NFL Mock Draft: Updated order and picks after Wild Card weekend

Wild Card Weekend is now behind us, which means it’s time for some more teams to look ahead to the NFL Draft.

Even if your team is still in the playoffs, let’s look at a totally way too early knee-jerk mock to kick off the time of year where we will only see more of these with each passing week.

1. Cleveland Browns — Josh Rosen, QB/UCLA
2. New York Giants  –Orlando Brown, OT/Oklahoma
3. Indianapolis Colts — Mike McGlinchey, OT/Notre Dame
4. Cleveland Browns (via Houston) –Minkah Fitzpatrick, S/Alabama
5. Denver Broncos — Sam Darnold, QB/USC
6. New York Jets –Baker Mayfield, QB/Oklahoma
7. Tampa Bay Buccaneers — Saquon Barkley, RB/Penn State
8. Chicago Bears –Calvin Ridley, WR/Alabama
9. San Francisco 49ers — Bradley Chubb, DE/NC State
10. Oakland Raiders — Roquan Smith, LB/Georgia

Why aren’t the Giants taking a quarterback? David Gettelman is a great evaluator of talent and he knows that Eli Manning isn’t the long-term answer. He also knows that the quarterback class this year is being hailed as worse than last year, and grabbing a stud offensive lineman to act as a pillar for the future will benefit him when his franchise quarterback does become available.

If that happens, then the Broncos will be in a tough spot. New York passing on Darnold means he’d be there at No. 5 overall, but that’s assuming a team doesn’t trade up to get him. If he falls there, John Elway won’t waste any time sprinting up to the podium and delivering that card himself.

Tampa Bay passing on a pass rusher might be tough, but the backlash over the team passing on Dalvin Cook last year was fierce. Bradley Chubb will probably be the pick, but if Barkley is there it’s going to be hard to pass on adding him to that dynamic offense.

11. Miami Dolphins — Bryce Love, RB, Stanford
12. Cincinnati Bengals — Quenton Nelson, G/Notre Dame
13. Washington Redskins — Derwin James, S/Florida State
14. Green Bay Packers — Arden Key, DE/OLB/LSU
15. Arizona Cardinals –Josh Allen, QB/Wyoming
16. Baltimore Ravens –Courtland Sutton, WR/SMU
17. Los Angeles Chargers — Connor Williams, OT/Texas
18. Seattle Seahawks — Kolton Miller, OT, UCLA
19. Dallas Cowboys –Christian Wilkins, DT/Clemson
20. Detroit Lions — Marcus Davenport, DE/Texas-San Antonio

Miami taking Bryce Love is controversial, but someone is going to be that team to take him earlier than he should go. Ryan Tannehill needs weapons, and adding someone who could be a Le’Veon Bell or Christian McCaffrey is could go a long way in making Adam Gase’s offensive schemes work.

The rest of these teams are currently in the playoffs, so their draft positioning will almost certainly change based on who gets eliminated when.

21. Buffalo Bills — Mason Rudolph, QB/Oklahoma State
22. Buffalo Bills (via Kansas City) –Da’Ron Payne, DT, Alabama
23. Los Angeles Rams — Denzel Ward, CB/Ohio State
24. Carolina Panthers — Courtland Sutton, WR/SMU
25. Tennessee Titans — Sam Hubbard, DE/Ohio State
26. Jacksonville Jaguars — Lamar Jackson, QB/Louisville
27. Atlanta Falcons — Vita Vea, DT, Washington
28. New Orleans Saints — Rashaan Evans, LB/Alabama
29. Minnesota Vikings — Isaiah Wynn, OL, Georgia
30. Pittsburgh Steelers –Joshua Jackson, CB/Iowa
31. Philadelphia Eagles — Chukwuma Okorafor, OT/Western Michigan
32. New England Patriots — Harold Landry, DE-OLB/Boston College

If Lamar Jackson lasts this long, the Bills will not be the team that takes him. All indications point towards Buffalo valuing a system pocket passer, and Jackson is a better version of Tyrod Taylor. Jacksonville taking him and almost makes too much sense and could be the missing piece holding the team back from being true Super Bowl contenders every year that defense is as good as it was this season.

Be sure to check back on Tuesday for an even more in-depth Mock Draft.