We are a week away from the 2020 NFL Draft and plenty of speculation has risen around the league based on who will go where. Of course throughout the trying times we are faced with in today’s world, the NFL Draft offers optimism for NFL fans around the world with an opportunity to turn around a team’s recent misfortune, or perhaps build on their success. These young NFL prospects hold the future of the 32 franchises in the palm of their hands.

I sit down with Emory Cuzze to hold a mock draft where we act as the general manager for a day. It must be emphasized that these are not predictions, however an opinion of how we would use the upcoming selection for each team. Picks were assigned randomly and we will maneuver at our own discretion and quite possibly make a couple of trades along the way. Filled with our own insight, we will provide an in-depth analysis of why we went with the move we decided. A fun experiment turned into a two hour excursion of bouncing our decisions back and forth off of one another until we had a first round of exciting selections completed. Check out how it all went down below!

Part 1 provides an introduction to our draft process and an in-depth analysis for picks 3 through 19. (We started our draft at pick 3 after deciding 1 and 2 were consensus selections)

The following times are when each team is on the clock should you want to skip ahead:

3. MIA (Mock Trade w/ DET) – 3:45

4. NYG – 6:05

5. DET (Mock Trade w/ MIA) – 8:17

6. LAC – 9:55

7. CAR – 12:40

8. TB (Mock Trade w/ ARI) – 15:15

9. JAC – 18:50

10. CLE – 24:55

11. NYJ – 28:40

12. LVR – 32:45

13. SF (from IND) – 34:25

14. ARI (Mock Trade w/ TB) – 37:45

15. DEN – 39:25

16. ATL – 44:50

17. BAL (Mock Trade w/ DAL) – 47:45

18. MIA (from PIT) – 53:20

19. LVR (from Chi) – 58:25

Times for Part 2.

20. JAC (from LAR) – 0:00

21. PHI – 2:40

22. MIN (from BUF) – 5:20

23. LAC (Mock Trade w/ NE) – 10:10

24. IND (Mock Trade w/ NO) – 19:05

25. MIN – 25:00

26. MIA (from HOU) – 28:55

27. SEA – 34:30

28. DAL (Mock Trade w/ BAL) – 38:15

29. TEN – 42:30

30. GB – 47:10

31. CHI (Mock Trade w/ SF) – 50:10

32. KC – 55:20