2015 NFL Writers' Mock Draft

Nick Mandarano

This year for the NFL Draft, I had the idea of a Writer’s Mock Draft. Essentially, this mock draft entails beat writers from around the league selecting players for their respective team when it comes to be their pick. Here are the results:

Pick	Team	Player	Position	College	Writer
1	Tampa Bay	Jameis Winston	QB	Florida State	Greg Auman
2	Tennessee	Marcus Mariota	QB	Oregon	Jim Wyatt
3	Jacksonville	Leonard Williams	DE	USC	Hays Carlyon
4	Oakland	Amari Cooper	WR	Alabama	Jerry McDonald
5	Washington	Dante Fowler, Jr.	OLB	Florida	Zac Boyer
6	NY Jets	Kevin White	WR	West Virginia	Darryl Slater
7	Chicago	Danny Shelton	NT	Washington	Adam Jahns
8	Atlanta	Vic Beasley	OLB	Clemson	D. Orlando Ledbetter
9	New York	Brandon Scherff	OL	Iowa	Ken Palmer
10	St. Louis	Andrus Peat	OL	Stanford	Howard Balzer
11	Minnesota	Trae Waynes	CB	Michigan St.	Chris Tomasson
12	Cleveland	Bud Dupree	OLB	Kentucky	Kevin Jones
13	New Orleans	Devante Parker	WR	Lousiville	Nick Underhill
14	Miami	Todd Gurley	RB	Georgia	Omar Kelly
15	San Francisco	Arik Armstead	DL	Oregon	Matt Barrows
16	Houston	Cameron Erving	C	Florida State	John McClain
17	San Diego	Melvin Gordon	RB	Wisconsin	Michael Gehlken
18	Kansas City	Eric Kendricks	ILB	UCLA	Terez Paylor
19	Cleveland	Nelson Agholor	WR	USC	Kevin Jones
20	Philadelphia	Byron Jones	CB	Connecticut	Dave Spadaro
21	Cincinnati	Ereck Flowers	OL	Miami	Paul Dehner Jr.
22	Pittsburgh	Kevin Johnson	CB	Wake Forest	Ed Bouchhette
23	Detroit	Malcom Brown	DT	Texas	David Birkett
24	Arizona	Shane Ray	DE	Missouri	Darren Urban
25	Carolina	DJ Humphries	OL	Florida	Joe Person
26	Baltimore	Breshad Perriman	WR	UCF	Jeff Zrebiec
27	Dallas	Randy Gregory	OLB	Nebraska	David Helman
28	Denver	Jake Fisher	OL	Oregon	Mike Klis
29	Indianapolis	Eddie Goldman	DT	Florida State	Stephen Holder
30	Green Bay	Marcus Peters	CB	Washington	Bill Huber
31	New Orleans	Phillip Dorsett	WR	Miami	Nick Underhill
32	New England	Eli Harold	OLB	Virginia	Thomas Curran

I’d like to thank all of the writer’s that participated in this project, including the ones not listed above. I reached out to a couple different writers per team, so if multiple writers responded, the first was the official pick.

Interesting Note:

• Chargers beat writer Bernie Wilson attempted to trade Phillip Rivers and Pick No. 17 to Tennessee for Pick No. 2. When informed that trades were not permitted in this mock draft, he responded, “To be brutally honest, it’s baseball season. I hate the draft.”