The Athletic Football Show's 2023 top-10 mock draft
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🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
It's time to put a bow on The Athletic Football Show's predraft coverage in 2023. What better way to do so than with a mock draft? The Athletic's team of beat writers, as well as a couple of TAFS mainstays, join Robert Mays to mock their way through the top 10 of the 2023 NFL Draft on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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2:09 Pick 1. Carolina Panthers
10:18 Pick 2. Houston Texans
21:58 Pick 3. Indianapolis Colts (oooh, a trade)
34:05 Pick 4. Arizona Cardinals
41:05 Pick 5. Seattle Seahawks
51:16 Pick 6. Detroit Lions
60:09 Pick 7. Las Vegas Raiders
72:44 Pick 8. Atlanta Falcons
81:36 Pick 9. Chicago Bears
91:17 Pick 10. Philadelphia Eagles
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:51.4 | We got a big one for you today. |
| 0:52.7 | It is the 2023 Athletic Beat Writer Mays. We got a big one for you today. It is the 2023 athletic beat writer mock draft. We have, I think, eight of our team writers picking for their respective teams in the mock. We don't have Texans or Cardinals writers. So our good friends, Dan Bruegler and Nate Tice are going to stand in and help us out there. I love doing this. |
| 1:12.7 | It's just a great way to get a sense of what these teams need, what their mindset is going |
| 1:18.1 | into the draft. Our writers know these teams better than anybody else. And just understanding what |
| 1:23.5 | their priorities are, what their thought process is going to be as these picks comes up. |
| 1:28.0 | I think it's a really fantastic level of insight on the eve of the draft, |
| 1:32.1 | and it's become one of our traditions here on the athletic football show. |
| 1:35.7 | So without further ado, let's get to it with the Carolina Panthers on the clock with the number one pick. |
| 1:41.5 | All right. |
| 1:42.8 | Now on the clock, it is the Carolina Panthers with the number one pick. All right. Now on the clock, it is the Carolina Panthers with the number one |
| 1:48.4 | overall pick. And here to talk through what the Panthers are going to do at number one, |
| 1:53.8 | it is our Carolina Panthers writer at the athletic Joe person. Joe, thanks very much for doing |
| 1:57.4 | this. Yeah, thanks. So the Panthers have been on the clock since about 5 o'clock Eastern time, March 10th. |
| 2:05.6 | So they've had some time to think about this. |
| 2:08.0 | I remember it vividly. |
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