Bleacher Report

● By Steve Silverman

Accuracy: 21.15%39th Place
Christmas, NFL style, is just around the corner for commissioner Roger Goodell's 32 teams. The NFL draft starts Thursday night in Nashville, Tennessee. It takes three days to go through seven rounds, and with the draft just days away, new stories and rumors tend to surface. While teams are unlikely to reveal their draft plans ahead of time, some nuggets can be quite informative, while others may turn out to be disinformation. Here's the latest first-round mock draft, along with several noteworthy items to consider.

Top Players Not Included

These players appear in the top 32 of our

Consensus Big Board

, but do not show up in this mock.