It’s Mock Draft Season! You may have noticed that every major sports publication has been pumping out mock NFL Draft after mock NFL Draft. Every single one tells a unique story. Each one its own masterpiece. But I wondered, what do all these mock drafts mean for fantasy football this year and beyond? And what if I could combine them all into one to best project the actual draft using a data-driven approach?
Using the Grinding The Mocks app (that pools data from hundreds of mock drafts), recent draft capital trends from over 30 recent mock drafts from my own research, and assessing team needs from more than a dozen sources I have put together a three-round 2022 NFL Mock Draft that could end up close to actual results based on the current projections of, well, the majority of the internet right now.
But what story does this data-driven 2022 NFL Mock Draft tell for each of the top incoming offensive skill players in this class? Let’s find out.