2013 NFL Mock Draft: BTSC Community Mock Recap and Analysis

First off - big, big thanks go out to everyone that participated. Honestly, it was about as painless as this community mock draft has ever gone.

Even though it didn't get officially kicked off until about a week later than originally intended, and then had an extended interlude during the middle because we (on our end) didn't quite have it together for the Steelers pick, all of the reps really came through and still allowed us to get this whole shebang done in time before the start of the draft. Thank you again for all for your great work (and for tolerating the images of cheerleaders that I ended up plastering on a bunch of your posts).

Before we breakdown the actual results of the draft, let's recap the key ground rules we had -- this community mock draft was just going to cover the 1st round, and no trades were allowed.

2013 BTSC Community Mock Draft Results

Offense/defense split:

20 defensive players selected vs. just 12 offensive players

For comparison - the 1st round of the 2012 draft featured 17 defensive players selected vs. 15 offensive players.

Not sure yet if our results are indicative more of the actual talent in this year's draft, or the simple fact that Steelers fans love defense.

Picks to note:

No. 1 - Star Lotulelei (would be first defensive player as top pick since Mario Williams in 2006, and first defensive tackle to go first overall since Dan Wilkinson in 1994)

No. 5-7 - Three offensive tackles back-to-back-to back (Eric Fisher, Luke Joeckel, Lane Johnson)

No. 9-10 - Two guards are top-10 picks (Chance Warmack, Jonathan Cooper), which means half of the top-10 selections have been offensive linemen

No. 11 - Tavon Austin is the first receiver taken

No. 17 - Steelers pick TE Tyler Eifert (readers' choice with Austin/Patterson/Jones/Vaccaro all off the board already)

No. 22 - A RB does make it into the first round (Eddie Lacy)

No. 25 - Takes until here for the first QB off the board (Geno Smith)

No. 31-32 - The Super Bowl teams each land prospects that would've gone much, much higher if they were completely healthy (Tank Carradine and D.J. Hayden)

Position totals:

7 - pass rushers (defensive ends/outside linebackers)

5 - defensive tackles

4 - offensive tackles

4 - cornerbacks

3 - wide receivers

2 - guards

2 - linebackers

2 - safeties

1 - quarterback

1 - running back

1 - tight end

Note: The Darrelle Revis trade did not occur until after the Buccaneers' pick had already come and gone, though TheCommish did address the possibility in his write up.

	Team	Player	Pos	School	BTSC rep
1		Star Lotulelei	DT	Utah	[Link to pick]
2		Dion Jordan	DE/OLB	Oregon	[Link to pick]
3		Sharrif Floyd	DT	Florida	[Link to pick]
4		Dee Milliner	CB	Alabama	[Link to pick]
5		Eric Fisher	OT	Central Michigan	[Link to pick]
6		Luke Joeckel	OT	Texas A&M	[Link to pick]
7		Lane Johnson	OT	Oklahoma	[Link to pick]
8		Barkevious Mingo	OLB	LSU	[Link to pick]
9		Chance Warmack	OG	Alabama	[Link to pick]
10		Jonathan Cooper	OG	North Carolina	[Link to pick]
11		Tavon Austin	WR	West Virginia	[Link to pick]
12		Xavier Rhodes	CB	Florida State	[Link to pick]
13		Ezekiel Ansah	DE	BYU	[Link to pick]
14		Cordarrelle Patterson	WR	Tennessee	[Link to pick]
15		Jarvis Jones	OLB	Georgia	[Link to pick]
16		Kenny Vaccaro	S	Texas	[Link to pick]
17		Tyler Eifert	TE	Notre Dame	[Link to pick]
18		Sheldon Richardson	DT	Missouri	[Link to pick]
19		Bjoern Werner	DE	Florida State	[Link to pick]
20		D.J. Fluker	OT	Alabama	[Link to pick]
21		Alec Ogletree	LB	Georgia	[Link to pick]
22	via	Eddie Lacy	RB	Alabama	[Link to pick]
23		Sylvester Williams	DT	North Carolina	[Link to pick]
24		Datone Jones	DE	UCLA	[Link to pick]
25	via	Geno Smith	QB	West Virginia	[Link to pick]
26		Johnathan Hankins	DT	Ohio State	[Link to pick]
27		Arthur Brown	LB	Kansas State	[Link to pick]
28		Matt Elam	S	Florida	[Link to pick]
29		Keenan Allen	WR	California	[Link to pick]
30		Desmond Trufant	CB	Washington	[Link to pick]
31		Cornellius Carradine	DE/OLB	Florida State	[Link to pick]
32		D.J. Hayden	CB	Houston	[Link to pick]

Maybe you didn't like Tyler Eifert as the Steelers' top pick in this mock, but take comfort in the fact that there are still some talented prospects that would be guaranteed to be there by the time our pick comes up in the 2nd round.

(And remember - Pittsburgh currently has the 16th pick in the 2nd round because Cleveland used their selection in the supplemental draft, and New Orleans lost theirs to Bountygate.)

22 top prospects who would still be available in the 2nd round:

QB - Matt Barkley, E.J. Manuel, Ryan Nassib, Tyler Wilson

OL - Menelik Watson, Justin Pugh, Kyle Long

WR - DeAndre Hopkins, Justin Hunter, Robert Woods

TE - Zach Ertz

DT - Jesse Williams, Kawann Short

DE - Damontre Moore, Alex Okafor, Margus Hunt

LB - Manti Te'o, Kevin Minter

CB - Jamar Taylor, Johnthan Banks

S - John Cyprien, Eric Reid

Now given our ground rule of no trades, there admittedly is no way this mock is going to be super accurate at predicting what is going to transpire tonight.

But what do you think we did get right?

(Player-team pairings, top prospects off the board at each position, which guys will be 1st round picks and who will slide into Day 2, etc.)