We've hit the final month of the 2021 NFL regular season, and college football's bowls are ready to kick off. This is when we really start to heat up the conversations around the 2022 NFL draft, and I'm kicking it off with my first mock draft of April's first round, predicting how the picks will fall and which teams land a potential franchise quarterback on Day 1.
It's not going to be a typical draft. Quarterbacks have gone No. 1 overall in six of the past seven drafts, but we might not even see one in the top 10 in 2022 for the first time since 2013, when EJ Manuel led the signal-callers at No.