NFL draft: Quarterbacks tough to project in 2016 Mock Draft 1.0 (Shutdown Corner)

A quarter of the NFL season has flown past us, and we’re starting to get an idea of which teams still legitimately have a shot of making a playoff run and which ones are starting to think about next season. This is our first attempt to diagnose and project the 2016 NFL draft picture, and it’s admittedly a serious reach. There are hundreds of factors that will change over the next six months before the draft descends in Chicago next spring. [ Play Yahoo Daily Fantasy and get a 100% deposit bonus with your first deposit ] But the picture slowly is revealing itself, and after a handful of conversations with league sources and talent evaluators, we have a bit better idea of how the talent pool in college football is starting to shape up. With that in mind, enjoy our first mock draft of the season — but first, some notes:  • We used the inverse of Shutdown Corner’s Week 5 power rankings to determine the order. It’s far from a perfect system (we have, for instance, no AFC South or NFC East team picking below the 20th spot, which won’t happen; at least one from each division will make the postseason and, thus, pick somewhere between 21 and 31, with the New England Patriots losing a first-round pick this season because of Roger Goodell saying so). • We intentionally excluded a few underclassmen of note, including: Penn State QB Christian Hackenburg , LSU CB Tre’Davious White , Clemson WR Mike Williams , Virginia Tech CB Kendall Fuller , Auburn DE Carl Lawson and West Virginia S Karl Joseph . Various reasons — injury, poor play, a possible desire to return to school next year — had us skipping over these talented players who, if they declare, could firmly find themselves in the first-round picture. • Have some fun with this! We understand that undertaking a mock in early October is a serious stretch. But we’re going off the information we have now, making some projections and — yes — things most certainly will change from now until April. But there’s no reason to get angry over a mock draft. What did it ever do to you? Without further ado …

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