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About the NFL Mock Draft Simulator

An independent NFL Draft research project: consensus prospect boards, complete draft results, team-by-team analysis, and a simulation engine that models how front offices actually behave.

What this site is

NFL Mock Draft Simulator is an independent site built and maintained by Cameron Peterson. It began with a single question. Why are mock draft simulators so bad at predicting drafts? The answer grew into a full research project with three parts: a prospect database, a results archive, and a simulation engine built on top of both.

The site is not affiliated with the National Football League, any NFL club, the NCAA, or any media outlet. It is funded by advertising, which is why there are ads on the reference and analysis pages. There are none inside the simulator itself.

What we publish

We cover 2 draft classes: 2027 (upcoming), 2026. For each one:

• Complete 2026 draft results: all 257 picks with position, school, consensus board rank and trade provenance for every selection.
• Consensus big boards: an aggregate ranking of each class built from the major public boards, shown against where players actually went. 2027 · 2026
• Position rankings: every major position group ranked, with an evergreen explainer of how the draft market prices it.
• All 32 franchises: current front office and needs for each team, plus every draft class it has produced.
• 2026 analysis: research pieces computed from our own data rather than aggregated from elsewhere.
• The simulator: a free mock draft tool covering all seven rounds, with a working trade market, for any class we carry.

How we work

Every ranking, results table and analysis piece on this site is compiled or written in-house. Statistics quoted in our analysis are computed directly from the underlying pick data rather than repeated from other outlets, which means they can be checked against the results tables published here.

Where we draw on outside reporting, say a beat writer's statement about a team's interest in a prospect, it is attributed to the author and outlet who reported it. Where we aggregate public rankings into a consensus board, the outlets folded into that aggregate are named on the board page itself.

The simulator's methodology is published in full, including its weights and its known weaknesses, on how the simulator works. We think a model nobody can inspect is a model nobody should trust, including ours.

What we say when we don't know

A draft class that has not happened yet is mostly unknown, and the honest thing is to say so rather than fill the gap. Before a season ends, the draft order is a projection from records, not a settled order. Compensatory picks do not exist until the March league meetings. Team needs are assessed from current rosters and change in free agency. Scouting profiles follow the combine.

So pages for an upcoming class carry less than pages for a completed one, and they say which of those inputs are provisional. We would rather publish a smaller page that is true than a fuller one that is not.

Corrections

Draft data is unusually error-prone: picks get traded mid-round, compensatory selections move, and player names get logged inconsistently during a live event. If you find an error anywhere on this site, we want to know. Write to contact@nfldraftmock.com and we will correct it and note the change.

Contact

General enquiries, corrections, data questions and advertising: contact@nfldraftmock.com. More detail on the contact page.