presses on Monday, courtesy Peter King of NBC Sports. In his weekly Football Morning in America piece, King lays out his projection for the first round this Thursday.
First off, kudos to King for producing his final mock draft three days before everyone else. That takes both planning and chutzpah, not to mention trustworthy sources.
Now for King’s projections for the Lions.
At. No. 2, it’s Michigan EDGE Aidan Hutchinson. With Georgia EDGE Travon Walker going No. 1 to Jacksonville, this is the expected pick. We’re apt to see a whole lot of this exact duo projected at the top this week. King writes,
“A real Dan Campbell player,” one NFL GM told me about the steadiest player in this draft. Campbell got a lot of people to chuckle when he talked about wanting players who want to bite kneecaps. It was his way of saying he wants guys who love football, who don’t take off plays, who won’t allow the Lions to be downtrodden anymore. Ask scouts about Hutchinson and they’ll tell you that’s how he played every one of his 43 career games in Ann Arbor.
He does include this coda on Orgeon’s Kayvon Thibodeaux,
Final note: Some late buzz about the Lions being smitten with Kayvon Thibodeaux and strongly considering him here. I just can’t see them passing on Hutchinson.
With the No. 32 pick, King projects a trade. He foresees the Atlanta Falcons trading No. 43 overall and a second-round pick in 2023 to move up and select Ole Miss QB Matt Corral. His comments logically lay out the more speculative nature of the suggestion,
This is all about a team, Atlanta, believing in a quarterback this year, and investing a chunk of draft capital in him that isn’t cost-prohibitive. (I hear the Falcons like Corral.) If you think you might have a long-term quarterback and it costs you two second-round picks, is that really a major cost? No, it’s not. This pick is not something I’m convinced about. It’s more about the concept of it. If a team wants a quarterback but isn’t positive about this group, it can still invest in one. It’s a conservative investment, keeping in mind that quarterbacks don’t come cheap. If you really want Corral or Malik Willis or Desmond Ridder, wouldn’t you think a price of two second-round picks would be worth the risk?
Some interesting notes on the picks in between:
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Here’s how all seven rounds of the 2022 NFL draft could shake out for the Jacksonville Jaguars
The 2022 NFL draft is just days away, and your favorite NFL team is about to add tons of young talent to help improve their chances of success in the upcoming season.
Here’s how all seven rounds of this year’s draft could shake out for the Jacksonville Jaguars:
With the 2022 NFL draft just days away, Draft Wire editor Luke Easterling updates his first-round projections, with a handful of trades
It’s officially NFL draft week, which means it’s time for an updated look at how this year’s first round could shake out.
In reality, no first round is complete without a few surprises and a handful of trades, so that’s what you’ll find in our latest projection.
Who will be the first quarterback off the board, and how long will he have to wait? Who will the Jacksonville Jaguars take, sitting at the No. 1 overall pick for the second year in a row? Which top prospects will unexpectedly slide down the board?
Here’s how the first 32 picks of the 2022 NFL draft could go down:
*denotes projected trade
Touchdown Wire’s, Laurie Fitzpatrick reveals her mock draft as the first round comes closer.
This is the first draft in recent memory where there isn’t a consensus number one overall prospect. There are still guys rising and falling as each day passes.
In my first and only mock, I’ve looked at the value that each player adds to the team making the pick. There are only a few teams that are in a rebuild, this means that teams may not go with best available, but rather guys that help them win now.
That being said, there won’t be any trades in this mock draft. Just straight picks that fill teams’ needs.
Let’s start with the top pick. The Jacksonville Jaguars are on the clock!
The Cowboys give up two late picks, but get the versatile offensive lineman they want in the first round; a WR and DE follow soon after. | From @ToddBrock24f7
Dallas is currently sitting on nine picks heading into next week’s draft. But in this mock exercise from NFL.com’s draft analyst Chad Reuter, the Cowboys deal away two picks in order to move up in the first round to get the prospect they really want.
Now with a total of seven hypothetical picks, the team still addresses their thinnest spots: wide receiver, edge rusher, and linebacker. And they double up on the offensive line with two new additions to their Great Wall rebuilding project.
From the Panther, the Bison, and the Rebel to the Badger and the Buckeye, all the way to a pair of Tar Heels late, here’s a look at who Reuter picks to be wearing new silver and blue uniforms at rookie minicamp.
Check out the latest three-round projection for the 2022 NFL draft from Draft Wire editor Luke Easterling
We’re less than a week away from the 2022 NFL draft, and it still feels like anybody’s guess how this year’s top 10 is going to shake out.
While a consensus seems to have been building around Michigan’s Aidan Hutchinson as this year’s No. 1 overall pick, fellow edge defender Travon Walker from Georgia has been getting plenty of buzz at that spot in recent days.
This year’s wide-open race at the top is made even more intriguing by a mysterious quarterback class, with the likes of Liberty’s Malik Willis and Pitt’s Kenny Pickett expected to be the first passers off the board. The question is, how early do they hear their names called?
As we approach the home stretch, here’s an updated look at how the first three rounds of this year’s draft could go down, with a big surprise in the top five to get the chaos started early: