3 Round Mitch Mock 2015

[Mitch]

Round 1:

1. TB: Jameis Winston, QB, Florida St.

The Bucs Licht up a Winston.

2. TEN: Leonard Williams, DT, USC.

The Titans add this Leonard to Dick LeBeau's Big Bang Theory.

3. JAX: Dexter Fowler, Jr., DE, Florida.

The Jags feel very personal about this Fowler.

4. OAK: Amari Cooper, WR, Alabama.

The Raiders intend to fly this Coop.

5. WASH: Marcus Mariota, QB, Oregon.

This Duck means a Naflac account for RGIII.

6. NYJ: Vic Beasley, OLB, Clemson.

The Bowles and the Beez.

7. CHI: Randy Gregory, OLB, Nebraska.

John Fox figures that Illinois will legalize marijuana on his watch, just as Colorado did.

8. ATL: Todd Gurley, RB, Georgia.

Quinn gets his Beast Mode RB and local icon.

9. NYG: Brandon Scherff, T/G, Iowa.

They shot the Scherff, but they did not shoot the deputy.

10. STL: T.J. Clemmings, T, Pittsburgh.

Life on the Mississippi by Samuel T.J. Clemmings.

11. MIN: Marcus Peters, CB, Washington.

Minneapolis has St. Paul and now it has St. Peters.

12. CLE: Kevin White, WR, West Virginia.

The Life of Johnny: From Walter White to Kevin White.

13. NO: Alvin "Bud" Dupree, OLB/DE, Kentucky.

The Big Dupreezy.

14. MIA: DeVante Parker, WR, Louisville.

There's little Risk in this Parker brother.

15. SF: Arik Armstead, DE, Oregon.

A shot in the Armstead for their defensive line.

16. HOU: Devin Smith, WR, Ohio St.

Deep speed in the heart of Texas.

17. SD: Danny Shelton, NT, Washington.

Inside thunder for the Bolts.

18. KC: Breshad Perriman, WR, Central Florida.

Is this new Chief their dreamcatcher?

19. CLE: La'el Collins, T/G, LSU.

Dawgs wanna Pound the ball.

20. PHI: Landon Collins, S, Alabama.

This Eagle is Landon.

21. CIN: Owamagbe Odighizuwa, DE, UCLA.

Marvin gettin' Diggy wid it.

22. PIT: Trae Waynes, CB, Michigan St.

The hope is this is not a fold-up Trae.

23. DET: Ereck Flowers, T, Florida.

Flowers Powers.

24. AZ: Shane Ray, OLB, Missouri.

Sugar Ray adds thump and speed off the edge.

25. CAR: Jaelen Strong, WR, Arizona St.

A Strong move.

26. BAL: Dorial Green-Beckham, WR, Oklahoma.

Leaving Torrey Pines for Dorial Country Club.

27. MIN (from Dallas for RB Adrian Peterson): Melvin Gordon, RB, Wisconsin.

This Gordon can get upfield in a Flash.

28. DEN: Cameron Erving, C/G, Florida St.

Orange Julius Erving.

29. IND: Malcom Brown, DT, Texas

What Brown can do for their weak rushing defense.

30. GB: Eric Kendricks, ILB, UCLA.

Plugging the holes in the occasionally Swiss cheese defense.

31. NO: Phillip Dorsett, WR, Miami.

NO-DOZE for this high-speed offense.

32. NE: Eddie Goldman, DT, Florida St.

Goldman and Sacks---and the rich get richer.

Round 2:

33. TEN: D.J. Humphries, T, Florida.
34. TB: Mario Edwards Jr., DE, Florida St.
35. OAK: Preston Smith, DE, Mississippi St.
36. JAX: Kevin Johnson, CB, Wake Forest.
37. NYJ: Brett Hundley, QB, UCLA.
38. WAS: Jake Fisher, G/T, Oregon.
39. CHI: Carl Davis, DT, Iowa.
40. NYG: Daniel Hunter, DE, LSU
41. STL: Sammie Coates, WR, Auburn.
42. ATL: Eli Harold, OLB, Virginia.
43: CLE: Bryce Petty, QB, Baylor.
44. NO: A.J. Cann, G, South Carolina.
45. MIN: Stephone Anthony, ILB, Clemson.
46. SF: Tre Jackson, G, Florida St.
47. MIA: Byron Jones, CB, Connecticut.
48. SD: Nelson Agholor, WR, USC.
49. KC: Benardrick McKinney, LB, Mississippi St.
50. BUF: Denzel Perryman, ILB, Miami.
51. HOU: Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, CB, Oregon.
52. PHI: Tyler Lockett, WR, Kansas St.
53. CIN: Shaq Thompson, LB, Washington.
54 DET: Jordan Phillips, DT, Oklahoma.
55. AZ: Jay Ajayi, RB, Boise St.
56. PIT: Quinten Rollins, S/CB, Miami (Ohio)
57. CAR: Jalen Collins, CB, LSU.
58. BAL: Tevin Coleman, RB, Indiana.
59. DEN: Michael Bennett, DT/DE, Ohio St.
60. DAL: Jacoby Glenn, CB, Central Florida.
61. IND: Ameer Abdullah, RB, Nebraska.
62. GB: Maxx Williams, TE, Minnesota.
63. SEA: Rashad Greene, WR, Florida St.
64. NE: P.J. Williams, CB, Florida St.

Round 3:

65. TB: Donovan Smith, T, Penn. St.
66. TEN: Garrett Grayson, QB, Colorado St.
67. JAX: Eric Rowe, CB/S, Utah.
68. OAK: Alex Carter, CB, Stanford.
69. WASH: Derron Smith, S, Fresno St.
70. NYJ: Nate Orchard, OLB, Utah.
71. CHI: Dezmin Lewis, WR, Central Arkansas
72. STL: Ronald Darby, CB, Florida St.
73. ATL: T.Y. Yeldon, RB, Alabama.
74. NYG: Clive Walford, TE, Miami.
75. NO: Devin Funchess, WR/TE, Michigan.
76. MIN: D'Joun Smith, CB, Florida Atlantic.
77. CLE: Xavier Cooper, DT, Washington St.
78. NO: Kevin White, CB, TCU.
79. SF: Steven Nelson, CB, Oregon St.
80. KC: Damarious Randall, S, Arizona St.
81. BUF: Ali Marpet, G, Hobart.
82. HOU: Sean Mannion, QB, Oregon St.
83. SD: Duke Johnson, RB, Miami
84. PHI: Josh Harper, WR, Fresno St.
85. CIN: Nick O'Leary, TE, Florida St.
86. AZ: Andy Gallik, C, Boston College.
87. PIT: Ibraheim Campbell, S, Northwestern.
88. DET: Javorius Allen, RB, USC.
89. CAR: Jacquiski Tartt, S, Stamford.
90. BAL: Tyler Kroft, TE, Rutgers.
91. DAL: Ellis McCarthy, DT, UCLA.
92. DEN: Paul Dawson, LB, TCU.
93. IND: Hau'oli Kikaha, OLB, Washington.
94. GB: Senquez Golson, CB, Mississippi.
95. SEA: Hroniss Grasu, C, Oregon.
96. NE: Laken Tomlinson, G, Duke.
97. NE: Chris Conley, WR, Georgia.
98. KC: Trey Flowers, DE, Arkansas.
99. CIN: Cedric Ogbuehi, T/G, Texas A&M.

Hope you found this reasonable and entertaining. Took me all day.

 

[SissyBoyFloyd]

Not bad. I would have a very hard time passing on Malcom Brown, DT in R1. Also, not a fan of a C with the R3 pick. Think I would have rather taken Golson, CB, from Miss.

 

[Mitch]

Not bad. I would have a very hard time passing on Malcom Brown, DT in R1. Also, not a fan of a C with the R3 pick. Think I would have rather taken Golson, CB, from Miss.

I just didn't want Seattle taking the best center in the draft other than Erving (whom I was very tempted to take at #24, even over Ray)---the other centers aren't nearly as good, imo.

That said---I love Golson too, and wanted to take him.

Taking o-linemen is not sexy at all, is it? But, hey, winning is---and I think Gallik solves the center spot for years to come.

 

[Buckybird]

Mitch lots of good work with reasonable picks. Luv the name tie ins with each team! Lol

Luv the Ray & Gallik picks but I'm not high on Ajayi. To me he runs stiff & doesn't appear that elusive & doesn't really look explosive in & out cuts. I prefer Coleman or Johnson over him, but is that too high? I was right about Trent Richardson on those same issues a few years back lol

Btw are the Falcs going to the wishbone after taking Gurley & Yeldon?

 

[WildBB]

[9. NYG: Brandon Scherff, T/G, Iowa.

They shot the Scherff, but they did not shoot the deputy.

All around in my hometown their trying to track me down......

 

[cardncubfan]

Mitch, you have DGB listed twice.

 

[Jim Otis]

Mitch, you have DGB listed twice.

Yes , Pick 26 --------- 41

I want him moved to pick 24 !!!

 

[gmabel830]

I don't see Ray falling, unless teams take him off their board due to the foot surgery thing (conflicting info on that currently).. but it is sounding like some are expecting Gregory to fall due to his weight and failed drug test.

 

[football karma]

Apparently Jay Ajayi has a knee issue that is causing teams to take him off their boards.

 

[overseascardfan]

I would take PJ Williams in Round 2.

 

[az jam]

Would love to have DE Shane Ray and RB Jay Ajayl. That would make my day even with the "sneak in" of your New England player (C Andy Gallick Boston College). After all what is a Cardinal draft without Mitch giving us one of his homers.

Seriously, nice work on all the picks. I agree that if AP is traded it will be to Dallas. Additionally, I would take CB John Shaw USC with the Cards pick in the third round. I think he is still on the board.

 

[Mitch]

Mitch lots of good work with reasonable picks. Luv the name tie ins with each team! Lol

Luv the Ray & Gallik picks but I'm not high on Ajayi. To me he runs stiff & doesn't appear that elusive & doesn't really look explosive in & out cuts. I prefer Coleman or Johnson over him, but is that too high? I was right about Trent Richardson on those same issues a few years back lol

Btw are the Falcs going to the wishbone after taking Gurley & Yeldon?

I was thinking that Ajayi was tougher inside the tackles, which is why he might be higher on the Cardinals board.

I think you and I are on the same page because after Gurley and Gordon, I like Abdullah, Coleman and Yeldon the best.

Thanks for pointing out my Falcons mistake---what happened was I had the Falcons taking Shane Ray and then on ESPN Insiders they were talking about Ray's toe injury and him having to have surgery, so I thought this is our chance to pick him. I had us taking Gurley, so I just flipped them and then in thinking that Quinn saw what Marshawn Lynch did for the Seahawks' success and how popular a pick it would be the Atlanta---would sell the games out, imo, and lol they wouldn't have to pump in artificial crowd noise!

 

[Mitch]

Apparently Jay Ajayi has a knee issue that is causing teams to take him off their boards.

That was a false report. Ajayi's knee injury was 4 years ago.

 

[Mitch]

Mitch, you have DGB listed twice.

With that long a name, i figured he deserved to be in there twice. Thanks, man, I will fix it.

This is the first time I have ever done a 3 round mock and I have to say---it is a lot of work studying team needs with a list of available players and then checking what players the teams have already taken---and then when you make one change it can lead to omissions and redundancies as you guys have pointed out.

 

[Garthshort]

Mitch, I love the Ray pick, IF he is healthy. And while I'm not sure of anything when it comes to this Draft, my guess is that the Cardinals will go pass rusher in the first round, if one of the Big Five (Fowler, Beasley, Dupree, Gregory, Ray) is available. Of course, Gregory might be considered too hot for Arizona.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

You know I like the Ray pick.

One thing all these mocks have wrong, unless he's overruled, Jax is not taking Dante Fowler at 3. It's likely either going to be Williams, Cooper, or a trade. Now, forces above him may dictate taking the local Florida player but Fowler would not be the unanimous pick in their draft room.

 

[Mitch]

You know I like the Ray pick.

One thing all these mocks have wrong, unless he's overruled, Jax is not taking Dante Fowler at 3. It's likely either going to be Williams, Cooper, or a trade. Now, forces above him may dictate taking the local Florida player but Fowler would not be the unanimous pick in their draft room.

Interesting. Fowler was just on ESPN's Insider set and the way he talked about his visit with Jags he seemed 100% certain from what he was told that he is their pick. Plus---the Jags have such little edge rushing talent on their roster for a pressure based defense, and as we know the edge talent drops off significantly after the first 5-6 players.

Now---if Leonard Williams falls to #3---he would be hard for any team to pass up. And Cooper is dynamic. Should be interesting. If Fowler does slide a little maybe that increases the Cardinals' chance of being in a position to draft one of the top edge rushers.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

Interesting. Fowler was just on ESPN's Insider set and the way he talked about his visit with Jags he seemed 100% certain from what he was told that he is their pick. Plus---the Jags have such little edge rushing talent on their roster for a pressure based defense, and as we know the edge talent drops off significantly after the first 5-6 players.

Now---if Leonard Williams falls to #3---he would be hard for any team to pass up. And Cooper is dynamic. Should be interesting. If Fowler does slide a little maybe that increases the Cardinals' chance of being in a position to draft one of the top edge rushers.

I agree, Williams would be the no-brainer pick. The interesting thing is if Mariota is there. I would think Cleveland, SD, and Philly would all come calling. Getting Cleveland's two picks at 12 and 19 could give them Gurley and Beasley. I would do that over taking Fowler. It will be interesting.

 

[juza76]

I agree, Williams would be the no-brainer pick. The interesting thing is if Mariota is there. I would think Cleveland, SD, and Philly would all come calling. Getting Cleveland's two picks at 12 and 19 could give them Gurley and Beasley. I would do that over taking Fowler. It will be interesting.

jeramiah said dupree can be a top 5 pick

 

[Mitch]

I agree, Williams would be the no-brainer pick. The interesting thing is if Mariota is there. I would think Cleveland, SD, and Philly would all come calling. Getting Cleveland's two picks at 12 and 19 could give them Gurley and Beasley. I would do that over taking Fowler. It will be interesting.

I think Beasley is a top 8 pick, guaranteed. Actually now that Ray might be sliding down a little, they could take Gurley and Ray at 12 & 19.

 

[Mitch]

jeramiah said dupree can be a top 5 pick

I think Dupree is squarely in the top 13---and now that Ray might be sliding a little, Dupree could go at #5 (WASH), #6 (NYJ), #7 (CHI), #8 (ATL), #9 (NYG).

 

[juza76]

mitch read his tweet

https://twitter.com/MoveTheSticks/status/591448937548099586?lang=it

 

[Buckybird]

mitch read his tweet

https://twitter.com/MoveTheSticks/status/591448937548099586?lang=it

And yet he's less productive. Sometime tells me the rise of Dupree is gonna spell disaster for some team. I like all the top edge rushers including Harold & Kikaha more than him.

 

[juza76]

And yet he's less productive. Sometime tells me the rise of Dupree is gonna spell disaster for some team. I like all the top edge rushers including Harold & Kikaha more than him.

but dupree had like more then 70 tackles,his primary role was just not attacking the qb..a guy who has talent and could fit well with arizona defense is frank clark,a 3th round pick

 

[RugbyMuffin]

If that is the way it ends up for the Cardinals, I will happily take it.