CNN's 2018 Mock Draft 1.0

[CJD]

I know PFF isn't the best representation of how good a player is, but our two starting safeties were actually pretty good last year.

I put together a list of all the PFF ratings of our players this year by position:
https://imgur.com/a/FOjCC

I put it on a gradient from red to green to indicate the relative weaknesses of our team and, while our safeties were in the high 70s, which is considered average on a national scale, they were light green relative to our roster.

I am an advocate for BPA most of the time, but when I look at those areas for LB and OT, it really makes me sad haha. There's only 1 non-red OLineman, Boling, and there's only 1 non-red LB, Burfict (Bell is orange, but he played in clean up duty and is not considered a long term option by most).

The first round isn't the only round, but I'd feel pretty bad about any draft where we don't get a premium player at one of those two position groups with our highest and most impactful pick.

I salivate at the idea of having Derwin James roaming our back field but this is a year where we, unfortunately, need to focus a bit more on need than BPA, as gross as that is to say.

Good mock draft though if we were to go BPA :).