The dust has officially settled on the 2024 NFL Draft, but the discussion is not yet over. Just like Todd McShay’s annual All-Satellite Team and Mel Kiper’s annual draft grades, an annual tradition of my draft coverage here at FFSN is creating my All-Draft team.

If you have not yet listened to this week’s episode of The Steelers Fix, make sure you do so below. This week, Jeremy and I create our All-22 All-Draft teams for 2024. You won’t want to miss it!

This year, we are creating two distinct teams. If you have seen my teams in years past, you are probably familiar with my by-round approach. I choose my favorite selection from each round and then choose three other selections I like as “bench” options for that round. I do it for all seven rounds as well as undrafted free agency. For the second year in a row, however, we will be releasing another team which fills out a starting 11 for both offense and defense. To fill out that roster, I will select three players from each round as well as one undrafted free agent.

Here are the official ground rules for the by-round format created back in 2017:

• Simply choose your favorite four or five players (or fits) taken in each round of the draft.
• From those lists of four or five players, choose one that you like slightly above the rest. The others are your “bench” options.
• You cannot be too obvious with your first pick. In other words, Joe Burrow was not allowed back in 2020, and Penei Sewell and Trevor Lawrence were not allowed in 2021. So this year, no Caleb Williams or Marvin Harrison, Jr. Be reasonable with it. Avoid players who were selected or, in some cases, projected to go in the top 5-10 picks of the draft.

For the All-22 version of this exercise, these are the rules we created beginning in 2023:

• You must fill a starting offensive formation and starting defensive formation with only draft picks from this class.
• To fill the 22 spots, you must choose 3 players from each round of the draft and one undrafted free agent.
• You may choose more players in a later round and forego an earlier-round selection, but you may not choose extra players in an earlier round by doing so. (Example: there are four players in round 4 that you like better than the options you have in Round 3, so instead of choosing three players in each round, you may pick four players from Round 4 and only 2 from Round 3. You may not do it the other way around to gain a pick in Round 3 by losing one in Round 4)

One new rule we implemented this year is that you may use one top-ten selection as one of your first-round picks, as your options at quarterback would be otherwise limited.

This exercise, in some ways, a different way of grading the draft picks based not only on value, but also on fit. Here is my starting 22 from last year:

Offense (1 RB, 2 WR, 2 TE):
QB: Aidan O’Connell (4)
RB: Lew Nichols III (7)
WR1: Andrei Iosivas (6)
WR2: Bryce Ford-Wheaton (UDFA)
TE1: Sam LaPorta (2)
TE2: Zack Kuntz (7)
LT: Blake Freeland (4)
LG: Andrew Vorhees (7)
C: Olusegun Oluwatimi (5)
RG: Jake Andrews — C/G (4)
RT: Darnell Wright (1)

Defense (3-3-5 alignment):
RDE: Gervon Dexter (2)
DT: Mazi Smith (1)
LDE: Adetomiwa Adebawore (4)
RUSH LB: Nolan Smith (1)
MIKE LB: Dorian Williams (3)
Hybrid RUSH/SAM LB: Yasir Abdullah (5)
CB1: Joey Porter, Jr. (2)
CB2: Darius Rush (5)
Nickel CB: Steven Gilmore (UDFA)
FS: Cory Trice (7)
SS: Chase Brown (3)

Now, let’s move to this year and unveil my 2024 all-22 All-Draft Team!

2024 All-Draft Team (All-22 Format)

*The round of the player’s selection will be shown in parenthesis after the name.

Offense (1 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE):
QB: Jayden Daniels (1)
RB: Jaylen Wright (4)
WR: Keon Coleman (2)
WR: Malachi Corley (3)
WR: Malik Washington (6)
TE: Jaheim Bell (7)
LT: Kingsley Suamataia (2)
LG: Travis Clayton (7)
C: Sedrick Van Pran (5)
RG: Zak Zinter (3)
RT: Taliese Fuaga (1)

Defense (2-4-5 Alignment):
DL: Braden Fiske (2)
DL: Khristian Boyd (6)
OLB: Mohamed Kamara (5)
ILB: Junior Colson (3)
ILB: Nathaniel Watson (6)
OLB: Jaylen Harrell (7)
CB: Quinyon Mitchell (1)
CB: Quan’tez Stiggers (5)
Nickel CB: Beanie Bishop (UDFA)
FS: Jaden Hicks (4)
SS: Malik Mustapha (4)

What are your thoughts on my all-22 All-Draft Team? Who would have been your selections? Be sure to give your thoughts on this team, while also sharing your own, in the comment section below!