As our opening week of fantasy football draft prep marches on, some of SI.com’s best NFL minds got together for a mock draft—12 teams went 12 rounds, drafting for a standard-scoring league. The positions: QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, TE, FLEX, DST, K and three bench spots. A star indicates a rookie player, of which 10 were drafted.
Given the NFL’s penchant for the Friday-afternoon news dump (or, for this week, the pre-Fourth-of-July news dump), some suspensions were announced after this draft took place—most notably, Packers RB Aaron Jones.
We’ll present the draft in its entirety, and then each owner will defend his or her team and explain the decision-making process.