The Athletic

With the 2023 NFL Draft (finally) set to get underway Thursday, the timing was right to get our beat writers together one last time to see how they’d represent the team they cover with their first selection. Compared to our previous beat writer mock draft (on March 22), many of the names remained the same in Round 1, but the order of those names are jumbled after the first six selections. As with previous mock drafts, we encouraged our writers to trade picks to move up or down if they felt their team would do the same, but there was just one trade (the Eagles dealt the 30th pick to the Raiders). Here are how things played out: