Joel Klatt
College Football Analyst
Let the speculation begin.
With the NFL season officially coming to a close after the Kansas City Chiefs were crowned Super Bowl champions, football fans now shift their focus to the 2024 NFL Draft, which is just over two months away.
The draft is one of the most fun events on the football calendar, and it’s very different from what I get to do in the fall, which is talk about college football and things that are more concrete. The lead-up to the NFL Draft, for the most part, is speculative.
With that said, I’m going to offer up my first mock draft of the NFL offseason. The beauty of a first mock draft is that you are allowed to be creative and throw out some scenarios that are really fun, which is exactly what I did with my mock draft 1.0.
Here is a look at my complete 2024 first-round NFL mock draft:
1. Chicago Bears – QB Caleb Williams, USC
I truly believe Chicago is going to end up trading Justin Fields and pick Williams with the No. 1 overall pick. I know that this is the consensus, but there are a lot of things that make sense in this pick for me. Williams’ talent can’t be overlooked. He’s been the closest thing to Patrick Mahomes in college football for the last two years. In so many ways, he’s even more polished and, at least in college, was better than Mahomes was at Texas Tech.
Williams carries so many of those same traits that make Mahomes almost impossible to beat in the postseason. He has the ability to make plays outside of the pocket and is absolutely deadly on the run, which I think is his best attribute.
What will the Bears do with Caleb Williams, Justin Fields in the NFL draft?
This isn’t an indictment on Fields. I don’t think that this is a conversation or an evaluation between the two specific players because the details surrounding these players are so vastly different. Remember, you’re looking at Fields entering the fourth year of a rookie deal,…
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Publish date : 2024-02-15 00:19:21
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