33rd Team

It’s a tradition unlike any other… To post a 2023 NFL Mock Draft a full calendar year early is, to be entirely clear, a fools errand. Here at The 33rd Team, we debated the wisdom of doing so, knowing that players will return to school, get injured, have ups and downs, transfer or have some other unforeseen issue , and this mock will look completely different in six months when it will still be almost entirely wrong. Then, former NFL executive and The 33rd Team Co-Founder Joe Banner told a story on our Wednesday Huddle. He talked about how, in the days following up to the NFL Draft while he was in Cleveland, the team did work on the next year’s draft simply because they were nonplussed about the current crop of quarterbacks.