2019 NFL Mock Draft 3.0 — The Final Projections

NFL Mock Drafts are the equivalent of someone bringing free sandwiches from Panera into your office: people sprint over as soon as they find out they’re available available, but after going through one of them, most people realize just how bland, mind-numbingly ill-conceived, and ultimately useless the majority of them are.

So in yet another annual edition of “trying to project what’s going to happen in the NFL Draft with said projections looking hilariously terrible after the actual draft takes place,” here are my final projections of what I think will take place this Thursday evening, in Round 1 of the 2019 NFL Draft.

Reminder: this is what i’m predicting to happen, based on a combination of the latest (reliable) team-by-team intelligence, identified team needs, and overall drafting trends.

(Note: feel free to check out my previous mock drafts: version 1.0 and version 2.0.)

On to this mockery of a legitimate football practice (pun intended).

1. Arizona — Kyler Murray, QB, Oklahoma

I’m now actually rooting for this pick to happen for three simple reasons:

1. It validates my theory that most (if not all) NFL owners are more interested in selling tickets than winning games, even if it…