Isn’t there more news out there than the 2022 NFL mock draft?
I get mock drafts during the previous off-season, when those athletes who will be in contention to be picked have completed college resumes. Not when the football, basketball and baseball players have another season to alter their pro potential.
The 2022 NFL mock drafts that are on every sports website are the dumbest exercise for one other reason. The yet-to-be-played NFL season will determine which teams draft when, and doesn’t that have everything to do with which players go ahead of others?
Sam Howell is in the middle of all these projections, and we don’t know what kind of a season Sam will have after losing some valuable weapons from last year, or which NFL teams will need a quarterback in the first round. So, right now, Howell is all over the boards.
He is the first-player picked on several mock drafts, and he’s not even the first quarterback taken on others. The CBS Sports mock draft has the players taken in order in the first round. But how can they make that prediction when it could be anywhere from Arizona to Washington with the first pick.
Meanwhile, players like Howell can’t help but read these mock drafts as agents and hangers-on get ready to pounce on their families with wild predictions of where and when their kids will go. Seriously, is there anything lamer in the world of sports?
And these mock drafts, without the drafting teams set, change from day to day. The same poll that had Howell as the No. 1 overall pick last week now has him No. 7 and the third QB selected. What a useless endeavor, except if you want to learn some new names.
For example, I now know that Southern Cal has a very good quarterback named Kedon Slovis, who is suddenly the hottest NFL QB-to-be, better than Howell and Oklahoma’s Spencer Rattler.
Sure, the mock drafters can say they are merging their picks with forecasts on how the NFL standings will wind up, and they are ready to make another big adjustment when and if Aaron Rodgers gets traded, leaving the Packers with an unproven quarterback who by this time next year may be good enough that Green Bay has no need at all.
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