With the turn of the calendar to June and training camps starting next month, the chatter is heating up like an Arizona sidewalk in the summer. Who will be the biggest bust? Who will make the biggest rookie impact? Which player's value is on the rise? Knowledge is power, of course, and knowing which players to draft and when to draft them is paramount to your championship hopes. So is practicing your strategies, and you can do that right here at NFL.com with our.Before you dive into your own mock draft madness, check out our first NFL.com experts draft for the 2019 season. The draft includes NFL.com folks including myself, Marcas Grant, Graham Barfield, Cynthia Frelund and Michael Florio, and some of our industry pals including Bob Harris (Football Diehards), John Paulsen (4for4), Jake Ciely (The Athletic), Jeff Ratcliffe (Pro Football Focus) and Brandon Marianne Lee (NFL.com, The Athletic).
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It's a 16-rounder and based on a PPR scoring system that rewards four points for touchdown passes and six points for all other touchdowns.Starting lineups require one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, one flex (RB/WR/TE), one kicker and one defense/special teeams units. There are no positional restrictions on bench players. I've also added a few notes on some of the more interesting picks and trends that I saw during the course of the mock, including some thoughts on my own picks (good or bad). Harris:, RB, New York Giants2. Paulsen:, RB, Dallas Cowboys3.
Ciely:, RB, Carolina Panthers4. Frelund:, RB, New York Jets5.
Ratcliffe:, RB, New Orleans Saints6. Barfield:, RB, Arizona Cardinals7.
Grant:, WR, Houston Texans8. Fabiano:, RB, Los Angeles Rams9. Lee:, RB, Pittsburgh Steelers10. Florio:, RB, Los Angeles ChargersNotes: This mock shows that the running back position will once again rule the first round of most drafts, as nine of the first 10 picks were backfield heroes. Bell went fourth, which is the highest I've seen him picked in mocks, while Johnson went sixth to Barfield. He's in the first-round conversation, even after a poor 2018.
The one notable pick was Gurley, who slid all the way to me at No. I've seen other drafts where he's fallen into the second and third rounds (that's simply like stealing), but I'm not as scared of his projected decline in touches as some others in the business. While I do think (who I picked up in the eighth round as insurance) will see work, I doubt a backfield committee will emerge.
Instead, I still expect to see Gurley touch the ball 18-22 times a game next season. Florio:, WR, Green Bay Packers12. Lee:, WR, New Orleans Saints13. Fabiano:, WR, Atlanta Falcons14. Grant:, WR, Oakland Raiders15. Barfield:, RB, Cincinnati Bengals16.
Ratcliffe:, RB, Minnesota Vikings17. Frelund: Jr., WR, Cleveland Browns18. Ciely:, RB, Cleveland Browns19. Paulsen:, TE, Kansas City Chiefs20. Harris:, WR, Pittsburgh SteelersNotes: The massive run on runners in the first round almost guaranteed that a run on receivers was imminent in Round 2.
That's what happened, as the first four picks and six of the 10 players were wideouts. Interestingly, Brown went ahead of OBJ among the two stud wide receivers on new teams., who has emerged into a locked-in second rounder in most mocks, was the first tight end off the board. Harris:, TE, Philadelphia Eagles22. Paulsen:, WR, Indianapolis Colts23. Ciely:, WR, Los Angeles Chargers24.
Frelund:, QB, Kansas City Chiefs25. Ratcliffe:, WR, Tampa Bay Buccaneers26. Barfield:, RB, Atlanta Falcons27.