2019 NFL Mock Draft 2.0

Kyler Murray and Kliff Kingsbury go together like peanut butter and… ladies. #CalNaughtonJrQuotes

99 of 100 people reading this mock are going to skip right over this lede and head straight down to their favorite team’s pick and proudly declare how my projection is wrong, even though both they and I have the same odds of correctly picking what the pick will be one month’s time as my 15 lb. dog.

So with that caveat emptor in place (how’s that for fancy word usage?), on to my second mock of the season.

I spent way too much time curating each pick in this (ultimately pointless) mock, which is …

• 66% based on the latest intel on the team’s mindset and identified needs, and;
• 33% on best player available based on that information or what the team generally looks for in the type of player they draft.

In other words: there’s a lot of semi-educated guessing that’s going to look comically wrong about five weeks from now.

But you’re still reading this. So who’s laughing now?

1. Arizona — Kyler Murray, QB, Oklahoma

In my stubborn attempts to argue against throwing away an extra 3rd and 5th round pick to move up and take Josh Rosen in the 2018 NFL Draft, and surrounded him with a bottom-three supporting cast in the NFL, only to pull the plug on said quarterback (and draft another quarterback), I forgot about…