Over the last four months here on Blogging The Boys, we’ve looked at hundreds, if not thousands of mock drafts. You’ve seen mock drafts in front-page posts and in FanPosts, you couldn’t avoid seeing them in the signatures of some of the board members, you may have even created one yourself.
What most of these mocks had in common is that they had a built-in causality between the first, second and third picks. Causality is the relationship between an event and a second event, where the second event is understood as a consequence of the first. In the case of our mock drafts, that causality mostly revolves around three positions (Cornerback, defensive end, and safety) and could look like this:
- IF the Cowboys draft a corner in the first, THEN they’ll draft a defensive end in the second and THEN grab a safety in the third.