 The 2021 NFL Draft is just two weeks away in Cleveland, Ohio, and on this show we're going to give you our first round mock draft. Hello, everyone. Thank you guys for joining us. My name is Asan Convy, host of this channel that we like to call Time to Football. Glad you guys are joining us, especially if you guys are premiering this as we show this on Thursday nights. If you guys are premiering this and joining us in the chat, how you guys doing? I'm gonna be joining you guys in the chat as well, and just to let you know that I'm gonna be joining you guys in the chat, I will type an irrelevant word just to let you know that I'm there. Okay, so let me type the word out right now. Boom. Okay, so I'm in the chat. So as we are reading off this mock draft, please let us know your thoughts in your opinions, in your analysis, and let us know if you agree or disagree with this player going to whatever team we read off. 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If you've been a fan of Time to Football for the last year, you know that he joined us for things like the mock draft, NFL draft related stuff. Well, we had a recording of this mock draft with him a couple of days ago, and the audio on that ended up being pretty booty. So we're just gonna go ahead and scrap that footage and just do a solo mock draft. And maybe next week, we could get Mikey on the show if he has the time. Why is there a red mark on my collar bone right here? Those hickeys, man. I'm telling you, they're savage. But yes, the mock draft, a couple of things to note before I get into this first round mock draft, and this is very, very important, okay? There is no such thing as a perfect mock draft. Just doesn't exist, okay? I know this isn't gonna be right 100%. I might get five to 10 players correct. I mean, last year, we got 10 players correct out of 32. We got Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert, Mackay Bekton, Tua Tugaviloa, Justin Jefferson, Patrick Queen, Derek Brown, Braynay Ayuk, Chase Young, and Jeff Acuda. We called correctly to which team was gonna draft them. So maybe this year, we'll get another 10. Maybe it'll only be five. I don't know. But please keep that in mind when you're watching this mock draft. Okay, there's no reason to get upset if your favorite team does not draft the player that you want. I'm a Falcons fan, and I would love if the Falcons traded back to acquire more picks, and they drafted Micah Parsons in the top 10, and then they traded back into the first round and get Najee Harris. That would be a dream scenario, but I had to be realistic, and I had to put my bias and my pride aside and just go off of what I'm hearing, okay? So this mock draft is based off of what I'm hearing off of the rumors and the NFL community, and off of the NFL news. Okay, this is no way in shape or form supposed to be biased or anything of that nature, because I know a lot of people when they watch mock drafts, they think, one, you're dumb for saying that a team or a player is gonna go to their favorite team, and two, you have no idea what you're talking about. How can you get upset about something that hasn't happened yet? So no need to get upset, keep it with an open mind. This is just based off of what I'm hearing, and pick by pick, I'm gonna give you my thought process if I were that general manager, what that person would do. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, there's gonna be trades in this mock draft, so it's gonna be lots of fun. First off, with the number one pick, let's get right into it. With the first pick, we have the Jacksonville Jaguars drafting, and actually what's really cool about these lights behind me, I can change it to whatever color corresponds with the team that I am talking about. So let's turn it to a Jacksonville Jaguars teal for you, Shotcon, because you're gonna have a new franchise quarterback in Trevor Lawrence as your number one overall pick. I mean, there's not much to really say about this other than that, okay, Urban Meyer would not have taken this job if it weren't for Trevor Lawrence being available as the number one overall pick. I think if the Jaguars have the number two pick, no way is Urban Meyer taking this job. He wants Trevor Lawrence to be his franchise quarterback and he's gonna build this team around him. One of the best prospects to come out into the draft in a very long time. Trevor Lawrence is the number one pick by the Jaguars. So what we're gonna do is, as we are reading off the players and the picks, I'm gonna have a draft board on my computer off screen and I'm gonna be updating it and you guys can keep along with that. So I already typed in Trevor Lawrence's name, as you can see right here. And this is an order of which team is gonna be drafting in which pick. So we already have Trevor Lawrence as the number one overall pick. Now we go to the number two pick with the New York Jets. And just like Trevor Lawrence, I think it's becoming more and more apparent that with the New York Jets, as I'm turning this setting out to green, you're gonna have Zach Wilson be the next franchise quarterback of the Jets. General Manager Joe Douglas has just come out and said he wouldn't have traded Sam Donald if he knew the position that he was in the NFL draft. If they had a later pick, they would have kept Donald. The fact that they traded him away and he said what he said about having a high draft pick, you're gonna go with a quarterback and Zach Wilson is slowly, I think at this point is probably given that he's the number two quarterback in the NFL draft. Some people argued that maybe Justin Fields, but to a lot of NFL personnel, they believe that it is Zach Wilson. So Zach Wilson is going to be a New York Jets and I'm gonna be switching this over real quick so you guys can follow along. If you guys are watching this on YouTube, that Zach Wilson has the attention of the New York Jets and will be the number two pick. Number three, the San Francisco 49ers. Oh my gosh. Okay, so this is rough because I struggled with this for a very long time. I did not know whether they were gonna draft Mack Jones, whether they were gonna draft Justin Fields. I said last week that they were gonna draft Mack Jones. That's what the rumors are saying. And this was before Justin Fields' second pro day that Mack Jones was gonna be a San Francisco 49er. It's not what I want to see. I would really love to see Justin Fields as a 49er, but I believed last week past tense that Mack Jones was gonna be the 49ers quarterback. And then I really thought about it and I just, I don't know. My logic in my brain cannot get past the fact that Justin Fields is gonna get passed up on. And a guy that got so much or had so much success in college under big pressure situations, a good dual threat quarterback, athletic as heck, could make this 49ers offense dynamic. And after a second pro day, I feel like the 49ers fall in love with Justin Fields and they draft him. And number three overall, I know, I know, and I'm still debating on this. I don't know. When I said that the mock draft can't be 100% perfect, this is probably where it's gonna start to go downhill. Because if Justin Fields just gets passed on and Mack Jones becomes a 49er, which could happen, because Mike Shanahan and Kyle Shanahan favored those pocket passers, then this whole draft is gonna get messed up. This number three pick is so important in determining the trajectory of the rest of the first round. Reasons why Mack Jones could be a 49ers, because Mike Shanahan and Kyle Shanahan when they were in Washington, and they wanted to draft Kirk Cousins in the fourth round. Well, they had to make the general manager at the time pretty happy, because he traded all these draft picks. So they went ahead and got RG three with the number two pick, but they knew that Kirk Cousins was gonna be better and they drafted him later on in the fourth round. Anyways, it turned out that they were correct that Kirk Cousins ended up having a better career. So I could see them getting Mack Jones, but I'm gonna go ahead and say for the sake of this mock draft that they're gonna get Justin Fields. So let's switch over to our draft board and say that Justin Fields has been taken. So now that is three quarterbacks. By the way, I don't know why this green line is outlining it. Don't mind it. But there are three quarterbacks now taken in the top three picks, which is expected by many. Now this is where it gets interesting. The number four pick, the Atlanta Falcons. A lot of teams are talking about trading up with the Falcons to get that number four pick. But I don't think that there's gonna be a suitable team that is willing to trade up unless Justin Fields were to get it passed on. Because if Fields gets passed on by the 49ers, you have teams like the Broncos that are willing to give up whatever they need to give up to go get Justin Fields as their quarterback. However, with a fourth pick, if Justin Fields being taken at number three, I don't think anyone would really, besides maybe like the Carolina Panthers would want to trade up with the Atlanta Falcons to get Kyle Pitts, because that's the next best player available. But after trading for Sam Dono, I don't think that the Carolina Panthers would want to give up more draft picks. So I think that the Falcons are going to stay put and they're going to get Kyle Pitts as their next tight end. So Hayden Hurst is their tight end for the time being. And people would make question, well, why do you want to get a tight end when you have Hayden Hurst? He was pretty decent last year. Number one, people have to realize the concept of depth, okay? Because Kyle Pitts could be a good wide receiver or a tight end. Just put the label wide receiver right next to his name, if it makes you happy. And number two, he's the best player available. And people are saying he's a good tight end, one of the best tight ends to come into the draft in a very long time. You cannot go wrong with Kyle Pitts. No one's going to call that a dumb pick by the Atlanta Falcons. So I have the Falcons at number four, taking Kyle Pitts. Let's show you our updated draft board and type in Kyle Pitts' name. All right, now we're over at number five. Now if the 49ers drafted Mack Jones, then I feel like the Broncos would trade up to go get Justin Fields with the Falcons leaving the Kyle Pitts available. And the Bengals would now be in the decision of the conversation to go get Kyle Pitts. With Pitts gone and the Bengals needing offensive line help, also needing wide receiver help as well, I'm going to say that they go down the route of getting a solid wide receiver on this team. And they're going to draft Jamar Chase from LSU. And let me give you my explanation on why they would pass up on an offensive tackle like Sewell. Jamar Chase played his college football with Joe Burrow. That's it. That's all you really need to know. Other than that, Jamar Chase has been compared to someone like Julio Jones, one of the better prospects in the NFL draft at wide receiver since Julio Jones didn't even need to play last year to prove that he's one of the best players in this draft and a very good pass catcher. Jamar Chase could be a pro bowler his first season in Cincinnati with Joe Burrow back and healthy hopefully by the start of the season. We still don't know about that yet. But let's go ahead and change or update the draft board. I will not be surprised if they go with Sewell. Now you've got the number six pick. And this is the Miami Dolphins. The Miami Dolphins are in a very interesting spot. They could go wide receiver. A lot of people are saying because of the weapons that they want for Tutokawa Loa, but I feel like with Will Fuller being signed by the Dolphins to a big deal, I think they're going to pass up on a wide receiver unless Jamar Chase were to fall to them. Then I think they would take Chase, but I don't think they would take Devonte Smith. Instead, I think that they would give protection to Tutokawa Loa. And this is where you would see Penae Sewell from Oregon get drafted by the Dolphins. I think it was something ridiculous where it was maybe one sack, two sacks, or maybe no sacks at all in his college career or since he was a sophomore in college that Penae Sewell gave up. So it's something ridiculous. I don't know the stat. 100% of someone knows, please comment below so let us know. But I think that Sewell is going to be the next offensive tackle for the Miami Dolphins is not going to be a bad choice at all. Get that good bookend for Tutokawa Loa, improve that offensive line. Let's look over to our draft board now and update the number six pick with Penae Sewell being taken. All right. Now this is where it's interesting, ladies and gentlemen. So you see here at number seven. Okay, we've got the Detroit Lions on the board. This is going to be very, very interesting. Remember how I mentioned that there's going to be trades in this NFL drafts? Well, the first trade that we predict to happen in this mock draft will be with the Detroit Lions who have come out and said that they are willing to trade back in the draft to acquire more draft picks. That's what was said by the Lions, which team is willing to trade up and which player would they trade up for? We had three quarterbacks taken in the first three picks. The fourth quarterback taken in this draft could be either Tray Lantz or Mack Jones. Quarterbacks could be going fast. If you want to jump ahead of someone like the Carolina Panthers who are at number eight, you want to trade with the Detroit Lions and a team that is saying that they're willing to do an RG three type trade and trade whatever picks they need to trade is the Washington football team. They are willing to trade whatever it takes to go up to the number seven pick so that they could draft Tray Lantz. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, that's not something that I would do if I was a general manager. But the Washington football team, according to multiple reports, love Tray Lantz and they really, really do need a quarterback for the future. Lantz can run a pro style offense. Maybe that's something that Ron Rivera loves. And I think he would fit in just nice with the Washington football team as well. So Tray Lantz with the trade with the Lions, Washington could move up to acquire Tray Lantz from pick 19 to pick seven. And the Washington football team could give up a first round or a second round or a first round or next year. They're willing to do whatever it takes to jump up 12 spots. Okay, so keep that in mind about this trade. Let's go ahead and switch the names on the draft board because I have the lines picking seven. But if I switch this over to Washington via Detroit, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and highlight this blue just to let you guys know that it indicates a trade. All right, so let's type in Tray Lantz right here. But what that means is that we got to scroll down to number 19 and switch out Washington's name with the Lions and the Washington. Perfect. So now the Lions have the 19th pick. There were multiple options that the Lions could go with with that seven pick. They really do need a wide receiver with Devontae Smith still on the board. But I'm just going to go ahead and say that the trade back because the offer that the Washington football team is willing to make is too good to give up. Number eight, now the Carolina Panthers are in a very interesting spot because you could get a quarterback because if you don't have faith in someone like Sam Darnold, who's on maybe a two-year proof-it deal if you were to pick up his fifth option, Teddy Bridgewater is under conversation as well of potentially getting traded. But I feel like that the Panthers at this point are content with getting or passing up on a quarterback and getting offensive line help. And the next best offensive line on that board is Rashaan Slater from Northwestern. Penae Sewell has already been taken by that offense. Slater is going to be a good player worthy of a top 10 pick, not a bad pick at all. Just keep on improving that offense in the best way possible. Okay, you've already got your weapons. You don't necessarily need another breakout watch receiver in this year's draft like Devontae Smith. You have one of the best running backs in the NFL and you just trade it for another quarterback just to see what he's got. So at this point, if you really want to improve the offense, you've got to go with that offensive line and you've got to get Rashaan Slater. So let's go ahead and update that for you guys. At number eight, the Panthers are selecting Rashaan Slater. Very, very interesting that we've got the Denver Broncos on the board because they didn't make as much of a push as I expected for someone like Drew Locke. I expected that they would earn a backup or a veteran quarterback to compete with Drew Locke because I kind of expected that that they would sign someone in free agency. Maybe they made some offers out there. I don't know, but they did not get their guy. So if you need a quarterback still at this point and you don't have faith in Drew Locke, which the Broncos do not have, they're going to get the next best quarterback available, probably the only remaining quarterback that is worthy of being drafted in the first round. And that is Mack Jones from Alabama. If he falls this late at the 49ers pass up on him, I don't feel like the Broncos will need to rush at any point to get Mack Jones. I think naturally he's just going to continue to fall and Mack Jones could fall in the laps of John Elway and George Patton and the general manager in the Denver Broncos. But also keep in mind with George Patton on the Broncos team, he has connections with the Minnesota Vikings. When he was with the Minnesota Vikings, the quarterback at the time was Teddy Bridgewater. If before the draft, they make a trade for Teddy Bridgewater, then you can expect them maybe passing up on Mack Jones at this point and going in the direction of, let me see what other needs they need. They need offensive tackle needs, they need cornerback needs, so then you could get Patrick Sertan, they need a tight end as well, kind of sort of just to pair up with no offense. But I think if Teddy Bridgewater is not traded from the Panthers to the Broncos, if George Patton is not interested, then you could see Mack Jones being in Denver Broncos. So let's go ahead and update the draft board, Denver Broncos, who got your quarterback in Mack Jones. Oh, Jerry World, Cowboys, number 10, very interesting. This could be a team that has a lot of draft picks, by the way, and could trade up in the draft if they really, really wanted to. According to multiple reports, they're very interested, or Jerry Jones is at least, he loves, absolutely loves Kyle Pitts, he's infatuated with him. But the talk around the NFL, a lot of general managers are saying that it would be dumb for Jerry Jones to trade up, or for any team to trade up to get Kyle Pitts, he's a very good player, but he's not worthy of necessarily being traded up for, especially for the Cowboys if you're at number 10, trying to get up to like maybe number four. So I think the Cowboys are content with number 10. And I know it's not the sexiest pick in the world, but you're going to have to swallow your ego, and going to have to build that defensive line, because you desperately need depth on that defensive line. And I feel like the best edge rusher at this point, it's Quitty Pay from Michigan, could do some damage for that defensive line to pair them up with DeMarcus Lawrence. So I have the Cowboys at number 10 drafting Quitty Pay as the first edge rusher off the board, updating that real quick on our wonderful Google Sheets. And again, let us know your thoughts in your comments down below, as we were talking about this mock draft, but that kind of concludes your top 10 right there. The Giants are in conversations of getting more weapons on that offense. So Devante Smith is still available on this board, not because he's a bad player, just because these other teams need other needs. The Giants cannot pass up on one of their biggest needs being linebacker. And the best linebacker in this draft is Micah Parsons. I don't see them passing up on Micah Parsons at all. This guy is a beast. He's athletic. He's a stud. He's fast. He's strong. He's physical. Do not pass up on Micah Parsons because what last year told us was that Devin White, who was a top five pick by the Tampa Big Buccaneers, is the anchor of a defense, a linebacker. If you have a superstar linebacker on that team, they can do some damage for that defense. And Micah Parsons could be that guy. You've already improved that offense so much throughout free agency. And then the second round, if you have some wide receivers available, maybe someone like Elijah Moore could be available round two pick 10. Yeah, draft Elijah Moore in the second round. But as of now, do not take Devante Smith. You already have enough weapons. You could use more, but you have enough for the time being. Bolster that defense and get Micah Parsons. Update that on the draft board. Number 12. Oh man, this is pretty apparent at this point that Nick Siriani and the Philadelphia Eagles really, really, really do need some weapons on their team. Devante Smith has been passed up outside of the top 10, fell out of the top 10, and he's still on the board. You would think that the Eagles are not going to pass up on Devante Smith? Yeah, they're definitely not. They're going to grab Devante Smith, the second wide receiver off the board. He's going to be a next big weapon for Jalen Hertz. They desperately need that. I know Jalen Rager in that experiment could still work out maybe, but if you want to go to wide receiver one, maybe even wide receiver two of Jalen Rager just goes off. I don't know. They threw to really no one. Zach Hertz is on his way out. Dallas Goddard is going to be the pretty much the only reliable weapon at this point. You're going to have to get another wide receiver Devante Smith. Let's go ahead and update that on our draft board. Devante Smith from Alabama has been taken. The Chargers at number 13, I think the biggest win for them is if Panay Sule can somehow fall to the Chargers, they would absolutely love that. They would, but it's not going to happen. I think at 13, the experiment with Chris Harris, Jr., being signed from the Broncos to the Chargers did not work out. They still need some secondary help and take the best cornerback, in my opinion, available. It's between him, Patrick Surtan and JC Horne. I think it's Patrick Surtan from Alabama that's going to be taken. So the second straight Alabama prospect is going to be drafted by the LA Chargers. They address the cornerback situation. Chris Harris, like I said, is a disappointment that could also use an edge rusher or a safety and offense a tackle like we mentioned, but I'm going to go ahead and say that they're going to get Patrick Surtan to bolster their secondary. So let's go over to our draft board. Patrick Surtan, the second disrespect to his dad, has been taken. Number 14, the Minnesota Vikings. This is where it gets very, very interesting. The Vikings are on the clock at 14. What do the Vikings need? They need an edge rusher. They need a corner, right? Surtan has been taken. You could take JC Horne. But a trade offer is going to be made by the Chicago Bears to move up from number 20 to number 14. And let me explain why. The Bears are going to make a deal with the Minnesota Vikings. They are tired. General Manager Ryan Payson, that whole entire crew, the franchise is tired of disappointment after disappointment on offense. They want that offense to be great. They're going to trade up six spots and whatever they need to take to take the next best wide receiver. The first tier of wide receivers is almost gone. The last one available of that first tier wide receivers is Jalen Waddle from Alabama. The third straight Alabama process to be taken at pick number 14 by the Chicago Bears, Jalen Waddle. Team them up with Alan Robinson. There's no guarantee that Alan Robinson is going to stick around. And Jalen Waddle could be your wide receiver one one day. But they want to help that offense out so much because it's just been a disappointment at this point for the last three years, I would say four years, even if you want to talk about before Matt Nagy's time. So let's go ahead and update our draft board. We've got number 14, the Bears trading up via Minnesota to acquire Jalen Waddle. Let's go ahead and mark this as blue to let you guys know that it is a trade Jalen Waddle to the Chicago Bears. And let us know your thoughts. You agree with that? You disagree? Could you see it happening? Vikings via Chicago. And they fall down to number 20, the Vikings do. But I think they're content with that. It's not a big deal for them. At number 15, the New England Patriots. Okay, so if Jalen Waddle somehow falls to number 15, I think that they're going to continue to bolster their offense and get a wide receiver in Jalen Waddle. But with a Patriots, the interesting thing is you spend all this money in free agency on that offense with Hunter Henry, John Smith, Kendrick Bourne, Nelson Aguilar. And yeah, you send some defensive pieces as well with Devanka Chow, Henry Anderson, Matthew Judon. But you can never have enough rotational defensive players. And speaking of those superstar linebackers, if Bill Belichick wants to learn from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who have his former quarterback in Tom Brady, that team thrived after having a superstar linebacker in Devin White. Micah Parsons is gone. Bill Belichick and the Patriots now can draft a defensive piece that is going to be a good player for years to come. And Jeremiah Owawusu, Karamoa, hopefully I pronounced that correctly from Notre Dame. The linebacker, they need a linebacker. They did sign Kyle Vandoy, but they need a linebacker. You can never have enough defensive pieces. And they would take the best water seeker if somehow some way Jalen Waddle would have fall, but I don't feel like that's going to happen. I feel like the Patriots are instead going to get Jeremiah Owawusu, Karamoa. So let's go ahead and update our draft board. And it seems like a, you know, this kind of pick seems like a Bill Belichick kind of pick as I'm typing this out, just because it's not like a flashiest pick, but somehow some way he's going to develop him into a superstar potentially in the NFL. You never know. So Jeremiah Owawusu, Karamoa to the New England Patriots. Number 16, the Arizona Cardinals. Okay. So this is very, very interesting. The Cardinals do not have a third round pick or a fourth round pick in this draft. And I think they would love to trade back to acquire some picks. If you're Steve Kahn and Cliff Kingsbury, that's what I would be thinking. You need some help at the cornerback position to replace Patrick Peterson, but there are some good cornerbacks available later on. However, the best quarterback available at this point, I would say is JC Horne. Some people would say that he's the best quarterback in the whole draft. Well, the Titans, I would say more than the Cardinals need a quarterback so much more desperately. And they're willing to trade up because they have multiple draft picks that they could give the Cardinals to draft and what they believe is to be the best quarterback in the draft. So I'm going to have the Titans trading up to go acquire JC Horne from South Carolina, the son of Joe Horne. And like I mentioned, they need to replace a Dory Jackson. They have a big hole to fill at the cornerback position. And I think that the Titans are going to move up with the Cardinals to number 16 from number 22 to acquire JC Horne. Let's update that real quick so you guys can get a visual of this, the Titans number 16 via Arizona and they acquire JC Horne. And that means that the Cardinals are going to drop to number 22, but they're going to have additional picks too, whether it be in the second round, the third round, whatever the deal is that the Titans make with the Cardinals, it's going to happen hopefully because this, like I said, it's going to be 100% perfect. That was a joke, by the way. So let's go ahead and update that to Blues to keep you guys in the loop that it is a trade. This is a dream scenario for the Las Vegas Raiders. The Raiders don't need the sexiest pick in the draft. They've made sexy picks some off the wall, some questionable, huh? Kind of like when they drafted Cleveland Farrell and picks like that. They spent so much time on their defense and trying to get these sexy picks, like Henry Rugs and all that, you've got to make the safe pick, you've got to go with your gut, you've got to get offensive line help. And the rumors are out there and the news are out there that the more tape that they see on Elijah Vera Tucker from USC, the more that the Raiders love this guy. So I have the Raiders selecting Elijah Vera Tucker from the offensive tackle position with the 17th pick in the NFL draft. And if they don't like Vera Tucker, I think they're going to go with another offensive tackle, maybe Tevin Jenkins and a lot of other players out there, Alex Leatherwood, Jalen Mayfield. But I think after losing Gabe Jackson, after losing Trent Brown, you've got to make some strides on that offensive line. Elijah Vera Tucker is going to be the next Las Vegas Raiders. So let's go ahead and update that Elijah Vera Tucker. Number 18, this is the second of the draft picks for the Miami Dolphins. By the way, I just want to go ahead and mention that the Dolphins did a very, very good job this past season in finessing everyone. I mean, when they traded back from number three to number 12, and then they traded back up to number six, they essentially got an extra first rounder out of that trade. And good job by Brian Flores, who's been killing it as a Miami Dolphins head coach in that front office as well. But number 18, the Miami Dolphins, you already addressed your offense in the first round, go defense at this point. And I have the Dolphins at number 18, taking the next best available edge rusher, which is a big need in Jalen Phillips from Miami stays in Miami. And you're going to have to fill that hole after losing Devon Gacheau to the New England Patriots. So Jalen Phillips, some people would say that he has the best and most most athletic edge rusher in this draft. Some people say it's Quidipay. That's why I have Cowboys taking them higher, but eight picks later than Quidipay, the next edge rusher that is going to be taken by the Miami Dolphins, Jalen Phillips. Let's type Jalen Phillips' name right here. Now, the interesting number 19 pick by the Detroit Lions. So you remember, they traded back with the Washington football team to go in the spot. I'm going to explain why right here. The deal was too good by the Washington football team to pass up. And the Lions desperately needed wide receiver. And even though Devon DeSmith is so good and you can't pass up on them, you're going to get some additional picks later on, whether it be in this draft and next year's draft, to get more offensive pieces around you. This is a rebuilding process for Dan Campbell and the Detroit Lions. So instead of getting Devon DeSmith at the wide receiver position, instead get the next best available wide receiver. And that is the guy from Florida, Cadarius Tony. Devon DeSmith compared to Tony. Yeah, obviously tier one, tier two, without question. But with Tyrell Williams as your best wide receiver, you're going to have to go with wide receiver first round. And it could be between Cadarius Tony or Ron Dale Moore. I feel like that the Lions in my eyes would want to get the next best available wide receiver. And in my eyes, I feel like that's Cadarius Tony. So number 19, Cadarius Tony, a weapon for Jared Goff is going to get drafted by the Detroit Lions. Number 20, this is also the result of another trade. And that is the Minnesota Vikings traded back with the Chicago Bears. Like we mentioned with the Vikings earlier, they need an edge rusher. They need a cornerback with them signing Patrick Peterson. I think they're okay with addressing the cornerback position in the second round if they need to. But for the first round, edge rusher is the bigger hole to fill on this Vikings defense. And that's why I have them taking the other Miami edge rusher, Gregory Rousseau, the defensive end as a priority for the Minnesota Vikings. So Greg Rousseau is going to be with the Vikings. Let's go ahead and update that. 21, the Indianapolis Colts, oof, with the Seattle Seahawks. And this is a confession just to let you guys know. I love Chris Ballard and John Schneider so much as general managers. The way that they finesse and the way that they sign free agents to all these great deals, the way that they drafts as well. I just love it. And Chris Ballard, I believe, is one of the better general managers in the NFL. And I think that they're going to go with another great pick. A guy that falls on their lap is going to be the next best offensive tackle that is Christian Derisaw is going to be the next offensive tackle for the Indianapolis Colts. This guy's from Virginia Tech and they need a replacement for Anthony Costanza who retired earlier this off season. Carson Wentz is their quarterback and Carson Wentz is an investment and Frank Reich knows this more than anyone. He knows that Wentz is very talented and a good quarterback above average, but he's going to crumble under pressure. Why would you want to risk that? And just go ahead and give him an offensive lineman. So I say that they're going to go down the route of an offensive lineman and Christian Derisaw in my eyes is going to be the next best available lineman. So the Indianapolis Colts, Christian Derisaw. Perfect. Now number 22, the Arizona Cardinals are in a good spot. And this ended up being a very good trade. I'm going to explain why because a trade with the Tennessee Titans to move down six spots because the Titans feel like that JC Horne is the best quarterback available. The Arizona Cardinals could also get one of the better, the cornerbacks in the NFL draft and Caleb Farley, which people are saying could be the best quarterback in this NFL draft. It's between Sir Tan, Horne and Farley, whichever order you want to put them in. The thing is with Sir Tan and Horne, yeah, that's just opinion, but with Farley, he's falling down an NFL draft boards because of a back procedure that he had that kept him out of his pro day when he was with Virginia Tech. So the second straight Virginia Tech prospect that's going to be drafted is going to be Caleb Farley by the Arizona Cardinals. And this would be a steal if that back procedure ended up just being a, you know, nothing too serious. And the Cardinals were to get a replacement for Patrick Peterson. So at number 22, I have the Cardinals taking Caleb Farley. Let's update that real quick. Caleb Farley. All right. So Caleb Farley to the Arizona Cardinals. Number 23, the second of the first round picks for the New York Jets. Who are they going to take? They already addressed their offense, the biggest need quarterback, Zach Wilson. Cool. You could continue to give them weapons. Okay, but you already signed Tevin Coleman, Corey Davis. They're not going to be game changing players, but as far as needing to draft a wide receiver or running back in the first round, I think for the time being, since you signed those players, you can hold off until the second round, at least, at least to get some weapons or some good players for your defense that has not been that good last season. So get someone like Aziz Ojulari from Georgia. He is listed as a linebacker officially, but when I watch tape on this guy, I see him more as an edge rusher. And that's where he excels the most and the next best available edge rusher, which is a need for the New York Jets for Robert Solid, who's going to fit in just nicely with that defense. I think that Aziz Ojulari is going to do well with the New York Jets. He's going to be drafted by the Jets number 23, if you were to fall that late. So let's go ahead and change that on our draft board. Ojulari. All right, 24, the Pittsburgh Steelers. This pick is very, very interesting. Because I have a couple of needs that they need to address. They need to address the offensive line needs and the running back needs. Najee Harris is still on that board. And I almost put Najee Harris down for the Pittsburgh Steelers in my mock draft, but then I really thought about it. And I thought about the whole Avion Bell situation and with James Conner coming in and excelling, proving that the Pittsburgh Steelers could really just put in any running back and they'll just do well. We saw it last year with Benny Snell. I'm not saying that Benny Snell is going to be the featured franchise running back of the Pittsburgh Steelers, but I think you can hold off for the time being until round two. I mean, there are some pretty good running backs out there in round two. For instance, Travis Etienne from Clemson, he's probably going to be taken early on in the second round. But you've got both those guys from North Carolina, Michael Carter, Givante Williams, you got Kenneth Gainwell, Trey Cern from Ohio State. So you can draft them later on. But I feel like at this point, you need to address the offensive line and you're going to have to get the best interior offensive linemen, the guy from Alabama, Landon Dickerson, to be a Pittsburgh Stealer. Again, bolster that offensive line, protect Ben Rothesberger, even though that line has been great and has not given up that many sacks this last season. You're going to have to improve that run game, which has been a big disappointment for the Steelers last season. It has been the reason why this Pittsburgh offense has been lacking. But I think with the Steelers and Mike Thomas approach, it's better to get the offensive line and improve them rather than the running back for the time being. That's a bigger priority. Let's go ahead and put Landon Dickerson down for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Number 25, the Jacksonville Jaguars are back on the board, and they have an ultimatum to make at this point. Do they want to continue to get some help for Trevor Lawrence? Do they want to continue to improve their defense? What do they do at this point? I'm going to go ahead and say that since it's Urban Meyer and he wants this Trevor Lawrence experiment to work out, go ahead and get your weapons for the offense. You could get a wide receiver, but I think a bigger need is to protect Trevor Lawrence, that rookie quarterback, make sure that he doesn't make any mistakes, and he has the most time available to throw the ball. And that is Tevin Jenkins, the offensive tackle that could be drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars. He's a guy from Oklahoma State. They need protection for Lawrence. You can focus on the defense in the second round for the time being, get a good offensive tackle as they are falling and getting off the board pretty quick. Tevin Jenkins from Oklahoma State to protect Trevor Lawrence. Tevin Jenkins is going to be drafted. All right, number 26, the Cleveland Browns. So originally I had the Browns trading up with the Arizona Cardinals to number 16 to get the best edge available rusher. And that was Jalen Phillips on that draft board. But with them signing to Davion Clowney just yesterday, I don't feel like they're going to jump the gun just yet to get a good edge rusher in the first round. I think they're going to be fine for just this one-year deal with David, Davion Clowney, maybe address the edge rusher in the second round. Instead, what you could do with the number 26 pick, you could go down different routes. You could go down the route of corner. Well, they drafted some pretty good corners in the last two rounds the last two years. I don't think you would really want to do that again. Okay, well, why not get an edge rusher? Well, you could get Jason Oway, but like I said, to Davion Clowney, you could hold off in the second round. How about a wide receiver for Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns? Jarvis Landry is getting up there in age. Odell Beckham is getting up there in age. There's no solid slot receiver wide receiver three on that offense. Why not get the shifty Rondell Moore from Purdue to be a Cleveland Brown? When I watch tape of Cadarius Tony and Rondell Moore, I thought that Cadarius Tony was better than Rondell Moore just because Rondell Moore, he's shorter and he's smaller in stature and most of his highlights was based off of miss tackles of players hitting him, but him having a low center of gravity and still being able to be on his feet when the NFL players are bigger, faster, stronger. So it's his game is going to suffer a little bit in the NFL. So that's why I have more falling down in the draft board because of that. And I have Cadarius Tony ranked higher. But I think the last best wide receiver available that's worthy of being a first round pick could be Rondell Moore and what other team that could draft him than the Cleveland Browns at this point. So at 26, I have the Browns taking Rondell Moore who's going to be a good wide receiver three or a slot receiver could develop into a wide receiver to maybe even wide receiver one when Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham's contracts come to an end in the next couple of years. So the Browns Rondell Moore go ahead and update that now the Ravens the Ravens thrive off of multiple defensive picks when it comes to the NFL draft. I mean, I don't know what it is about John Harba, but he can just draft all these defensive pieces and they just suddenly do well. That's what the Ravens like to do in their system. And I feel like that's what they're going to do again this year. You lost Matthew Junot. So you could get an edge rusher, but I would say that's your second priority. Your first priority is a safety and the only worthy talent of a first round draft pick at the safety position would be Trayvon Mohrig from TCU. You get a solid safety and that secondary and you're going to bolster your defense. You could put them in as a rotational player, whatever it may be. However, John Harbaugh and that defense wants to work, go ahead and draft Trayvon Mohrig from TCU. Now the Saints. This is also another team that I had training a little bit back if they needed to out of the first round just to acquire multiple draft picks. But I'm going to go ahead and say that they stay put with that number 28 pick and they draft an edge rusher to replace the loss of Tray Hendrickson and Jason Oway, the edge rusher from Penn State. Like I said, Tray Hendrickson who had 12 sacks last season went on to Cincinnati Bengals and came Jordan is getting up there in age as well. So you don't know and you can't guarantee that he'll be around for a very long time. I think the future of that defensive line for the Saints is going to be Marcus Davenport in whichever edge rusher they decided to draft in this 2021 NFL draft. Now at this point in my mock draft, I have Jason Oway as the best available edge rusher. Let's go ahead and type that in. Jason Oway, let me scroll up a bit in case the lower third or to cut that off. Okay, so number 29, we have the Green Bay Packers. The Packers are very, very interesting because we always talk about Aaron Rodgers needing some weapons for the Packers. Yeah, makes sense. Understandable. Devin Funches being the wide receiver too, that could work out, no guarantee. But I think after the disappointing season, or at least in the playoffs, that Kevin King had in giving up a touchdown with Scotty Miller at the end of the half to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, I think a lot of pressure is put on Kevin King and I think that they want to go draft a cornerback at this point. So the two worthy first round cornerbacks I have on my draft board, actually there's four, they could go down the route of Gregory Newsom, they could go down the route of Asante Samuel, Tyson Campbell and Eric Stokes from Georgia. I'm going to say that from Northwestern, Greg Newsom is the best available cornerback, but I wouldn't be surprised if they go down the route of any one of those four cornerbacks, Asante Samuel, Campbell or Stokes. But I have Newsom personally as a cornerback and again, it's because of, they missed out on the chance of playing in the Super Bowl because of the secondary and I feel like to give Kevin King a little bit of a push who they re-signed, they're going to want to go down the route of cornerback. So Greenby Packers, Greg Newsom, step that in and fill that in. Greg Newsom the second. All right, the Bills at number 30, they also need a cornerback and they could go down the route of Drafting One and Samuel who's probably more than likely not going to get drafted by the Chiefs or the Buccaneers. Maybe they will draft him, but you can go ahead and take them at pick number 30. But I'm going to go ahead and say that they want to address their run defense first and the only worthy defensive lineman, interior defensive lineman that is worthy of a first round pick is the prospect from Alabama Christian Barmore to be drafted as a defensive tackle. And the reason why I have Barmore being drafted by the Bills is because for the past two years, they've really needed to fix a hole that they've had on that defensive line, especially with the run defense. This past season, they gave up 4.6 yards of carry on the defense. That needs to change. So they want to address the defensive line and Christian Barmore is the best available interior lineman, only worthy one that is available of being drafted in the first round. So let's go ahead and update that on the draft board. Christian Barmore. Now pick number 31, the Kansas City Chiefs. I think it's kind of apparent if you follow the NFL who the Chiefs are going to draft, not which players specifically, but which position they would want to address in the first round. They gave up or they released Eric Fisher and Mitchell Schwartz, two big, good offensive linemen and they're on the roster. And the loss of Eric Fisher in that Super Bowl proved that you need an offensive lineman so bad and you need depth at that position. Still don't know why they released those great offensive linemen. They went on to other teams, but I think you'd want to address that need in that hole at offensive tackle. And the best offensive tackle at this point in my eyes is Jalen Mayfield. Could be Alex Leatherwood as well. I kind of debated between which one should be Leatherwood or Mayfield, but I'm going to say it's Jalen Mayfield at offensive tackle from Michigan. And again, it's just going back to, you got to address those needs. You don't want Patrick Mahomes to run around and you need protection for him. So let's go ahead and update our board with Jalen Mayfield. That leaves us with the last pick of the 2021 NFL draft, at least the first round, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Man, there's multiple options that they could go down. They could go down if Rondale Moore is still available on the board. They need to address the loss of Antonio Brown and they could go get Rondale Moore. Other than that, they brought back all 22 starters on that team. So you don't really need to draft someone to be a starter. All you need is depth. So if Rondale Moore is taken, you could take Elijah Moore from Ole Miss to be that number three wide receiver. I think they continue to go down the route of getting more depth on the defensive side of the ball because Ndarmakong Su is getting up there in age and they want a good edge rusher. And the next best available edge rusher is Joe Trion from Washington. Again, that's just going back to Ndarmakong Su with all the contracts that he has with them being a one year, two year deal, having to resign up for a lot of money. I don't think that's going to last for a very long time, especially given his age, even though he is a very talented player, you want to bring in younger blood, younger talent. And Joe Trion is going to be the best available edge rusher on my board if all of this ends up becoming true. So Tampa Bay Buccaneers, I got you drafting Joe Trion. Let's go ahead and update that on the board. All right. So that is our 2021 NFL mock draft. Let's just go ahead and recap the draft board for you guys if you just want to skip all of this and go to the end of the video just to see who we drafted. So pick one, Jaguars, Trevor Lawrence, pick two, Jets, Zach Wilson, three 49ers, Justin Fields, four Falcons, Kyle Pitts, five Bengals, Jamar Chase, six Dolphins, Panay Sule, seven Washington from a trade with the Detroit Lions for Trey Lance, eight Panthers, Rashan Slater, nine Broncos, Mack Jones, 10 Cowboys, Quiddipay, 11 Giants, Micah Parsons, 12 Eagles, Devonte Smith, 13 Chargers, Patrick Sertan, 14 the Bears via trade from the Minnesota Vikings to get Jalen Waddle, 15 Patriots, Jeremiah Owosu-Koromoa, 16 Titans via trade with the Arizona Cardinals, JC Horn, 17 Raiders, Elijah Veritucker, 18 Dolphins, Jalen Phillips, 19 via trading back with the Washington football team, the Lions get Kaderios Tony, 20 Vikings trading back from the Bears, Gregory Rousseau, 21 Indianapolis Colots, Christian Derisaw, 22 Cardinals trading back from the Titans, Caleb Farley, 23 Jets, Aziz Ojulari, 24 Steelers, Landon Dickerson, 25 Jaguars, Tevin Jenkins, 26 Browns, Rondale Moore, 27 Ravens, Trayvon Moerig, 28 Saints, Jason Oway, 29 Packers, Greg Newsom II, 30 Bills, Christian Barmore, 31 Chiefs, Jalen Mayfield, 32 Buccaneers, Joe Trion, 100% flawless. 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