With the Senior Bowl now over, many draft experts are shuffling their mock drafts and draft rankings. The truth is that all-star games are just a very small piece of a process that is mostly dependent upon game tape. The amount of shifting players make on an actual team's draft board is not nearly as much the amount of shifting on media and draftnik boards.
That said, many in the media get the chance to use the all-star games such as the Senior Bowl to shape their opinions after talking with other talent evaluators and sometimes even NFL scouts and personnel. Click beyond the jump to see my first mock draft of the offseason as of the conclusion of Senior Bowl week.
2012 NFL Mock Draft (1-28-12) |
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Pick |
Team |
Player |
Pos. |
School |
|
1 |
 |
Indianapolis Colts
|
Andrew Luck
|
QB |
Stanford |
2 |
 |
St. Louis Rams
|
Matt Kalil
|
OT |
USC |
3 |
 |
Minnesota Vikings |
Morris Claiborne |
CB |
LSU |
4 |
 |
Cleveland Browns |
Robert Griffin III |
QB |
Baylor |
5 |
 |
Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
Trent Richardson |
RB |
Alabama |
6 |
 |
Washington Redskins |
Kendall Wright |
WR |
Baylor |
7 |
 |
Jacksonville Jaguars |
Quinton Coples |
DE |
North Carolina |
8 |
 |
Carolina Panthers |
Devon Still |
DT |
Penn State |
9 |
 |
Miami Dolphins |
Riley Reiff |
OT |
Iowa |
10 |
 |
Buffalo Bills |
Justin Blackmon |
WR |
Oklahoma State |
11 |
 |
Kansas City Chiefs |
Jonathan Martin |
OT |
Stanford |
12 |
 |
Seattle Seahawks |
Courtney Upshaw |
DE |
Alabama |
13 |
 |
Arizona Cardinals |
Dre Kirkpatrick |
CB |
Alabama |
14 |
 |
Dallas Cowboys |
David DeCastro |
G |
Stanford |
15 |
 |
Philadelphia Eagles |
Luke Kuechly |
LB |
Boston College |
16 |
 |
New York Jets |
Nick Perry |
OLB |
USC |
17 |
 |
Cincinnati Bengals |
Janoris Jenkins |
CB |
North Alabama |
18 |
 |
San Diego Chargers |
Michael Brockers |
DE |
LSU |
19 |
 |
Chicago Bears |
Whitney Mercilus |
DE |
Illinois |
20 |
 |
Tennessee Titans |
Peter Konz |
C |
Wisconsin |
21 |
|
Cincinnati Bengals |
Michael Floyd |
WR |
Notre Dame |
22 |
|
Cleveland Browns |
Mark Barron |
S |
Alabama |
23 |
 |
Detroit Lions |
Cordy Glenn |
G |
Georgia |
24 |
 |
Pittsburgh Steelers |
Melvin Ingram |
OLB |
South Carolina |
25 |
 |
Denver Broncos |
Chris Polk |
RB |
Washington |
26 |
 |
Houston Texans |
Dontari Poe |
DT |
Memphis |
27 |
 |
New England Patriots |
Zach Brown |
OLB |
North Carolina |
28 |
 |
Green Bay Packers |
Fletcher Cox |
DE |
Mississippi State |
29 |
 |
Baltimore Ravens |
Dont'a Hightower |
LB |
Alabama |
30 |
 |
San Francisco 49ers |
Alshon Jeffery |
WR |
South Carolina |
31 |
 |
New York Giants |
Mike Adams |
OT |
Ohio State |
32 |
|
New England Patriots |
Alfonzo Dennard |
CB |
Nebraska |