Mock drafts are a bit like Elvis Presley impersonators: They don’t tend to resemble the real thing as much as they start to look more like each other.
Here’s the risk in going off the grid a little bit with your forecasts: You risk looking uninformed. But it’s a risk we’re willing to take in some cases. Such as right here.
There were plenty of picks from the 2015 draft, even high ones, that few saw coming. Leonard Williams slipped to sixth after Brandon Scherff went fifth. Andrus Peat was a surprise to the New Orleans Saints at 13.