Joey P’s 2020 First-Round NFL Mock Draft

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As I do every year at this time, here’s my one (and only) NFL mock draft.


Trades and other surprises will no doubt shake up this order, but it’s my best possible projection–and last years wasn’t far off. Like it? Hate it? Fire away!

1. Cincinnati Bengals – QB Joe Burrow, Louisiana State
2. Washington Redskins – DE Chase Young, Ohio State
3. Detroit Lions – CB Jeff Okudah, Ohio State
4. New York Giants – LB Isaiah Simmons, Clemson
5. Miami Dolphins – QB Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama

6. Los Angeles Chargers – QB Justin Herbert, Oregon
7. Carolina Panthers – DT Derrick Brown, Auburn
8. Arizona Cardinals – T Andrew Thomas, Georgia
9. Jacksonville Jaguars – T Jedrick Willis, Jr., Alabama
10. Cleveland Browns, — T Tristan Wirfs, Alabama

11. New York Jets—WR Jerry Jeudy, Alabama
12. Las Vegas Raiders – WR CeeDee Lamb, Oklahoma
13. San Francisco 49ers (from Indianapolis) — WR Henry Ruggs III, Alabama
14. Tampa Bay Buccaneers – T Josh Jones, Houston
15. Denver Broncos – DT Javon Kinlaw, South Carolina

16. Atlanta Falcons – CB CJ Henderson, Florida
17. Dallas Cowboys – OLB K’Lavon Chaisson, Louisiana State
18. Miami Dolphins (from P9ttsburgh) – T Austin Jackson, Southern California
19. Las Vegas Raiders (from Chicago) – CB AJ Terrell, Clemson
20. Jacksonville Jaguars (from Los Angeles Rams) – CBTrevon Diggs, Alabama

21. Philadelphia Eagles – WR Justin Jefferson, Louisiana State
22. Minnesota Vikings (from Buffalo) — CB Jaylon Johnson, Utah
23. New England Patriots – QB Jordan Love, Utah State
24. New Orleans Saints – ILB Patrick Queen, Louisiana State
25 Minnesota Vikings – WR Tee Higgins, Clemson

26. Miami Dolphins (from Houston) – RB D’Andre Swift, Georgia
27. Seattle Seahawks – OLB Yetur Gross-Matos, Penn State
28. Baltimore Ravens – ILB Kenneth Murray, Oklahoma
29.Tennessee Titans – WR Brandon Aiyuk, Arizona State
30.Green Bay Packers – WR Laviska Shenaud, Colorado

31.San Francisco 49ers –DT Ross Blacklock, Texas Christian
32. Kansas City Chiefs – C Cesar Ruiz, Michigan

About Joe Platania

Veteran Ravens correspondent Joe Platania is in his 45th year in sports media (including two CFL seasons when Batlimore had a CFL team) in a career that extends across parts of six decades. Platania covers sports with insight, humor, and a highly prescient eye, and that is why he has made his mark on television, radio, print, online, and in the podcast world. He can be heard frequently on WJZ-FM’s “Vinny And Haynie” show, alongside ex-Washington general manager Vinny Cerrato and Bob Haynie. A former longtime member in good standing of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and the Pro Football Writers of America, Platania manned the CFL Stallions beat for The Avenue Newspaper Group of Essex (1994 and ’95) and the Ravens beat since the team’s inception — one of only three local writers to do so — for PressBox, The Avenue, and other local publications and radio stations. A sought-after contributor and host on talk radio and TV, he made numerous appearances on “Inside PressBox” (10:30 a.m. Sundays), and he was heard weekly for eight seasons on the “Purple Pride Report,” WQLL-AM (1370). He has also appeared on WMAR-TV’s “Good Morning Maryland” (2009), Comcast SportsNet’s “Washington Post Live” (2004-06), and WJZ-TV’s “Football Talk” postgame show — with legend Marty Bass (2002-04). Platania is the only sports journalist in Maryland history to have been a finalist for both the annual Sportscaster of the Year award (1998, which he won) and Sportswriter of the Year (2010). He is also a four-time Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association award winner. Platania is a graduate of St. Joseph’s (Cockeysville), Calvert Hall College High School, and Towson University, where he earned a degree in Mass Communications. He lives in Cockeysville, MD.



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