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When New York Giants general manager Jerry Reese said to expect the unexpected in the draft, he sure wasn’t kidding.

After several attempts at creating mock draft scenarios for the New York Giants last week, the 32 B/R NFL draft correspondents engaged in a community mock draft exercise in which we selected the first three picks for our respective teams.

In watching the draft unfold—there were no trades allowed in this mock draft—there were surprises.

Lots of surprises.

In approaching the picks, I tried to marry best available player with a position of need in the first three rounds. Then, in Rounds 4-7, the draft correspondents and I simply picked players who hadn’t been selected in the top 100 to fill out the rest of the mock draft.

Did the dominoes fall the way I hoped?

Not at all.

Do I have a better appreciation for what NFL general managers go through on draft weekend?

You better believe it.

So without any further delay, here is a look at how the first three rounds went and the impact they had on the remaining four rounds.