2015 Mock NFL Draft Version 4.0 – Winston Still Undoubtedly No. 1

Less than a month before the 2015 NFL Draft, and Jameis Winston continues to assert himself as the likely first overall pick in this year’s draft.

Marcus Mariota is bumped back up to No. 2, but I’m not sure if he will be picked by Tennessee.  This mock draft does not account for draft-day trades.

This is also the first draft that goes through all seven rounds.

First Round:

PICK	TEAM	PLAYER	POS.	SCHOOL
1	TB	Jameis Winston	QB	Florida State
2	TEN	Marcus Mariota	QB	Oregon
3	JAC	Dante Fowler Jr.	DE	Florida
4	OAK	Kevin White	WR	West Virginia
5	WSH	Amari Cooper	WR	Alabama
6	NYJ	Vic Beasley	OLB	Clemson
7	CHI	DeVante Parker	WR	Louisville
8	ATL	Trae Waynes	CB	Michigan State
9	NYG	Leonard Williams	DT	USC
10	STL	Brandon Scherff	OT	Iowa
11	MIN	Landon Collins	SS	Alabama
12	CLE	Danny Shelton	DT	Washington
13	NO	Malcom Brown	DT	Texas
14	MIA	Melvin Gordon	RB	Wisconsin
15	SF	Alvin Dupree	DE	Kentucky
16	HOU	Jalen Collins	CB	LSU
17	SD	Eddie Goldman	DT	Florida State
18	KC	T.J. Clemmings	OT	Pittsburgh
19	CLE (from BUF)	Shane Ray	OLB	Missouri
20	PHI	Jake Fisher	OT	Oregon
21	CIN	Shaq Thompson	OLB	Washington
22	PIT	Arik Armstead	DE	Oregon
23	DET	Todd Gurley	RB	Georgia
24	ARZ	Marcus Peters	CB	Washington
25	CAR	Owamagbe Odighizuwa	DE	UCLA
26	BAL	Jaelen Strong	WR	Arizona State
27	DAL	Preston Smith	DE	Mississippi State
28	DEN	La’el Collins	OT	LSU
29	IND	Jordan Phillips	DT	Oklahoma
30	GB	Eric Kendricks	ILB	UCLA
31	NO (from SEA)	Maxx Williams	TE	Minnesota
32	NE	Dorial Green-Beckham	WR	Missouri

Second Round:

PICK	TEAM	PLAYER	POS.	SCHOOL
33	TEN	Andrus Peat	OT	Stanford
34	TB	Ereck Flowers	OT	Miami (FL)
35	OAK	Danielle Hunter	DE	LSU
36	JAC	Cameron Erving	C	Florida State
37	NYJ	Sammie Coates	WR	Auburn
38	WSH	Carl Davis	DE	Iowa
39	CHI	Randy Gregory	OLB	Nebraska
40	NYG	A.J. Cann	G	South Carolina
41	STL	D.J. Humphries	OT	Florida
42	ATL	Eli Harold	OLB	Virginia
43	CLE	Nelson Agholor	WR	USC
44	NO	Paul Dawson	ILB	TCU
45	MIN	Kevin Johnson	CB	Wake Forest
46	SF	Benardrick McKinney	ILB	Mississippi State
47	MIA	Breshad Perriman	WR	Central Florida
48	SD	Jay Ajayi	RB	Boise State
49	KC	Byron Jones	CB	Connecticut
50	BUF	Brett Hundley	QB	UCLA
51	HOU	Tevin Coleman	RB	Indiana
52	PHI	Laken Tomlinson	G	Duke
53	CIN	Michael Bennett	DT	Ohio State
54	DET	Nate Orchard	DE	Utah
55	ARZ	Donovan Smith	OT	Penn State
56	PIT	Quinten Rollins	CB	Miami (OH)
57	CAR	Rashad Greene	WR	Florida State
58	BAL	Xavier Cooper	DE	Washington State
59	DEN	Clive Walford	TE	Miami (FL)
60	DAL	P.J. Williams	CB	Florida State
61	IND	Denzel Perryman	ILB	Miami (FL)
62	GB	Alex Carter	CB	Stanford
63	SEA	Duke Johnson	RB	Miami (FL)
64	NE	Reese Dismukes	C	Auburn

Third Round:

PICK	TEAM	PLAYER	POS.	SCHOOL
65	TB	Mario Edwards Jr.	DE	Florida State
66	TEN	Devin Funchess	WR	Michigan
67	JAC	Ameer Abdullah	RB	Nebraska
68	OAK	Tyler Lockett	WR	Kansas State
69	WSH	Lorenzo Mauldin	OLB	Louisville
70	NYJ	Cody Prewitt	FS	Ole Miss
71	CHI	Henry Anderson	DE	Stanford
72	STL	Ali Marpet	G	Hobart
73	ATL	Grady Jarrett	DT	Clemson
74	NYG	Phillip Dorsett	WR	Miami (FL)
75	NO	Josh Shaw	CB	USC
76	MIN	Jeremy Langford	RB	Michigan State
77	CLE	Rob Havenstein	OT	Wisconsin
78	NO (from MIA)	Hau’oli Kikaha	OLB	Washington
79	SF	Devin Smith	WR	Ohio State
80	KC	Hroniss Grasu	C	Oregon
81	BUF	Tre’ Jackson	G	Florida State
82	HOU	Stephone Anthony	ILB	Clemson
83	SD	Travis Raciti	DE	San Jose State
84	PHI	Ronald Darby	CB	Florida State
85	CIN	Ty Sambrailo	OT	Colorado State
86	ARZ	Markus Golden	DE	Missouri
87	PIT	Mitch Morse	OT	Missouri
88	DET	Kwon Alexander	OLB	LSU
89	CAR	D’Joun Smith	CB	Florida Atlantic
90	BAL	Derron Smith	FS	Fresno State
91	DAL	Bryce Petty	QB	Baylor
92	DEN	T.J. Yeldon	RB	Alabama
93	IND	Justin Hardy	WR	East Carolina
94	GB	Ellis McCarthy	DT	UCLA
95	SEA	Marcus Hardison	DT	Arizona State
96	NE	Anthony Harris	SS	Virginia
97	NE*	Arie Kouandjio	G	Alabama
98	KC*	Max Valles	OLB	Virginia
99	CIN*	Steve Nelson	CB	Oregon State

Fourth Round:

PICK	TEAM	PLAYER	POS.	SCHOOL
100	TEN	Damarious Randall	FS	Arizona State
101	NE (from TB)	Gabe Wright	DT	Auburn
102	OAK	Cedric Ogbuehi	OT	Texas A&M
103	JAC	Javorius Allen	RB	USC
104	NYJ	Taiwan Jones	ILB	Michigan State
105	WSH	B.J. Finney	C	Kansas State
106	CHI	Doran Grant	CB	Ohio State
107	ATL	Za’Darius Smith	DE	Kentucky
108	NYG	Anthony Chickillo	DE	Miami (FL)
109	TB (from STL)	Martrell Spaight	OLB	Arkansas
110	MIN	Tyler Kroft	TE	Rutgers
111	CLE	Brian Mihalik	DE	Boston College
112	SEA (from NO)	Tre’ McBride	WR	William & Mary
113	PHI (from SF, BUF)	Trey Flowers	OLB	Arkansas
114	MIA	Hayes Pullard	OLB	USC
115	CLE (from BUF)	Jamil Douglas	G	Arizona State
116	HOU	Kenny Bell	WR	Nebraska
117	SD	Cedric Reed	OLB	Texas
118	KC	Ramik Wilson	ILB	Georgia
119	STL (from PHI)	Rakeem Nunez-Roches	DT	Southern Miss
120	CIN	Daryl Williams	OT	Oklahoma
121	PIT	Austin Shepherd	G	Alabama
122	BAL (from DET)	Eric Rowe	CB	Utah
123	ARZ	Garrett Grayson	QB	Colorado State
124	CAR	David Johnson	RB	Northern Iowa
125	BAL	Andy Gallik	C	Boston College
126	SF (from DEN)	Jaquiski Tartt	SS	Samford
127	DAL	Tony Lippett	WR	Michigan State
128	IND	Gerod Holliman	FS	Louisville
129	GB	Jamison Crowder	WR	Duke
130	SEA	Jacoby Glenn	CB	Central Florida
131	NE	Sean Hickey	OT	Syracuse
132	SF*	Leterrius Walton	DT	Central Michigan
133	DEN*	Trey Williams	RB	Texas A&M
134	SEA*	Lynden Trail	DE	Norfolk State
135	CIN*	Josh Harper	WR	Fresno State
136	BAL*	Mike Davis	RB	South Carolina

Fifth Round

PICK	TEAM	PLAYER	POS.	SCHOOL
137	MIN (from TB, BUF)	Christian Covington	DT	Rice
138	TEN	Kevin White	CB	TCU
139	JAC	Ben Heeney	OLB	Kansas
140	OAK	Ifo Ekpre-Olomu	CB	Oregon
141	WSH	James Sample	SS	Louisville
142	CHI (from NYJ)	Durrell Eskridge	FS	Syracuse
143	DEN (from CHI)	Shaquille Mason	C	Georgia Tech
144	NYG	B.J. Dubose	DE	Louisville
145	PHI (from STL)	Ibraheim Campbell	SS	Northwestern
146	ATL	Trey DePriest	ILB	Alabama
147	CLE	Charles Gaines	CB	Louisville
148	NO	Shane Carden	QB	East Carolina
149	MIA (from MIN)	Terry Poole	OT	San Diego State
150	MIA	Jeff Luc	ILB	Cincinnati
151	SF	David Cobb	RB	Minnesota
152	HOU	MyCole Pruitt	TE	Southern Illinois
153	SD	Robert Myers	G	Tennessee State
154	NO (from KC)	Jeremiah Poutasi	G	Utah
155	BUF	Ben Koyack	TE	Notre Dame
156	PHI	Dezmin Lewis	WR	Central Arkansas
157	CIN	John Miller	G	Louisville
158	BAL (from DET)	Zach Hodges	OLB	Harvard
159	ARZ	Geneo Grissom	OLB	Oklahoma
160	PIT	Nick O’Leary	TE	Florida State
161	CAR	Tony Washington	OLB	Oregon
162	TB (from BAL)	Lorenzo Doss	CB	Tulane
163	DAL	Kaleb Eulls	DT	Mississippi State
164	DEN	Bryce Hager	ILB	Baylor
165	IND	Senquez Golson	CB	Ole Miss
166	GB	Stefon Diggs	WR	Maryland
167	SEA	Corey Crawford	OLB	Clemson
168	TB (from NE)	B.J. Catalon	RB	TCU
169	CAR*	Laurence Gibson	OT	Virginia Tech
170	SEA*	Justin Cox	FS	Mississippi State
171	BAL*	Joey Mbu	DT	Houston
172	KC*	Darren Waller	WR	Georgia Tech
173	KC*	Deion Barnes	OLB	Penn State
174	HOU*	Tavaris Barnes	DE	Clemson
175	BAL*	Josue Matias	OG	Florida State

Sixth Round:

PICK	TEAM	PLAYER	POS.	SCHOOL
176	TEN	Amarlo Herrera	ILB	Georgia
177	NE (from TB)	Jalston Fowler	FB	Alabama
178	OAK	Xavier Williams	DT	Northern Iowa
179	JAC	Ladarius Gunter	CB	Miami (FL)
180	SEA (from NYJ)	Blake Bell	TE	Oklahoma
181	WSH	Josh Robinson	RB	Mississippi State
182	CHI	Terrance Plummer	ILB	Central Florida
183	TB (from STL)	Kurtis Drummond	FS	Michigan State
184	ATL	Jeff Heuerman	TE	Ohio State
185	NYG	Jake Ryan	OLB	Michigan
186	NO	Max Garcia	C	Florida
187	BUF (from MIN)	Ty Montgomery	WR	Stanford
188	CLE	Zach Vigil	ILB	Utah State
189	SF	Jesse James	TE	Penn State
190	MIA	Ben Beckwith	G	Mississippi State
191	SD	Austin Hill	WR	Arizona
192	KC	Cameron Artis-Payne	RB	Auburn
193	BUF	Clayton Geathers	SS	Central Florida
194	HOU	Chris Hackett	FS	TCU
195	PHI	Quandre Diggs	CB	Texas
196	CIN	Wes Saxton	TE	South Alabama
197	ARZ	Derrick Lott	DT	Chattanooga
198	PIT	Matt Jones	RB	Florida
199	DET	Louis Trinca-Pasat	DT	Iowa
200	CAR	Chaz Green	OT	Florida
201	CLE (from BAL)	Justin Manton	PK	Louisiana-Monroe
202	DEN	Sean Mannion	QB	Oregon State
203	BAL (from DAL)	Antwan Goodley	WR	Baylor
204	IND	Ray Drew	DE	Georgia
205	GB	Xzavier Dickson	OLB	Alabama
206	IND (from SEA)	Terrence McGee	RB	LSU
207	TEN (from NE)	Greg Mancz	C	Toledo
208	DEN*	Deon Simon	DT	Northwestern State
209	SEA*	Derrick Malone	OLB	Oregon
210	GB*	Daryl Waud	DE	Western Ontario
211	HOU*	Jordan Hicks	OLB	Texas
212	GB*	Jordan Richards	SS	Stanford
213	CAR*	Zach Zenner	FB	South Dakota State
214	SEA*	Adam Shead	G	Oklahoma
215	STL*	Chris Conley	WR	Georgia
216	HOU*	Marcus Murphy	RB	Missouri
217	KC*	E.J. Bibbs	TE	Iowa State

Seventh Round

PICK	TEAM	PLAYER	POS.	SCHOOL
218	TB	Curtis Grant	ILB	Ohio State
219	NE (from TEN)	Nick Marshall	CB	Auburn
220	JAC	Deontay Greenberry	WR	Houston
221	OAK	Kyshoen Jarrett	SS	Virginia Tech
222	WSH	Cody Riggs	CB	Notre Dame
223	NYJ	Karlos Williams	RB	Florida State
224	NYJ (from CHI)	Vince Mayle	WR	Washington State
225	ATL	J.R. Tavai	OLB	USC
226	NYG	Adrian Amos	FS	Penn State
227	ATL (from STL)	Titus Davis	WR	Central Michigan
228	MIN	Alani Fua	OLB	BYU
229	CLE	Malcolm Brown	RB	Texas
230	NO	Tyler Varga	FB	Yale
231	DET (from MIA, BAL)	Kyle Loomis	P	Portland State
232	MIN (from SF, MIA)	Ryan Russell	DE	Purdue
233	KC	Davis Tull	OLB	UT-Chattanooga
234	BUF	Zach Wagenmann	OLB	Montana
235	HOU	J.J. Nelson	WR	UAB
236	DAL (from SD)	David Helton	OLB	Duke
237	PHI	Nick Boyle	TE	Delaware
238	CIN	Shaquille Riddick	DE	West Virginia
239	PIT	Dres Anderson	WR	Utah
240	DET	JaCorey Shepherd	CB	Kansas
241	ARZ	Thomas Rawls	RB	Central Michigan
242	CAR	Miles Dieffenbach	G	Penn State
243	DAL (from BAL)	Darius Philon	DT	Arkansas
244	IND (from DAL)	Anthony Jefferson	SS	UCLA
245	NYG (from DEN)	Cam Thomas	CB	Western Kentucky
246	SF (from IND)	Connor Halliday	QB	Washington State
247	GB	Tyrus Thompson	OT	Oklahoma
248	SEA	Mario Alford	WR	West Virginia
249	ATL (from NE, STL)	Isaiah Johnson	SS	Georgia Tech
250	DEN*	Jarvis Harrison	G	Texas A&M
251	DEN*	Aaron Davis	OLB	Colorado State
252	PIT*	Kyle Emanuel	OLB	North Dakota State
253	NE*	Mike Hull	OLB	Penn State
254	SF*	Deshazor Everett	CB	Texas A&M
255	IND*	Dee Hart	RB	Colorado State
256	ARZ*	Mike Glowinski	G	West Virginia

*Compensatory Pick

DISCLAIMER:  Any likeness to any mock drafts done by the professionals is purely coincidental.  If you care to share, please give credit where credit is due.  In other words, don’t claim the work that someone else did as your own.

NFL Week 15 Picks (and then some)

The season is winding down, and it has become clear that at least one team with a losing record will likely make the playoffs.

Last Week: 11-5 (.688)

Overall: 137-70-1 (.657)

Cardinals vs. Rams

Steelers vs. Falcons

Redskins vs. Giants (Bad game #1)

Dolphins vs. Patriots

Raiders vs. Chiefs

Texans vs. Colts

Jaguars vs. Ravens

Packers vs. Bills

Buccaneers vs. Panthers (Bad game #2; Panthers should win regardless of whether it is Newton or Anderson.)

Bengals vs. Browns

Jets vs. Titans (Bad game #3)

Broncos vs. Chargers

Vikings vs. Lions

49ers vs. Seahawks

Cowboys vs. Eagles

Saints vs. Bears (Bad game #4)

But wait, there’s more…

It’s not worth making a post for one game, but there is one last regular season college football game.

Last Week: 9-5 (.643)

Overall: 289-83 (.777)

Navy vs. Army

NFL Week 17 Picks

It is the final week of the NFL regular season, and there are several key games to wrap up this 2013 season.

Last Week:  9-7 (.563)

Overall:  150-89-1 (.625)

Panthers vs. Falcons

Ravens vs. Bengals

Texans vs. Titans (Titans finish off the disaster that has been Houston’s season.)

Jaguars vs. Colts

Jets vs. Dolphins

Lions vs. Vikings

Redskins vs. Giants (Kirk Cousins won’t go winless in his stretch as starter.)

Browns vs. Steelers

Packers vs. Bears (Aaron Rodgers’ return sparks the Packers.)

Broncos vs. Raiders

Bills vs. Patriots

Buccaneers vs. Saints

49ers vs. Cardinals

Chiefs vs. Chargers (Chargers are hot, and the Chiefs are limping into the playoffs.)

Rams vs. Seahawks

Eagles vs. Cowboys (Romo or no Romo, Eagles win.)

NFL Week 7 Picks

Last Week:  10-5 (.667)

Overall:  61-31 (.663)

Seahawks vs. Cardinals (Seattle has to start playing better on the road.)

Buccaneers vs. Falcons

Bengals vs. Lions

Bills vs. Dolphins

Patriots vs. Jets

Cowboys vs. Eagles

Bears vs. Redskins (This is the week the Redskins start to turn things around.)

Rams vs. Panthers

Chargers vs. Jaguars

49ers vs. Titans

Browns vs. Packers

Texans vs. Chiefs

Ravens vs. Steelers

Broncos vs. Colts

Vikings vs. Giants (This is the week the Giants get a win.)

NFL Picks Week 6

So far, this NFL season has been made up of the great teams (like Denver and Seattle), and the terrible teams (like the Giants and Jaguars).  All the other teams are in the middle.

With a few exceptions, it is way too early to try and figure out what teams will be contending at the end.

Last Week:  10-4 (.714)

Overall:  51-26 (.662)

Giants vs. Bears

Bengals vs. Bills (Doug Marrone needs to have something drawn up on offense, since Buffalo has no quarterbacks.)

Lions vs. Browns (Things were looking up for the Browns, and then Brian Hoyer tore his ACL.)

Raiders vs. Chiefs

Panthers vs. Vikings

Steelers vs. Jets

Eagles vs. Buccaneers (Eagles catch a break on its opponent with QB Michael Vick being out.)

Packers vs. Ravens

Rams vs. Texans

Jaguars vs. Broncos (Could this be the biggest mismatch in NFL history?)

Titans vs. Seahawks

Saints vs. Patriots

Cardinals vs. 49ers

Redskins vs. Cowboys (As painful as it is to say, the Cowboys are pretty good.)

Colts vs. Chargers

NFL Picks Week 4

Last week was not a good one, ending the run the start the season.  However, with the first teams taking bye weeks, you can begin to tell which teams are pretenders, and which teams are contenders.

Last Week:  7-9 (.438)

Overall:  31-17 (.646)

49ers vs. Rams (49ers have to get back on track.)

Ravens vs. Bills

Bengals vs. Browns (Sorry, Brian Hoyer, these aren’t the Vikings.)

Bears vs. Lions

Giants vs. Chiefs (The Chiefs are good, the Giants are not.)

Steelers vs. Vikings

Cardinals vs. Buccaneers

Colts vs. Jaguars

Seahawks vs. Texans (Houston players should have some bad tastes in their mouths following last week’s loss.)

Jets vs. Titans

Eagles vs. Broncos

Redskins vs. Raiders

Cowboys vs. Chargers

Patriots vs. Falcons

Dolphins vs. Saints

NFL Week 3 Picks

Here are the picks for this week, as it is beginning to become apparent which teams will be competing for a Super Bowl, and which teams are competing for the first pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, which just might be South Carolina DE Jadeveon Clowney.

Last Week:  12-4 (.750)

Overall:  24-8 (.750)

At least it’s consistent.

Chiefs vs. Eagles (Philadelphia and Chip Kelly’s offense are for real.)

Packers vs. Bengals

Rams vs. Cowboys

Chargers vs. Titans

Browns vs. Vikings

Buccaneers vs. Patriots

Cardinals vs. Saints

Lions vs. Redskins

Giants vs. Panthers (By rule, one of these teams will no longer be winless, unless it ends in a tie.)

Texans vs. Ravens (Last year, this is a great game.  Still is a good game, but Houston is just a little better.)

Falcons vs. Dolphins

Bills vs. Jets

Colts vs. 49ers

Jaguars vs. Seahawks

Bears vs. Steelers

Raiders vs. Broncos (Might be closer than people think.  Oakland usually plays really well on Monday nights.)

NFL Week 2 Picks

All of the opening day nerves are over as Week 2 of the NFL season approaches.  This weekend’s schedule is highlighted by the battle between Peyton and Eli Manning in the late game on Sunday.

Last Week:  12-4 (.750)

Jets vs. Patriots

Rams vs. Falcons

Panthers vs. Bills (This could be an exciting battle between Carolina’s Cam Newton and Buffalo’s E.J. Manuel.)

Vikings vs. Bears

Redskins vs. Packers

Dolphins vs. Colts

Cowboys vs. Chiefs

Chargers vs. Eagles

Browns vs. Ravens

Titans vs. Texans

Lions vs. Cardinals

Saints vs. Buccaneers

Jaguars vs. Raiders (The best of the worst games of the week.)

Broncos vs. Giants (If there is one thing that can be predicted, a Manning will win.)

49ers vs. Seahawks

Steelers vs. Bengals (Could we be seeing the beginning of the end of this era of the Pittsburgh Steelers?)