We’re about one month out from the 2024 NFL Draft. Here’s my full three-round 2024 NFL Mock Draft of how the puzzle pieces are currently falling. In terms of pick volume, this is a step back from my previous version that went six rounds deep, but I make up for that with some written insights behind each first-round pick and select picks in rounds two and three.
Below we dive into a few notable rookies selected in my latest 2024 NFL Mock Draft.
2024 NFL Mock Draft
2. Washington Commanders: Drake Maye (QB – UNC)
I have no idea which QB the Commanders are taking with this pick — nor does anybody outside of the front office. I do buy that it could be Drake Maye, Jayden Daniels or J.J. McCarthy. I still lean toward Maye at this juncture. Beyond personally ranking him as the top option of these three (though it’s close and I’m not overwhelmed by any of them), I have a sense there’s some smoke surrounding Daniels’ draft stock and that Washington might chicken out at the thought of putting McCarthy under center right away. (Marcus Mariota cannot start in 2024.)
5. Minnesota Vikings: J.J. McCarthy (QB – Michigan) *TRADE ALERT*
- Chargers Trade: 2024 Round 1 Pick (5th Overall)
- Vikings Trade: 2024 Round 1 Picks (11th and 23rd Overall), 2025 Round 3 Pick
The most obvious trade in NFL mock draft history goes down and the Vikings take the QB prospect everyone expects them to take.
9. Chicago Bears: Brian Thomas Jr. (WR – LSU)
Increasingly of the view that #Bears just sit at Pick 9 and gladly take the WR4. Talk themselves into the OL being good enough and D being good enough post-Montez Sweat trade. More than that, Darnell Wright was not the consensus OT2 last year, they didn’t care, turned out well.
— PJ Moran (@PJonDraft) March 26, 2024
23. Los Angeles Chargers: Ladd McConkey (WR – Georgia) *TRADE ALERT*
- Vikings Trade: 2024 Round 1 Picks (11th and 23rd Overall), 2025 Round 3 Pick
- Chargers Trade: 2024 Round 1 Pick (5th Overall)
Believe the Ladd McConkey hype. He deserves it. McConkey only gets open on tape and his athletic testing was marvelous; this is a round one wideout. He reminds me a bit of Zay Flowers, who new Chargers GM Joe Hortiz had a role in drafting for the Ravens last year.
2024 NFL Mock Drafts
Here are a few early predictions for the 2024 NFL Draft. We’ll continue to add our 2024 NFL Mock Drafts leading up to the start of Round 1.
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft: Thor Nystrom (1.0 | 2.0)
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft: Matthew Jones (1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0)
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft: Andrew Erickson (1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0)
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft: Kent Weyrauch (1.0 | 2.0)
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft: Derek Brown (1.0)
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft: Russell Brown (1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0)
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft: PJ Moran (1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0)
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft With Trades: Mike Fanelli (1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0)
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft With Trades: Marco Enriquez (1.0 | 2.0)
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft With Trades: Dennis Sosic
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft: Two-Round Writer Collaborative
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft: First Round Picks & Predictions
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft: Top 20 Picks & Predictions
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft: Top 10 Picks & Predictions
- 2024 NFL Mock Draft: Early Picks & Predictions
- Early 2024 NFL Mock Draft with Trades: Picks & Predictions
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