More often than not, mock drafts are wrong.

In 2017, Joe Marino of NDT Scouting had the most accurate mock draft of the year, according to Huddle Report, and he earned that title with a grand total of nine correct predictions of player-team pairings. Nine.

Mock drafting is essentially a game of darts played blindfolded. However, surveying a sampling of them, we can usually throw enough darts at the board that a few more hit the bullseye. Last year, our sampling of 104 mock drafts had just two picks not affected by trades — Evan Engram to the New York Giants and Ryan Ramczyk to the New Orleans Saints — that weren’t predicted in any mock drafts.

Here we’ll be tracking the direction experts are predicting each team will go with their first-round selections in the 2018 NFL Draft.

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