This year I decided to live draft based on how actual picks were made by each team. Going into this I thought that I was a great predictor but I went 12/32 (37.5% success rate). It isn’t easy and as I made my pick I listened to the pundits and they too were wrong. The difference is that they do not hold themselves accountable like I will here. The following were my picks:
- CIN – Joe Burrow (hit)
- WAS – Chase Young (hit)
- DET – Jefffrey Okudah (hit)
- NYG – Isaiah Simmons (miss)
- MIA – Tua Tagovailoa (hit)
- LAC – Justin Herbert (hit)
- CAR – Isaiah Simmons (miss)
- ARI – Jerry Jeudy (miss)
- JAX – Jedrick Wills (miss)
- CLE- Jedrick Wills (hit)
- NYJ – Tristan Wirfs (miss)
- LV – Jerry Jeudy (miss)
- TB – Tristan Wirfs (hit)
- SF – Xavier McKinney (miss)
- DEN – Jerry Jeudy (hit)
- ATL – AJ Espenesa (miss)
- DAL – CeeDee Lamb (hit)
- MIA – D’Andre Swift (miss)
- LV- Kenneth Murray (miss)
- JAX – K’Lavon Chaisson (hit)
- PHI – Justin Jefferson (miss)
- MIN – Xavier McKinney (miss)
- LAC – D’Andre Swift (miss)
- NO – Patrick Queen (miss)
- SF – Brandon Aiyuk (hit)
- GB – Tee Higgins (miss)
- SEA – Ross Blacklock (miss)
- BAL – Patrick Queen (hit)
- TEN – Ezra Cleveland (miss)
- MIA – D’Andre Swift (miss)
- MIN – Xavier McKinney (miss)
- KC – D’Andre Swift (miss)
Clearly I thought that Swift was going to go a few times and it just didn’t happen. Linebackers were also a hard one to predict this year and took longer than expected. I know that this is a passing league but there were some serious reaches at CB. If anything it was fun to do.