Mock drafts are always entertaining. Mock drafts with trades in them, however, are an entirely different animal.
It’s difficult enough to predict where every player lands in the NFL Draft. Adding which teams will trade with one another is another level of absurdity, which is why most mocks shy away from them. But we see more trades now than we ever have during drafts due to the rookie wage scale making higher draft picks less of a financial risk.
As the draft gets closer though, we have more and more draft analysts prepare full seven-round mock drafts, and that is what we’ll be looking at today.