Pleasure is constructing for the 2023 NFL Draft, and our workforce communities have you ever lined with all the predictions, evaluation, and scouting studies you have to prepare for the massive weekend. That features our SB Nation Group Communities Mock Draft.
When you’ve one way or the other missed the previous 16 years of this mock draft, let’s get you up to the mark: Our 32 NFL communities (nicely, those that cowl groups with first-round picks, anyway) choose the participant(s) they assume take advantage of sense for his or her groups to draft and share the thought course of behind these picks. We acquire all of these picks right here, linking out to the complete evaluation on every web site.
Following the Panthers’ blockbuster commerce with the Bears that put them within the No. 1 spot for the 2023 draft, Cat Scratch Reader held the No. 1 choose. We all know the Panthers are going to take a quarterback, however which one?
No. 1: Panthers choose C.J. Stroud, QB, Ohio State
Whereas the Panthers are mum on who they wish to take at No. 1 as of this writing, we consider they have already got their minds made up, and that’s for former Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud. Stroud posted a stat line of 575 completions on 830 makes an attempt for 8,123 passing yards and 85 touchdowns with solely 12 interceptions as just about the consensus greatest pocket passer on this draft. One of many principal issues with Stroud pre-draft is making performs outdoors of construction and utilizing his legs, nevertheless he demonstrated there’s extra to his sport there in opposition to Georgia within the Peach Bowl final season. – Brian Beversluis, Cat Scratch Reader
No. 2: Texans choose Bryce Younger, QB, Alabama
… he may flourish positioned behind the very best paid left sort out within the NFL, Laremy Tunsil, and guarded by the remainder of the rebuilt Houston offensive line. Handing the ball off to the 1-2 punch of Dameon Pierce and Devin Singletary. Throwing the ball to Nico Collins, John Metchie and whomever the Texans draft after Younger. Hitting his security valve Dalton Shultz in stride for main first downs. It’s time to lastly think about a potent Houston Texans offense, and drafting Bryce Younger makes that imaginative and prescient attainable. – Mike Bullock, Battle Pink Weblog
Keep tuned for the remainder of our first-round picks!
