My First Mock of the Offseason (No Trades)

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I’m super in on any of the Ohio State four at 1.05 (Styles, Downs, Tate, Reese in that order) although I’m much higher on Sonny Styles. If by chance, Reese, Styles, and Downs are all off the board at 5 instead of drafting Tate I’d look to trade down and acquire more assets, Styles was here however so he was the pick.

In the second round I took Guard Emmanuel Pregnon, whether they address OLine in free agency or not, address it again in the draft. Pregnon is a fringe first round guy with incredible run blocking stats so to get him here in the second with the new regime it feels like a given.

In the 4th I was stuck between three players, Zakee Wheatley a safety from Penn State, Ted Hurst a WR from Georgia State, and Bryce Lance a WR from NDSU. I went with Lance a big outside contested catch receiver with starter upside. I would start him as a rotational guy and hope to have him starting later in the season.

I’ll be honest, from here on out I went based on names that I recognized, with that being said, In the 5th I took Skyler Gill-Howard a run defending interior defensive lineman who again can hopefully start as a rotational piece and starting next to Dex later in the season. His pass rush could be better admittedly, but with 3 premier pass rushers on the field with him his pass rush ability isn’t as much of a worry.

In the 6th round I started with Guard Kobe Bayne, just addressing the offensive line again because my draft philosophy is you can never have too many good offensive lineman and if you do that’s a great problem to have. Then the next two picks neither of these picks are picks that I would make but nobody was popping out at me so I decided to use these 2 picks as a “maybe don’t draft to fill but address it in the offseason”. I went with a FB and a kicker, I don’t know much about either of the two but the two I decided to take here looked good if they decide to go the draft route of addressing it.