I tried out the NFL Mock Draft Simulator

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(12-18-2023, 04:16 PM)dxdtdemon Wrote: Anyway, this was my first time using it, I didn't use any special settings. They had the Bengals picking 24th, and I would trade down a few picks if the top few players weren't in positions of need. Outside of missing on a TE who was just outside of the ten best remaining players when I went down a few spots in the second round, it didn't really seem to affect much of who I ended up picking.

24. Jer'Zhan Newton, DL, Illinois
61. Calen Bullock, S, USC (there just wasn't really anything that stood out either at 56 or at 61, and the TE seemed like a reach)
87. Sedrick Von Pran, IOL, Georgia
124. Kiran Amegadjie, OT, Yale
157. Luke Lachey, TE, Iowa
158. Ricky Pearsall, WR, Florida
163. Khyree Jackson, CB, Oregon
175. Xavier Thomas, Edge, Clemson
198. Jordan Travis, QB, Florida State
242. Sataoa Laumea, IOL, Utah
251. Jabari Small, RB, Tennessee

I watched a lot less college football than I usually do this year, so I'm not sure how good of a draft this is, but nflmockdraftdatabase.com gave most of these picks except for Bullock and the last two either an A or A+. I'm not sure how realistic this mock draft would be.

NFLMockDraftDatabase is pretty much my go to sim because their Big Board is actually the average of all the major draft site's big boards.  Because of that, you rarely run into unrealistic scenarios due to wonky player ratings(although the sim passing on guys they really shouldn't still happen from time to time).  This looks realistic from that end.

On the other hand, it's really hard to see us going defense with our first 2 picks after spending our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd there the past 2 drafts.  Newton and Bullock were probably the BPA's at those spots, but we are probably looking hard at T and WR with our 1st couple of picks.