2023 NFL mock draft: Alex Katson’s pre-free agency first-round projections

While pro days and top 30 meetings have yet to be completed and more than a month remains until the draft, the conclusion of the NFL Combine last week has brought a little bit of clarity into teams’ plans at the top of the order. Of course, we’ve seen smokescreens before, and what we perceive to be clarity could in fact be gamesmanship.

Either way, I thought I’d use the ever-accelerating rumor mill as an excuse to put together my first full mock draft of the draft cycle. While I did include trades, I did not include a general framework for compensation, so you’ll have to do that calculus yourself.