The NFL draft is nothing if not unpredictable. Months of evaluations and projections can all be thrown out the window with one pick.
All of that talk about player X not being worthy of a top-10 pick? He was just taken seventh overall. That team that was for sure targeting a defensive end? They just picked a wide receiver.
This is the sort of unpredictability that Eric Edholm’s most recent mock draft tries to project. As fans we have a habit of digesting similar mock drafts for months with slight changes to them, and we lose perspective of how realistic a mock draft like his could be, which has the Bengals landing Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins with their 11th overall pick:
I thought about an offensive lineman, but how often do chances to draft a developmental QB come up like this?