I've finally finished my basic evaluations of about 45 or so players, so I thought it'd be a good time to do my first serious mock draft. A couple notes:
Most importantly, this is a lottery simulation.
There are two players not currently in the database that I for sure would have drafted in the first round, Jaylen Wells of Washington State, and Hansen Yang of the Qingdao Eagles.
Yeah, I know. Rob Dillingham fell super far. I understand that that's unlikely to happen, I just wasn't feeling him as I went through each pick one by one. I'm sure in a future mock, with a different lottery outcome, and just a different mindset from me, he'll rightfully be picked in the lottery. I just wasn't feeling him in this one.
I'm very, very high on Kel'el Ware. That's probably the weirdest pick of the whole thing.
If you're curious about who I have just barely outside my first round rankings, the next guys would be some combination of: Kevin McCullars, DaRon Holmes II, Jaylon Tyson, and Jamir Watkins.
But yeah, thanks for reading. I'll probably do another serious one in a week or two or three, as my evaluations of the prospects (and the teams!) grow and evolve.