SMLE Draft Expert S33 Mock Draft

Draft Awards

Best Draft - Bears - RT Hunt (78 Star), MLB Cloud9 (67 Norm but great build, see below), DT Hendricks (69 Normal, DT Tanner (67 Normal), HB Warner (64 Star) and 4 other decent backups all made up a very solid draft class. I'd consider Hunt at 16 a steal considering he's the same build as McLendon at No2, HB Warner is a freak 91spd 240lb back and the DL was reloaded with some super quick young talent who'll move to 34DE. 

Worst Draft - Browns - It's very hard to judge this award as guys who trade away picks have lots of low overall players. But the Browns started with a lot of picks in the first 3 rounds. The 3 firsts became 2 as they traded to 6 to target RE Ecker who surprisingly went to the Seahawks at No3 which sent the coach into a spin and forced to pick BPA at no6 (see below). This was a good pick for obvious reasons but a bad one also as it's created an overload at WR with OBJ, Landry, Callaway, Higgins and now Hoskins there. The rest of the 1sts and 2nds were used on sub 70ovr players and didn't crack another dev again ( but great backups all over). 

Most Likely to Boom - WR Will Hoskins, 76ovr Superstar, Browns - It might seem confusing after the draft review above but with a decent OL, great coach and OBJ taking the best DB on the other side I expect Hoskins to be a great outside threat No2 WR and be the big play guy. 

Most Likely to Bust - HB Tony Snow, 78ovr X-Factor, Chargers - How does the best player in the draft who we all knew was going to be a god (and turned out to be the god of gods), who fell to a steal at pick 21, become most likely to bust? On a team with an existing X-Factor HB and a superstar backup with Joystick... that's how. Expect some team to get a good trade deal on HBs.

Steal of the Draft - RE Ellis Pace, 77ovr Normal, Lions - The Lions face a lot of flack for their side of the trade back and then a pash rush demon fell to them at Pick 20. The Eagles almost snapped him up the pick before but in the end the Lions turned pick2 into a Joystick HB, the leagues best punter and a top rookie DE.

Reach of the Draft - QB Wade Fisk, 54ovr Normal, Chargers - With the likes of Kiante Farley (63) Russel Trout (63), Todd Wallner (60) and Jared Carden (60) still on the board and taken in the 4th+ the Chargers used a 3rd round pick on the scrambler who turned out to be a not so great heir unapparant for Matt Ryan. Special Mention to QB Tom George, Falcons, but I think he'll be OK. 

Solid Pick - HB Jackie Borum, 63ovr Star, Panthers - They managed to turn the final pick of the 4th round into an sneaky good speedster in Borum. He'll handle kick and punt return duties (87 KR, 94 speed) and at age 21 and star dev will blossom into a good backup behind CMC. 

Daring Pick - MLB Oliver Cloud, 67ovr Normal, Bears - There were whispers of an A- A- B+ UDFA MLB floating around draft circles in the week before the draft and the Texans even made several deals in order to move up high in the 2nd round thinking noone else will have noticed. Then blam!!! The Bears take Cloud9 a few picks before the Texans. He might not start straight away in a 34 but a risky pick the likes that only a few coaches make.