It's draft season and mock drafts all over the Internet are taking their shot at guessing how the first round of the 2016 NFL Draft will go, beginning with the Los Angeles Rams picking first after a trade to acquire the top pick from the Tennessee Titans two weeks before the first round begins.
With Marcus Mariota already holding down the fort at quarterback for the Titans, the position wasn't a need for the team, but it is for the Rams and that's presumably the reason the trade happened. Prior to the trade nearly half of experts projected Los Angeles to take a quarterback with the No. 15 pick.
By surveying as many mock drafts as possible, we can get a good idea of the directions experts expect most teams to go. And who doesn't love pie charts?
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A few notes:
- This will be updated consistently until draft day.
- Players selected just three times or fewer by a team are in the "others" category.
- With a lot of similar colors, I know some of the slices can be hard to tell apart (Sorry, Raiders fans). Hover over or click on the chart and it'll show the numbers and name for each individual slice. It also can be read like a clock with the names on the right representing the slices clockwise around the chart.
- All the mock drafts used are listed at the bottom.
No. 1 Los Angeles Rams (via Tennessee Titans)
No. 2 Philadelphia Eagles (via Cleveland Browns)
No. 3 San Diego Chargers
No. 4 Dallas Cowboys
No. 5 Jacksonville Jaguars
No. 6 Baltimore Ravens
No. 7 San Francisco 49ers
No. 8 Cleveland Browns (via Miami Dolphins through Philadelphia Eagles)
No. 9 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
No. 10 New York Giants
No. 11 Chicago Bears
No. 12 New Orleans Saints
No. 13 Miami Dolphins (via Philadelphia Eagles)
No. 14 Oakland Raiders
No. 15 Tennessee Titans (via Los Angeles Rams)
No. 16 Detroit Lions
No. 17 Atlanta Falcons
No. 18 Indianapolis Colts
No. 19 Buffalo Bills
No. 20 New York Jets
No. 21 Washington
No. 22 Houston Texans
No. 23 Minnesota Vikings
No. 24 Cincinnati Bengals
No. 25 Pittsburgh Steelers
No. 26 Seattle Seahawks
No. 27 Green Bay Packers
No. 28 Kansas City Chiefs
No. 29 Arizona Cardinals
No. 30 Carolina Panthers
No. 31 Denver Broncos
*New England Patriots first-round pick was forfeited for DeflateGate