Zone Reads

In less than 12 24 hours, the free agent period officially kicks off. Come midnight 4 PM EDT teams can “officially” make offers to free agents (after a three-day “you’re allowed to tamper but you’re not allowed to make offers or sign anyone” period, the NFL’s vague way of acknowledging that tampering exists while trying […]

BREAKING NEWS: The Vikings have traded Percy Harvin to the Seattle Seahawks for a first- and seventh-round pick this year and a mid-round selection next year. This would have to happen one day after my mock. Concerns about how this affects my attempt at pseudo-journalism aside, this means I’ll have to scrap large elements of […]

I published round 1 in four parts on Sunday. For those who missed it… well, it’s in the previous four posts in this blog. Go find and read it now. I’m going to try to knock out round 2 here in one post, with mostly short thoughts on the selections. Beginning with the late first […]

Now that we’ve stretched this mock draft for maximum page views (or, in truthfully, because my ADD kept me from writing about more than eight picks at a time and I wanted to have something up for our readership), here is the end of the first round. As always, you can read about Parts 1, […]

You can read part 1 and part 2 at those links. We kick off the second half of the first round…

First eight picks here. Onward…

I don’t have any sort of special insight or team connections to base this draft on. It’s just a combination of player evaluation, team needs, and, if I’m feeling saucy, how likely I think a team’s management is to blow the pick.