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NFL mock draft live: Team reporters make their 2022 first-round picks
Step apart nationwide NFL prognosticators.
This mock draft is locals solely.
As has been custom for almost 20 years, the Los Angeles Occasions turned to beat writers, the individuals who cowl these groups every day, to make the first-round picks in an imaginary draft. They know the tendencies and desires of their respective groups, and have been writing about them for months.
Beneath, the reporters choose and provides a rationale for it.
A yr after quarterbacks went 1-2-3, this mock tasks solely two chosen within the opening spherical, with the primary going to New Orleans at No. 19.
This tasks an in-the-trenches draft, with the primary six choices being defensive or offensive linemen. The situation additionally has a USC receiver going within the high 10 for the primary time since Mike Williams was taken tenth in 2005.