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Buccaneers.com 2022 Mock Draft 5.0: Trade-A-Palooza!

Buccaneers.com 2022 Mock Draft 5.0: Trade-A-Palooza!

Up to this point, I’ve done three previous 2022 Mock Drafts; you can find the links to them below. One of them was a Buccaneers-only exercise in which I tried to find a reasonable pick for our team at each of their six spot in the draft. The other two were your usual first-round exercises, in which I made a prediction for each team picking in the round, including the Buccaneers at pick number 27. In neither of those did I allow myself to trade any of those 32 picks.

Well, those days are gone. All the pent-up desire to move some of these picks around and get teams in position to pursue bolder strategies that I’ve tamped down over the past month? I’m letting it out, baby! Every other week in our Buccaneers.com Mock Draft series I’m deviating from the usual approach and working on some kind of gimmick. And for Mock Draft 4.0 that gimmick is: TRADES! Lots of trades.

This time around, I tasked myself with predicting the 32 picks in the first round and engineering at least six trades. As it turned out, I hit that goal right on the head. And, yes, the Buccaneers were one of the teams involved in a trade. Read on for the possibly off-the-wall results.

If you care to review what we’ve said in previous weeks and how things have changed, here are our previous efforts:

Mock Draft 1.0 (Carmen Vitali’s final contribution.)

Mock Draft 2.0 (My first attempt, without trades.)

Mock Draft 3.0 (A mock dedicated solely to the Bucs’ 2022 draft picks)

Mock Draft 4.0 (My second straight mock, still without trades.)

A little explanation. I used the Jimmy Johnson draft value chart and made sure that these trades were realistic in that regard. I’m not going to go through the full specifics of how each trade was made even, but please trust me that I made the numbers work. In some cases, I had to use 2023 picks to even things out a bit.

So let’s begin. Look out for the **TRADE ALERT** notification between picks.

1. Jacksonville Jaguars: EDGE Aidan Hutchinson, Michigan

I’ve gone offensive line at this…

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