It's mock draft season and people are going to be doing their own. There's nothing wrong with media members doing mock drafts as long as they respect the simulator they're using. Unfortunately not everyone respects the simulator they use.
Patriots press pass did their first mock draft. They talked about respecting the board. Saying if a player they don't think will be there is there, they will pretend he's not. Showing not respect for their own simulator.
There's a flaw to that logic. They don't say okay we're going to pretend Mr. Irrelevant is still available here and we're going to take him. Thus they eliminate more players than necessary and screw up the board to respect the board.
If you don't trust the simulator, you don't use it. There are plenty of draft simulators out there. It's one thing to make sure you have the proper draft picks to Starr but it's another to ignore the boars.
I went through and there are 55 players thought of as potential first round selections and approximately 170 players viewed as day one or day two selections according to the concensus board from nfl mock draft database. First round prospects making it to round three is very realistic and Third round prospects being taken in round five is also realistic.
There are only 103 draft picks in the first two days. Do the math, that's 67 players that are going to be selected way past their projected round. The average is two rounds past their projection but going three or four rounds past is not impossible regardless of the improbability.
Respecting the board means respecting the simulator. If you don't respect the simulator, your mock is screwed. Take players where they fall. Imagine if Minnesota said they couldn't draft Andrew Booth Jr because he was a first round prospect and he shouldn't be there. It doesn't happen. People get passed on for different reasons but BPA picks eventually happen. Respect the board and take your guy.
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