The Redskin Report

Every football website in the world has a mock draft now a days. But lets be honest, 99% of them are completely useless. Most of these people haven’t seen all of these prospects and have no sources with NFL teams to give them insight. So instead, they swipe the few decent mock drafts and jumble them up a bit. There are probably 300 mock drafts out there and maybe 10 have any useful insight.

So when preparing a mock draft for The Redskin Report, I’ve attempted to come up with something that adds a bit of value to the process. I rarely watch college football and I’ve seen about 10 of these guys play on TV. I don’t follow the combine and I honestly have no interest in knowing how many times Alan Branch bench pressed 250lbs. Needless to say, I’m not going to come up with anything decent by using my knowledge of the players, so instead I’m going to use the people who actually know what they are talking about.

I’ve taken 8 mock drafts from the bigger sites (full list below) and done some statistical analysis. Before we get to the results, there are a few things to point out. The actual player selection order is more of a guideline like Mel Kiper’s big board than actual draft predictions. For example, I don’t think the Vikings are going to take Alan Branch but that’s how the numbers came out. The more interesting numbers are the most common slot (what draft slot the player is most often listed on the various mocks) and the range (this is where the numbers say the player will go, it can be large if there isn’t a concensus or it can be tiny if a player is constantly picked in the same slot). Also included is the highest slot and lowest slot for each player, as well as the percentage of mock drafts that the player is picked. One last thing, all the numbers shown relate to the player and not the team.

Click on to see the actual results.


The Redskin Report 2007 Mock Draft 1.0