It is the height of the NFL Draft Season for fans. With the season comes much speculation from pundits and experts. Mock Drafts come across many social media feeds and college football player information is abundant. It can seem overwhelming at times. Some Mock Drafts are better than others with information and player profiles. The question is are fans finding value in Mock Drafts.

I believe it can be speculated early in the draft where certain players maybe taken and by which team.  Mock Drafts that are done by people that know what they are doing and have a good grasp of the college football prospects can be valuable to fans. They can give fans a good idea of whom their team may take early in the draft.  It is when the draft goes into the 3rd round and beyond is purely a guessing game by anyone.

Also, keep in mind that people that put together Mock Drafts are not getting the full picture of the circumstances with a particular player. I remember in the 1994 NFL Draft, Draft Expert Mel Kiper Jr openly criticized the Indianapolis Colts for not picking quarterback Trent Dilfer with the 5th overall pick. What Kiper didn’t know was that Dilfer told the Colts that he didn’t want to play for them. Which is why the Colts picked LB Trev Alberts instead of Dilfer. Kiper had no way of knowing what Dilfer told the Colts. I always try to do my best to be cognizant of what I know and what I don’t know.

As a content creator and journalist, I try to avoid speculation. I believe my job is to react to what is happening and to the actual behavior of the team that I am covering. Mock Drafts are purely speculatory especially when the mock goes into the later rounds of the draft. Please don’t misunderstand me, the content creators that publish Mock Drafts are knowledgeable. They probably know more than I do about the NFL Draft. I make it a point to write about what I know, and I don’t write about what I don’t know. That is my job.

It is the height of the NFL Draft Season for fans. With the season comes much speculation from pundits and experts. Mock Drafts come across many social media feeds and college football player information is abundant. It can seem overwhelming at times. Some Mock Drafts are better than others with information and player profiles. The question is are fans finding value in Mock Drafts.

I believe it can be speculated early in the draft where certain players maybe taken and by which team.  Mock Drafts that are done by people that know what they are doing and have a good grasp of the college football prospects can be valuable to fans. They can give fans a good idea of whom their team may take early in the draft.  It is when the draft goes into the 3rd round and beyond is purely a guessing game by anyone.

Also, keep in mind that people that put together Mock Drafts are not getting the full picture of the circumstances with a particular player. I remember in the 1994 NFL Draft, Draft Expert Mel Kiper Jr openly criticized the Indianapolis Colts for not picking quarterback Trent Dilfer with the 5th overall pick. What Kiper didn’t know was that Dilfer told the Colts that he didn’t want to play for them. Which is why the Colts picked LB Trev Alberts instead of Dilfer. Kiper had no way of knowing what Dilfer told the Colts. I always try to do my best to be cognizant of what I know and what I don’t know.

As a content creator and journalist, I try to avoid speculation. I believe my job is to react to what is happening and to the actual behavior of the team that I am covering. Mock Drafts are purely speculatory especially when the mock goes into the later rounds of the draft. Please don’t misunderstand me, the content creators that publish Mock Drafts are knowledgeable. They probably know more than I do about the NFL Draft. I make it a point to write about what I know, and I don’t write about what I don’t know. That is my job.