MORSE: 2023 1st Round NFL Draft Projection

2023 NFL Draft, it’s a crapshoot and a guess. If I get 7 correct it’s considered a win.

The draft starts tonight at 8:00 and is broadcast live on ESPN and the NFL Network. Locally NBC Sports Boston will break in around 9:00 as it is getting close to the Patriots’ 14^th selection at around 9:45. WEEI and Sports Hub 98.5 will be broadcasting draft coverage all night.

The 2023 Draft is being held in downtown Kansas City. The draft starts April 27 with Round 1, continues that Friday with Rounds 2 and 3 and finishes the following day with Rounds 4-7. Here are the times and where to watch:

Round 1: Thursday, April 27, at 8 p.m. ET (ESPN, ABC, ESPN App, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, NFL Network)
Rounds 2-3: Friday, April 28, at 7 p.m. ET (ESPN, ABC, ESPN App, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, NFL Network)
Rounds 4-7: Saturday, April 29, at noon ET (ESPN with ABC simulcast, ESPN App, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, NFL Network)

CJ Stroud Horrible Test Score

It came out this week that Ohio St QB CJ Stroud scored 18 of 99 in the S2 Cognitive Test. This test metric is highly used across the league as a measurement of how the QB processes info. Alabama QB Bryce Young scored 98 out of 99 and Kentucky QB Will Levis scored 93 of 99. Stroud is rumored to be dropping on draft boards across the league. That is one of the reasons I have HOU taking Will Anderson with the second pick and HOU waiting to take a QB at pick #12.

Bijan Robinson RB Texas, could go anywhere from pick #8 ATL to late in Round 1. I saw a Mock Draft today that had Jahmyr Gibbs RB Alabama, going in the 1^st round ahead of Bijan Robinson, who doesn’t get taken until the 2^nd round.

Here is my stab at the first round:

1	CAR	Bryce Young	QB	Alabama
2	HOU	Wil Anderson	EDGE	Alabama
3	ARI	Tyree Wilson	EDGE	Texas Tech
4	IND	CJ Stroud	QB	Ohio State
5	SEA	Nolan Smith	EDGE	Georgia
6	DET	Devin Witherspoon	CB	Illinois
7	LV	Christian Gonzalez	CB	Oregon
8	ATL	Jalen Carter	EDGE	Georgia
9	CHI	Lukas Van Ness	EDGE	Iowa
10	PHI	Peter Skoronski	OT	Northwestern
11	TEN	Anthony Richardson	QB	Florida
12	HOU	Will Levis	QB	Kentucky
13	GB	Myles Murphy	EDGE	Clemson
14	NE	Broderick Jones	OT	Georgia
15	NYJ	Paris Johnson	OT	Ohio State
16	WAS	Bijan Robinson	RB	Texas
17	PIT	Joey Porter	CB	Penn State
18	DET	Calijah Clancy	DT	Pittsburgh
19	TB	Darnell Wright	OT	Tennessee
20	SEA	Jaxon Smith – Njigba	WR	Ohio State
21	LAC	Dalton Kincaid	TE	Utah
22	BAL	Zay Flowers	WR	Boston College
23	MIN	Deonte Banks	CB	Maryland
24	JAX	Bryan Breese	DT	Clemson
25	NYG	Jordan Addison	WR	USC
26	DAL	Michael Mayer	TE	Notre Dame
27	BUF	Josh Downs	WR	North Carolina
28	CIN	Emmanuel Forbes	CB	Mississippi St
29	NO	Adetomiwa Adebawore	DT	Northwestern
30	PHI	Brian Branch	S	Alabama
31	KC	Jahmyr Gibbs	RB	Alabama

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About Mark Morse

Merrimack Valley native and lifelong fan of the New England Patriots. My earliest memories of the Patriots were attending as a child with my dad, the off-season practice at Phillips Academy. I was at the Patriots game at Harvard Stadium in 1970 where Bob “Harpo” Gladieux was called out of the stands by the stadium announcer over the PA to play in the game. Analyzing the draft since ESPN first started to televise it in 1980 and former writer for the Lowell Sun Newspaper.

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