2016 NFL Mock Draft: Order of Selections and Final 1st-Round Team Predictions

Hours separate the football world from the 2016 NFL draft, which will alter the league’s landscape more dramatically than, say, Peyton Manning’s departure.

With Manning and last year in the rearview, the future will step into focus in emphatic fashion. The top two picks in the order will be the result of trades as teams scramble to pick from the top of a weak quarterback class.

This class belongs to the defenders, and any mock draft will follow that narrative. Below, let’s take one final look at mock projections based on team need and prospect value.

2016 NFL Mock Draft

1. Los Angeles Rams: Jared Goff, QB, California

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The world wants to believe the Los Angeles Rams haven’t made up their mind about the draft’s top pick just as badly as the NFL wants to sell such a silly idea.

It’s silly because a team isn’t going to sell the farm to get to No. 1 and not know what to do once it’s there. Folks may go on vacations like that and be fine, but competing in a billion-dollar industry is a different animal.

Even the player will find himself gnawing at his nails until the Rams walk to the podium, according to NFL Network’s Andrew Siciliano:

Jeff Fisher says #1 pick won’t know until @RamsNFL are on the clock:”We’ll get in touch with the player just prior to putting the card in.”

— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) April 26, 2016

No, the Rams know who they’re picking, and it’s California’s Jared Goff.

Goff is the best quarterback in the class. He doesn’t have some of the level-of-competition questions facing Carson Wentz and is not anything close to a project, like Paxton Lynch.

There’s nothing wrong with either of those factors floating around the other top names, but this is Los Angeles—a team in a new locale that is looking to win over fans in a …

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