0 of 32

Jared Wickerham/Getty Images

NFL draft-mania is in full force this week as the 2015 class prepares to enter the league. Instead of looking forward, it’s time to jump back to 2012 and redo what happened three years ago. What could or should have been done differently?

Now that we’ve seen this class for three entire seasons, it’s easier to see which players have achieved status in the NFL and which are working their way there. We shouldn’t completely write off players who haven’t yet found success, but some guys would certainly drop if this class could be re-drafted.

In this slideshow, we'll re-examine the 2012 draft. Knowing what we know in 2015, some teams would certainly change their selections. Others would likely stick with what worked the first go-around.

Before we dig in, let’s establish a couple of rules.

First, we are only tackling the first round. Secondly, we're using the original draft order—before any "day of" trades.

So Washington still has the second pick, but all the teams that made a trade on the first day of the draft are back in their original spots. We will not be replicating or making up our own trades at all.

What happened in subsequent draft classes won’t be considered, as these franchise-altering moves could have changed those picks.