Whiskey Riff

The day has finally arrived! This fine Thursday night, the 2024 NFL Draft will open in Detroit, and the Chicago Bears will select USC quarterback Caleb Williams No. 1 overall. You can already hear Roger Goodell rattling off that pick in your head. What happens from there is almost impossible to predict. And that’s the fun of mock drafts, too. Should I care about accuracy when it’s very rare to, in fact, be terribly accurate? I did well in 2022 by hitting each of the first seven picks, and more or less nailed the eighth. All told, I wound up 32nd in accuracy out of 1,247 mocks at NFL Mock Draft Database. BOOM! It’s hard to do that year in and year out, though. More often than not, this exercise of playing GM should be about pure fun more than precision. Without further ado, you can find my final 2024 NFL Mock Draft below, and you can read my top 100 big board and breakdown of all the top QBs at the link in this sentence.