Our latest projection has four first-round QBs, including two headed to the NFC South, one to the Commanders and one to the Titans.
Last year, in a final moment of mock-draft panic, I called editor Mitch Goldich just before midnight and asked that Trey Lance and Mac Jones be swapped in my post. I originally had Lance going third to the 49ers because, the reasoning went, Lance would add a unique dynamic to Kyle Shanahan’s offense—a kind of Robert Griffin III–plus-plus—that would lend itself to concepts that would force defenses to fight against themselves to solve the scheme.