Welcome to installment No. 2 of the With the First Pick newsletter — and hopefully this sequel is more like Back to the Future 2 than Dirty Dancing 2. If I could take an 88 mile per hour ride in the DeLorean into the future, I’d travel to the day after the first round of the draft, go back to publish a perfectly accurate mock draft, and then retire from mock drafts forever with that mic drop. But that’s just me.
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Today’s NFL mock draft 🔮: Will Brinson brings the heat
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The CBS Sports senior writer and podcast host extraordinaire dropped an atomic bomb with his mock draft 1.0. While I won’t spoil the fun by revealing the landing spot for a certain former MVP quarterback who’s requested a trade this month, here are notable selections in Brinson’s fabulous mock, which you can read in its entirety here.
1. Carolina Panthers – Bryce Young, QB, Alabama
2. Houston Texans – C.J. Stroud, QB, Ohio State
3. Arizona Cardinals – Will Anderson, EDGE, Alabama
5. Seattle Seahawks – Jalen Carter, DL, Georgia
8. Atlanta Falcons – Anthony Richardson, QB, Florida
20. Seattle Seahawks – Bijan Robinson, RB, Texas
22. Baltimore Ravens – Quentin Johnston, WR, Ravens
25. New York Giants – Joey Porter Jr., CB, Giants
30. Philadelphia Eagles – Jaxon Smith-Njigba, WR, Ohio State
On the Robinson selection for Seattle, Brinson wrote, “Kind of an outrageous pick and yet completely on brand for Pete Carroll and Seattle.” Truer words have never been written. The Bijan pick at No. 20 overall after drafting Kenneth Walker in Round 2 last season would likely elicit robber baron Pete Carroll, one of my favorite GIFs on the Internet.
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