NFL Draft Predictions: Who is the most accurate mock draft predictor?

Another college football year is behind us. Top qualified talents for the sport enter the professional level and prepare to enter the 2023 NFL Draft.

Thoughts on which draft experts are knowledgeable and which are full of them abound on discussion forums.

There are two different kinds of draft evaluations and candidate ratings, which should be considered while assessing draft analysts' work. The majority of draft analysts evaluate players.

This strategy seeks to forecast a player's performance in the NFL. Experts who evaluate players typically rely on film analysis, quantifiable production metrics, and analytics to come up with their objective evaluation of a player's likely potential for success in the NFL.

In their candidate ratings, other experts take projections into account. Here, the goal might be to predict where the player will go in the draft rather than how they will perform in the NFL. Their draft projections frequently feature assessments of views from NFL team recruiters and personnel executives in addition to evaluations of college performance.

Mel Kiper consistently outperforms the competition at forecasting draft results. The most amazing thing is that when it comes to picking the top draft picks, Kiper is on par with many NFL front offices.

Mel Kiper Jr., among the most esteemed draft gurus in the world, has been an NFL draft expert for almost 40 years. His mock drafts in the weeks before the NFL Draft each year are among the things he is most well-known for. He has created an appetite for others to try to do the same thing by trying to properly forecast every selection in every draft. Many other NFL experts have done the same.

Although forecasting the results of the NFL Draft is exceedingly tough, Kiper has aced it.

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Mel Kiper's Top 10 2023 NFL Draft mock

1. Houston Texans (via mock trade with Chicago Bears) – Bryce Young, QB, Alabama

2. Indianapolis Colts (via mock trade) – C.J. Stroud, QB, Ohio State

3. Arizona Cardinals – Will Anderson Jr., OLB, Alabama

4. Chicago Bears (via mock trade with Indianapolis Colts) – Jalen Carter, DT, Georgia

5. Carolina Panthers (via mock trade with Seattle Seahawks/Denver Broncos) – Will Levis, QB, Kentucky

6. Detroit Lions (via Las Vegas Raider) – Christian Gonzalez, CB, Oregon

7. Las Vegas Raiders – Devon Witherspoon, CB, Illinois

8. Atlanta Falcons – Will McDonald IV, DE, Iowa State

9. Seattle Seahawks (via mock trade with CAR) – Anthony Richardson, QB, Florida

10. Philadelphia Eagles (via NO) – Peter Skoronski, OT, Northwestern