The NFL regular season has wrapped up and we are in the thick of the playoffs. Most of our teams' seasons are over, some for quite some time (we're looking at you Arizona and Oakland), and sights are now set on a fresh season.
The first step in moving on from the finished season is looking at where our teams will attempt to strengthen the rosters via the draft. The great thing about the NFL draft is that talent can be had virtually anywhere. Sure, the chances are slim, especially when you move into Day 3, but a halfway decent team who just missed the playoffs (Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Minnesota) can still find a game changer with a pick in the teens. Heck, two of the five rookies nominated for the Pepsi Rookie of the Year award were drafted in the second round (Nick Chubb and Darius Leonard), and a 3rd nominee wasn't even drafted (Philip Lindsay)!
This year, we felt like the time was right to jump headfirst into the NFL Draft with a mock of the first round. But we wanted to spice things up a bit. Should we each mock all 32 picks? Should we split the picks? Should we invite a couple of our dedicated fans to help us out?
Of course we went with the third option and are happy to have two people joining us who have become great friends of The Broken Plane! If you've listened to our podcast at all, you've likely heard us talk about Jonah. We're so grateful to have found him on Twitter and that he's stuck with us for as long as he has. Jonah was our first guest on the show, as well as our first repeat guest on the show! Now he's going to feature in this series of blog posts on the 2019 Mock Draft!
Rounding out the quartet is Campbell. I don't remember how we found him, or he found us, but maybe he does and can shed some light, but we're glad Twitter brought us together. Campbell has provided plenty of great topics for us to ramble on about, and even called in to the legendary TBP Hotline! We're excited to have Campbell help us out for this project as well!
How about a little information on format? The 32 first round draft picks will be divided equally among Jonah, Campbell, JB, and TK; 8 apiece. We'll be holding a "draft" of the 32 slots for each of us to select the teams we want to make selections for. After the Super Bowl is complete and the official draft order is set, the four of us will commence with the drafting. The pick will be made and a short explanation will accompany each selection in order to justify why it was made. Simple!
One last point that we feel merits attention. As some of you may be aware, each franchise does not own their first round pick in the upcoming draft. Chicago sent theirs to Oakland in exchange for Khalil Mack. Dallas sent another to Oakland in the Amari Cooper deal. And Green Bay owns New Orleans' choice after the Saints traded up for Marcus Davenport in 2018's draft. To work around this, our draft will specify those picks as separate from the selection of Oakland's or Green Bay's natural picks. For example, should Campbell decide he wants to draft for Oakland, he has the choice of selecting Oakland's natural pick (Oakland) or one of their acquired picks (Oakland via Chicago, Oakland via Dallas). A mock drafter is NOT required to select all picks for a franchise.
We hope you're all excited for the TBP Mock Draft. We plan to have our pick selections soon!
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