2014 NFL Mock Draft

Pick	Team	Player	College	Position
1	Houston	Jadevown Clowney	South Carolina	DE
2	St. Louis	Sammy Watkins	Clemson	WR
3	Jacksonville	Blake Bortles	UCF	QB
4	Cleveland	Derek Carr	Fresno State	QB
5	Oakland	Johnny Manziel	Texas A&M	QB
6	Atlanta	Greg Robinson	Auburn	OT
7	Tampa Bay	Khalil Mack	Buffalo	OLB
8	Minnesota	Teddy Bridgewater	Louisville	QB
9	Buffalo	Jake Mathews	Texas A&M	OT
10	Detroit	Justin Gilbert	Oklahoma State	CB
11	Tennessee	Anthony Barr	UCLA	OLB
12	New York G	Aaron Donald	Pittsburgh	DT
13	St. Louis	Eric Ebron	North Carolina	TE
14	Chicago	Darqueze Dennard	Michigan State	CB
15	Pittsburgh	Mike Evans	Texas A&M	WR
16	Dallas	Dee Ford	Auburn	DE
17	Baltimore	Ha Ha Clinton-Dix	Alabama	FS
18	New York J	Brandin Cooks	Oregon State	WR
19	Miami	Taylor Lewtan	Michigan	OT
20	Arizona	Zach Martin	Notre Dame	OT
21	Green Bay	Marqise Lee	USC	WR
22	Philadelphia	Stephon Tuitt	Notre Dame	DT
23	Kansas City	Odell Beckham Jr.	LSU	WR
24	Cincinnati	Calvin Pryor	Louisville	FS
25	San Diego	Jace Amaro	Texas Tech	TE
26	Cleveland	Kelvin Benjamin	Florida State	WR
27	New Orleans	Ryan Shazier	Ohio State	OLB
28	Carolina	Bradley Roby	Ohio State	CB
29	New England	ReShede Hageman	Minnesota	DT
30	San Francisco	Gabe Jackson	Mississippi State	OG
31	Denver	Kyle Van Noy	BYU	OLB
32	Seattle	Austin Seferian-Jenkins	Washington	TE

Story of the first round: QB Blake Bortles to Jacksonville

            Rumors swirled a week ago about Houston possibly trading their pick to the Buffalo Bills, and while there seems to be little traction with this development, one thing is clear, that the Houston Texans seem have to have no intention on drafting a quarterback with their first pick. It would not make much sense for them to want to trade down and hope their signal caller of the future is there in the first round. So if they are unable to trade the first pick, which seems to be the case so far, they will select the best player in the drat, and that should be Jadevown Clowney.

            But if that happens I believe the Jaguars will be forced to select a quarterback. Manziel may be the sexy pick, but conventional wisdom has them selecting Florida native Blake Bortles. It’s the safer pick, and Bortles played his ball in Florida, so there is a connection with the home base there and should be able to attract people to Jacksonville.

Steal of the first round: WR Mike Evans to Pittsburgh

            Big Ben has really missed having a big physical wide receiver in Pittsburgh since the departure of Mike Wallace, and if Mike Evans falls to Steeler Nation at 15, that would be an absolute steal. Evans has all of the physical traits and great hands that make him an ideal game changer that Pittsburgh has not had in a very long time.

2^nd Round

Pick	Team	Player	College	Position
1	Houston	Carlos Hyde	Ohio State	RB
2	Washington	DeVante Adams	Fresno State	WR
3	Jacksonville	Ka’Deem Carey	Arizona	RB
4	Cleveland	Tre Mason	Auburn	RB
5	Oakland	Jordan Mathews	Vanderbilt	WR
6	Atlanta	Louis Nix	Notre Dame	DT
7	Tampa Bay	Jason Verrett	TCU	CB
8	Minnesota	Allen Robinson	Penn State	WR
9	Buffalo	CJ Mosley	Alabama	LB
10	Detroit	Terrance Brooks	Florida State	FS
11	Tennessee	Tom Savage	Pittsburgh	QB
12	New York G	Chris Borland	Wisconsin	ILB
13	St. Louis	Jimmy Garoppolo	Eastern Illinois	QB
14	Chicago	Kony Ealy	Missouri	DE
15	Pittsburgh	Kyle Fuller	Virginia Tech	CB
16	Dallas	Carl Bradford	Arizona State	OLB
17	Baltimore	Lache Seastrunk	Baylor	RB
18	New York J	Calvin Pryor	Louisville	FS
19	Miami	C.J. Fiedorowicz	Iowa	TE
20	Arizona	Zach Mettenberger	LSU	QB
21	Green Bay	Marcus Robinson	Florida	CB
22	Philadelphia	Timmy Jernigan	Florida State	DT
23	Cincinnati	Christian Jones	Florida State	ILB
24	Kansas City	Donte Moncrief	Ole Miss	WR
25	San Diego	Antonio Richardson	Tenneessee	OT
26	Indianapolis	Jeremiah Attaochu	Georgia Tech	LB
27	New Orleans	Dominique Easly	Florida	DT
28	Carolina	Bishop Sankey	Washington	RB
29	New England	AJ McCarron	Alabama	QB
30	San Francisco	Craig Lotson	LSU	SS
31	Denver	Cyril Richardson	Baylor	OG
32	Seattle	Charles Sams	West Virginia	RB

Story of the second round: 2^nd Tier QBs off the board in Round 2

            After four quarterbacks (Bortles, Carr, Manziel, Bridgewater) are off the board in round 1, teams will not hesitate to select a quarterback in the second round. Another four quarterbacks will be selected in the 2^nd round as well (Savage to Tennessee, Garoppolo to St. Louis, Mettenberger to Kansas City, McCarron to New England). Tom Savage has emerged in private workouts for teams in the past few weeks. His size and arm strength may be the best in the draft, and Tennessee may not be sold on Jake Locker who has proven to be inconsistent more than anything else. Garoppolo could also make a run at the starting job in St. Louis, where coach Jeff Fisher is trying to give incumbent starter Sam Bradford as many weapons as possible (signed Kenny Britt to go along with Tavon Austin), but if Bradford cannot stay healthy or emerge as the 1^st round talent as the Rams had hoped, he will be on the way out in St. Louis. Mettenberger and McCarron, two of the more polished quarterbacks in the draft will be selected as possible successors to veteran quarterbacks Alex Smith and Tom Brady.

The steal of the second round: LB CJ Mosley to Buffalo

            There is not much of a need for a middle linebacker in this year’s NFL draft but there is little denying the talent, leadership and production of CJ Mosley. The Bills had one of the steals of the draft a year ago when they selected Kiko Alonso in the 2^nd round, who ended up leading the team in tackles but the Bills envision Alonso being more of an outside linebacker. Mosley fits the mold of the ideal middle linebacker and if he fell to Buffalo, the lowly Bills would sport the best front seven in the AFC East.