The NFL Draft is a seven-round, three-day event. Teams evaluate college prospects, hoping to identify talent and character to help build their organizations’ future. But what if the player pool was filled with active players and eligible college prospects?
Chad Reuter, draft analyst for NFL.com, tackled that very exercise with a seven-round mock draft.
Here are the draft parameters:
- Teams are listed based on the first-round order from the 2024 NFL Draft, restoring traded or forfeited picks to the original holders.
- The subsequent rounds are “snaked” to distribute talent evenly among the 32 franchises — that is, the order of Round 1 is reversed in Round 2, which is reversed in Round 3, and so on.