Well, that’s it.
The end of mock drafts.
I hope you enjoyed this year’s mock draft, because this is the last one I’ll be doing.
What started as a fun exercise—sparking discussion on the boards, arguing over rankings, debating upside versus readiness—has slowly turned into something that doesn’t quite feel the same anymore.
And here’s the uncomfortable part:
It’s become too easy.
Too easy for teams to lean on these instead of doing their own scouting. Too easy to treat a mock draft as a shortcut rather than a conversation starter. Too easy for the actual chaos and uncertainty of draft day to get flattened into something that looks a little too orderly on paper.
That was never the intention.
And to be clear—I’m not pretending these are perfect. They aren’t. Far from it. There are misses, disagreements, and plenty of spots where another evaluator would (and should) see things differently.
That’s the point.
But when it starts to feel like the mock is replacing the work instead of complementing it, something gets lost.
And that’s the part I don’t like.
The draft is supposed to be messy. It’s supposed to be uncertain. It’s supposed to reward the teams willing to dig deeper, not the ones waiting for a list to follow.
So I’m stepping away from this format.
Not because it wasn’t fun.
Not because it didn’t generate discussion.
But because it might be making the process a little less real than it should be.
Thanks for reading, arguing, and engaging. The mocks will end. My snark will continue.
It’s been fun.
And maybe that’s the best place to leave it.