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HC Green presents our latest NFL mock draft of 2023. Sound off on social media to let us know your thoughts, and be sure to check our 2023 NFL Draft Central page to keep track of all of the offerings.
*Note: Miami forfeited its No. 21 overall selection for tampering.
** Projected trade
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The Huddle’s David Dorey has updated his 2023 NFL mock draft.
David Dorey’s latest mock draft of 2023 is now out. Sound off on social media and let us know what you think. Check out our 2023 NFL Draft Central page to keep track of all of the offerings.
*Note: Miami forfeited its No. 21 overall selection for tampering.
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There are plenty of OT prospects for the Colts in this draft.
The Indianapolis Colts may have an idea of what their starting offensive tackle duo will look like entering the 2023 NFL draft, but depth and competition are needed in the worst way.
With only Bernhard Raimann and Braden Smith as players with experience on the roster, the Colts also have Jordan Murray and Carter O’Donnell rounding out the room. That’s it. We should expect the Colts to add a free agent after the draft, but depth is needed.
It’s a pretty solid draft class for offensive tackles. A lot of them have starting experience and versatility on both sides of the line. It wouldn’t be a surprise if the Colts added two offensive tackle prospects with their nine selections.
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As we break down the prospects by round, think of the “rounds” as tiers and when I believe the team should begin to consider drafting them.
We also created big boards at the following positions:
Here’s a look at my big board for the offensive tackles as it relates to the Colts in the 2023 NFL draft:
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Harley Schultz presents our latest NFL mock draft of 2023. Sound off on social media to let us know your thoughts, and be sure to check our 2023 NFL Draft Central page to keep track of all of the offerings.
*Note: Miami forfeited its No. 21 overall selection for tampering.
** Projected trade
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A last look at where College Sports Wire has Ohio State players going in the first two rounds of the 2023 NFL draft. #GoBucks
We are officially just a week away from all the fun and drama of the 2023 NFL draft. This year it is taking place in Kansas City, Missouri, and you can bet that there will be plenty of Ohio State players walking across the stage and getting phone calls to start their professional careers.
Throughout this draft speculation season, we’ve been following along with College Sports Wire’s Patrick Conn as he dissects what he believes we’ll see unfold during the draft. He has published several first-round mock projections and just dropped his last one — this time through two rounds — prior to all the festivities we’ll begin to see next Thursday night.
Here is the last iteration of where Conn projects five Ohio State players to go during the first two rounds of the 2023 NFL draft.
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Kevin Hickey’s 2023 NFL mock draft includes several interesting projected trades.
Kevin Hickey presents our latest NFL mock draft of 2023. Sound off on social media to let us know your thoughts, and be sure to check our 2023 NFL Draft Central page to keep track of all of the offerings.
*Note: Miami forfeited its No. 21 overall selection for tampering.
** Projected trade
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Ryan Dodson brings you our latest 2023 NFL mock draft.
Ryan Dodson presents our latest NFL mock draft of 2023. Sound off on social media to let us know your thoughts, and be sure to check our 2023 NFL Draft Central page to keep track of all of the offerings.
*Note: Miami forfeited its No. 21 overall selection for tampering.
** Projected trade
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Taking a look at OT prospects for the Colts in each round of the draft.
The Indianapolis Colts are just under two weeks away from the start of the 2023 NFL draft where they’ll be looking to add talent and depth to the roster.
While the roster on paper features two starters at the offensive tackle positions in Bernhard Raimann and Braden Smith, the Colts likely will enter the draft looking to add some depth and competition to the room. It may come closer to selections later on Day 2 or more likely on Day 3, but the need is there.
It also wouldn’t be a surprise if the Colts added a veteran offensive tackle through free agency ahead of the draft just to bring in some extra competition to the room. As it currently stands, they only have four offensive tackles on the roster in Raimann, Smith, Jordan Murray and Carter O’Donnell.
Following this series of articles, we’ve also looked at these positions:
We’ll be tracking the Colts’ reported interest in the 2023 draft class so be sure to keep up with latest updates via our tracker.
Here’s a look at offensive tackle prospects who fits the Colts in each round of the draft:
The Huddle’s David Dorey has updated his 2023 NFL mock draft.
David Dorey’s updated mock draft of 2023 is now out. Sound off on social media and let us know what you think.
We’ll be unveiling several more mock drafts leading up to the real thing, so be sure to check back with our 2023 NFL Draft Central page to keep track of all of our offerings.
*Note: Miami forfeited its No. 21 overall selection for tampering.
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There are a lot of offensive tackles in the 2023 draft class. Here are the five (just five?) that Doug Farrar thinks will be plus-level NFL tackles.
Before we get into this particular list, I would like to state this for the record: The fact that I have just five offensive tackle prospects here, when I’ve had at least eight prospects on every other position list for the 2023 NFL draft, is not based on laziness.
It’s based entirely on volatility.
After comprehensive tape study, there were five college tackles in this class that I felt were slam-dunk next-level players at their positions in the NFL, and that’s taking into account a few fixes for each player.
Three college tackles — Georgia’s Broderick Jones, Northwestern’s Peter Skoronski, and North Dakota State’s Cody Mauch — could be decent-to very good outside, but I tend to think that each of them will work better inside.
To be even more clear, I’m not always in favor of the “Oh, just move a guy inside when you have questions about him” thing. When Rashawn Slater, Skoronski’s predecessor at Northwestern, came out for the 2021 draft, a lot of people looked at his measurables and insisted that he should kick inside. I could not have possibly disagreed more. Slater had the look of a left tackle, and that’s proven out during his time with the Chargers when he’s been healthy.
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It’s not a default thing for me, but it’s why the next prospect list, covering interior offensive linemen, will be relatively loaded.
There are other tackles, such as Syracuse’s Matthew Bergeron and Maryland’s Jaelyn Duncan, who may be able to stay outside, but not without a ton of work. In these cases, we may be talking about multi-year projects.
So. With all that said, if you need an offensive tackle in this draft class, and you want him to play pretty quickly outside, here are the five best such prospects for that particular scenario. It’s not the best class for such a need — not by far — but the guys at the top each have a lot to offer, albeit in radically different ways.
(All advanced metrics courtesy of Pro Football Focus, Sports Info Solutions, and Football Outsiders unless otherwise indicated).
(All prospect measurement percentiles courtesy of MockDraftable.com).
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