http://www.nfl.com/draft/story;jses...0d5d8080ae94&template=with-video&confirm=true NFL.com's Vic Carucci and Pat Kirwan, as well as the NFL Network;s Jamie Dukes, Marshall Faulk, Mike Mayock and Solomon Wilcots, each had their own mock first rounds leading into the 2008 NFL Draft. With the draft now complete, it's time to revisit how they did. The numbers below are based on two basic criteria. One, how well were the experts able to predict at what point in the first round a specific player would be drafted. Second, could the experts correctly match up the team with a position of need, as well as correctly identify the player the team would end up drafting. In many cases, the analysts' final mock drafts vs. the real draft numbers were affected by trades that transpired during the first round. Three teams -- the Eagles, Packers and Redskins -- traded out of the first round and did not make a pick until Round 2, which automatically killed three chances of correctly identifying the pick.
Mayock actually did pretty well. Gotta give him some credit there. He was also one of the only people to predict that no WR's would be taken in the first round IIRC.
Correctly picked Felix Jones to Cowboys at No. 22. Final mock draft ... Thats Marshall Faulks description, way to go dude, nobody saw that one coming.
http://www.nfl.com/draft/story?id=09000d5d807fc496&template=without-video&confirm=true According to this mock, done on the morning of the draft, he has three WRs going in the first. By the time he did this mock, both ESPN and NFLN were both reporting the first four picks were already in place so the next few picks were pretty easy. IMO, he is over-hyped. He has a huge advantage over Kiper in that he gets coaches film from all the teams and has direct lines of communication as an employee of the league that Kiper will never have. Of course the commissioner will compliment him, he works for him. I still can't get over Mayock talking about our draft last season and saying that Samson Satele wouldn't even get on the field. I guess he only started 16 games for us.
