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● By Scott Smith

Accuracy: 24.28%243rd Place
What's better than doing your own NFL mock draft? Sitting around a table with three of your colleagues and hashing out the 32 first-round picks together. You get competing viewpoints, the occasional pat on the back for a popular pick, some unexpected developments and, for some reason in this case, diversions into such topics as donut holes, cheese walls and Katy Perry lyrics. That's what happened when Team Reporter Casey Phillips and Staff Writer/Reporter Brianna Dix joined Jeff Ryan and I on a Salty Dogs podcast. With the real draft just days away, we got together to hash out our annual collaborative mock draft and recorded the whole thing. We'd love it if you gave it a listen. You can also read the results below. Jeff and I picked for all the odd teams and Brianna and Casey took the even picks. If a pick was traded, we stayed with the teams in their new spots even if they changed from odd to even or vice versa. Each pick is followed by an excerpt from the podcast.

Top Players Not Included

These players appear in the top 32 of our

Consensus Big Board

, but do not show up in this mock.