First Pick 

Trigger Your Inner Ted Thompson  (last years thread)

Your Picks:
Round 1 Pick 30: Maxx Williams, TE, Minnesota (B+)
Round 2 Pick 30: Lorenzo Mauldin, OLB/DE, Louisville (C)
Round 3 Pick 30: Kevin White, CB, TCU (B+)
Round 4 Pick 30: Jake Ryan, OLB/ILB, Michigan (C-)
Round 5 Pick 30: Xavier Williams, DT, Northern Iowa (B)
Round 6 Pick 30: Shaquille Riddick, DE/OLB, West Virginia (C-)
Round 7 Pick 30: Aaron Ripkowski, FB, Oklahoma (D-)

Your Future Picks:
2016 Round 1 Pick
2017 Round 1 Pick

Not a very good draft I have to admit. Forgot to copy+paste my total score and grade so I had to back on my browser to get my picks. Don't know many of the prospects and I had to rely on the projected day they would go on. Tried to get Williams in the first and Perryman in the second but the bastard AI drafted him. They also tweaked the positions the players are drafted at for guys with more than position (like 4-3 DE/3-4 OLB tweener types). AI trade silliness still there. Didn't want to get into the trade insanity but Seattle offered a 2nd rounder to move up one spot in the 1st which if happened in real life I'm pretty sure Ted would accept, hang up the phone and burst out laughing with the rest of the war room.

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Go ahead and give it a try!

http://www.first-pick.com/ 

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Wow, that was difficult after the 1st round.
I was picking BPA all the way and found I had the choice of a lot of guys I never heard of and scouts didn't have much good to say about.
I'm kicking myself for not taking the punter from Michigan State and WR Kenny Bell from Nebraska.
In a moment of frustration I took a kicker.

Eat your heart out




Your score is: 4811 (GRADE: A-)

Your Picks:
Round 1 Pick 31 (SEA): Trae Waynes, CB, Michigan State (A-)
Round 3 Pick 2 (TENN): Rashad Greene, WR, Florida State (B+)
Round 4 Pick 1 (TENN): Markus Golden, OLB/ILB, Missouri (B+)
Round 4 Pick 4 (JAX): Tyler Lockett, WR, Kansas State (C+)
Round 4 Pick 9 (NYG): Ibraheim Campbell, SS, Northwestern (B)
Round 4 Pick 30: Jeff Heuerman, TE, Ohio State (A-)
Round 5 Pick 2 (TENN): Corey Crawford, DE, Clemson (A-)
Round 5 Pick 3 (JAX): Anthony Chickillo, DE, Miami (Fla.) (B)
Round 5 Pick 8 (NYG): Ellis McCarthy, DT, UCLA (B+)
Round 5 Pick 30: Karlos Williams, RB, Florida State (B-)
Round 6 Pick 1 (TENN): Taiwan Jones, ILB, Michigan State (C)
Round 6 Pick 30: Shaquille Riddick, DE/OLB, West Virginia (C-)
Round 6 Pick 32 (TENN): Jarvis Harrison, OG, Texas A&M (E)
Round 7 Pick 3 (JAX): Tra'Mayne Bondurant, FS, Arizona (E)
Round 7 Pick 4 (OAK): Blake Sims, QB, Alabama (C)
Round 7 Pick 31 (SEA): Wes Saxton, TE, South Alabama (A)

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Best I could get...

Your score is: 5666 (GRADE: A)

Your Picks:
Round 1 Pick 30: Maxx Williams, TE, Minnesota (A-)
Round 2 Pick 30: Denzel Perryman, ILB/OLB, Miami (Fla.) (A)
Round 3 Pick 30: Jamison Crowder, WR, Duke (A)
Round 4 Pick 30: Tyler Lockett, WR, Kansas State (A)
Round 5 Pick 30: Xzavier Dickson, OLB, Alabama (B+)
Round 6 Pick 30: Nick Marshall, CB/QB, Auburn (A)
Round 7 Pick 30: Detrick Bonner, FS, Virginia Tech (C+)

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Your score is: 6258 (GRADE: A)

Your Picks:
Round 2 Pick 4 (JAX): P.J. Williams, CB, Florida State (A-)
Round 2 Pick 30: Jaelen Strong, WR, Arizona State (A)
Round 3 Pick 6 (NYJ): Jay Ajayi, RB, Boise State (A)
Round 3 Pick 30: Nelson Agholor, WR, Southern California (A)
Round 4 Pick 5 (NYJ): Nick O'Leary, TE, Florida State (A)
Round 5 Pick 8 (NYG): Martrell Spaight, OLB, Arkansas (B-)
Round 5 Pick 30: Taiwan Jones, ILB, Michigan State (A-)
Round 6 Pick 10 (NYG): Xavier Williams, DT, Northern Iowa (A-)
Round 6 Pick 30: Shane Carden, QB, East Carolina (A)
Round 7 Pick 30: Rannell Hall, WR, UCF (A-)

Your Future Picks:
2016 Round 1 Pick
2017 Round 1 Pick

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For all my frustration I ended up with 5023 for an A-.

Your score is: 5311 (GRADE: A-)

Your Picks:
Round 1 Pick 30: Benardrick McKinney, ILB, Mississippi State (B+)
Round 2 Pick 30: Dorial Green-Beckham, WR, Oklahoma (A)
Round 3 Pick 30: Ben Koyack, TE, Notre Dame (A-)
Round 4 Pick 30: Anthony Chickillo, DE, Miami (Fla.) (A)
Round 5 Pick 30: Ben Heeney, ILB, Kansas (C+)
Round 6 Pick 30: Craig Mager, CB, Texas State (A-)
Round 7 Pick 30: Derrick Malone Jr., OLB, Oregon (B+)

Whiffed on Ben Heeney but if it was me I would double up on ILB

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Psst Zero, you should use the search option to look for similar threads  before creating new ones ::wink:

Your score is: 5140 (GRADE: A-)

Your Picks:
Round 1 Pick 30: Benardrick McKinney, ILB, Mississippi State (B+)
Round 2 Pick 31 (SEA): Clive Walford, TE, Miami (Fla.) (A)
Round 3 Pick 30: Lorenzo Mauldin, OLB/DE, Louisville (A)
Round 4 Pick 30: Lorenzo Doss, CB, Tulane (B+)
Round 4 Pick 31 (SEA): Tyler Lockett, WR, Kansas State (A)
Round 5 Pick 30: Leterrius Walton, DT, Central Michigan (B)
Round 6 Pick 30: Tevin McDonald, FS/SS, Eastern Washington (C)
Round 7 Pick 30: Marcus Murphy, RB, Missouri (C-)

Hmm a B+ for McKinney when they have him as a day 1 guy and list ILB as a need for GB? 😕

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I figured I'd do a somewhat realistic draft, first... One I'd be rather happy to see.

Your score is: 4590 (GRADE: B+)

Your Picks:
Round 1 Pick 31 (SEA): Melvin Gordon, RB, Wisconsin (A)
Round 2 Pick 30: Kevin Johnson, CB, Wake Forest (B+)
Round 3 Pick 1 (T.B.): Ellis McCarthy, DT, UCLA (D+)
Round 3 Pick 30: Rashad Greene, WR, Florida State (A)
Round 3 Pick 31 (SEA): Cedric Ogbuehi, OT, Texas A&M (B-)
Round 4 Pick 11 (MINN): Jake Ryan, OLB/ILB, Michigan (D)
Round 4 Pick 17 (HOU): Jeff Heuerman, TE, Ohio State (B)
Round 4 Pick 30: Charles Gaines, CB, Louisville (C-)
Round 5 Pick 30: Zack Hodges, OLB, Harvard (A)
Round 6 Pick 30: Brandon Bridge, QB, South Alabama (D-)
Round 7 Pick 30: Wil Baumann, P, North Carolina State (D-)

Your Future Picks:
2016 Round 1 Pick
2017 Round 1 Pick

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Then I decided to do it the game's way. Only to screw that up in the last rounds.

Your score is: 5333 (GRADE: A-)

Your Picks:
Round 2 Pick 2 (T.B.): Todd Gurley, RB, Georgia (A-)
Round 2 Pick 30: Breshad Perriman, WR, UCF (A)
Round 3 Pick 9 (ATL): Kevin Johnson, CB, Wake Forest (A)
Round 3 Pick 30: Derron Smith, FS, Fresno State (A)
Round 4 Pick 8 (ATL): Henry Anderson, DE, Stanford (B+)
Round 4 Pick 10 (T.B.): Rashad Greene, WR, Florida State (A)
Round 4 Pick 30: Anthony Chickillo, DE, Miami (Fla.) (B-)
Round 5 Pick 30: Taiwan Jones, ILB, Michigan State (A-)
Round 6 Pick 32 (TENN): Craig Mager, CB, Texas State (C+)
Round 7 Pick 3 (JAX): Antwan Goodley, WR, Baylor (D)
Round 7 Pick 30: Gerald Christian, TE, Louisville (D+)

Your Future Picks:
2016 Round 1 Pick
2017 Round 1 Pick

I think that's because he's not a surefire first rounder. Maybe need will drive him up a bit, with a big decline in skill behind Perryman, Kendricks and him, but just going on value alone, I wouldn't be surprised if he's around the 50th pick on a lot of teams boards.