May 1, 2018
With the 2018 NFL Draft behind us, we can check the results of how the prominent mock drafts fared.
I was happy with the results of my 2018 NFL Mock Draft. Thanks to the outstanding reporting Charlie Campbell provides, as well as other extremely helpful sources of information, I was able to get 10 picks correct.
As you can see below, the NFL Draft is very difficult to predict, as evidenced by some of the low scores. Some of the people on this list know the prospects extremely well, yet didn’t get many selections correct. Thanks to trades, or bad teams reaching on players, the draft can completely get out of whack, causing a mock draft to implode.
Here is how all of the prominent 2018 NFL Mock Drafts scored (if I’m missing someone’s mock, please e-mail me.) Keep in mind that we are scoring prospects to correct teams:
Walter Cherepinsky – 10
Evan Silva – 10
Daniel Jeremiah – 8
Rob Rang – 8
Mike Mayock – 7
Todd McShay – 6
Tony Pauline – 6
Bob McGinn – 5
Josh Norris – 5
Pete Prisco – 5
Pete Schraeger – 5
Lance Zierlein – 5
Charlie Campbell – 4
Mel Kiper – 4
Will Brinson – 3
Jacob Camenker – 3
Charley Casserly – 3
Scott Wright – 3
Bucky Brooks – 2
Dane Brugler – 2
Peter King – 2
Matt Miller – 2
Thor Nystrom – 2
Chris Trapasso – 2
R.J. White – 2
Chad Reuter – 1
Here’s how the mock drafters fared in 2017:
Charlie Campbell – 9
Daniel Jeremiah – 8
Peter King – 7
Lance Zierlein – 6
[Name redacted for multiple journalism ethics violations] – 6
Walter Cherepinsky – 5
Mike Mayock – 5
Evan Silva – 5
Scott Wright – 5
Bucky Brooks – 4
Todd McShay – 4
Josh Norris – 4
Tony Pauline – 4
Pete Prisco – 4
Rob Rang – 4
Pete Schraeger – 4
Dane Brugler – 3
Chad Reuter – 3
Charley Casserly – 2
Mel Kiper – 2
Bob McGinn – 2
Let’s combine the past two years and see who has the most correct over that span (only those with documented mocks in both 2017 and 2018):
Daniel Jeremiah – 16
Walter Cherepinsky – 15
Evan Silva – 15
Charlie Campbell – 13
Mike Mayock – 12
Rob Rang – 12
Lance Zierlein – 11
Todd McShay – 10
Tony Pauline – 10
Peter King – 9
Josh Norris – 9
Pete Prisco – 9
Pete Schraeger – 9
Scott Wright – 8
Bob McGinn – 7
Bucky Brooks – 6
Mel Kiper – 6
Dane Brugler – 5
Charley Casserly – 5
Chad Reuter – 4
We’ll have the reporting results posted later this week, as we do each year after the draft is finished.
For a full list of mocks, check out our 2019 NFL Mock Draft Database.
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