Month: April 2018

Rather than do another mock draft for 2018, I’ve decided to review my picks from the mock draft I did last year.

I did some wheeling and dealing in last year’s mock, trading picks 20, 51 and 127 to Philadelphia for 14 and 77 in a vain attempt to land Christian McCaffrey. In a separate deal, I sent 101 to the 49ers for 109 and 161.

Here we go.

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Sources: The #Giants are in the process of trading for #Broncos P Riley Dixon. When Marquette King signed in Denver, he was on the trading block and NYG swooped in.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 20, 2018

The trade is finalized. Dixon for a conditional 7th round pick in 2019 https://t.co/ueUkyp0lDi

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 20, 2018

Ever since I started writing for this site a couple years ago, I’ve been dancing around mentioning a highly-apparent but difficult-to-describe phenomenon.  Simply put, NFL players have been changing dramatically in recent years. What was once a subtle distinction between players has grown to become a hard schism. And in the process, long-time NFL trends/ wisdoms have been overturned.

Continue reading Large-Scale Trends and the 2018 NFL Draft (part 1)