USA Today

● By Nate Davis

Accuracy: 6.01%887th Place
With Super Bowl 57 already receding into the desert horizon, the NFL's offseason is officially here in force. The annual quarterback carousel has already begun spinning amid Derek Carr's release in Las Vegas, and the coming days will be flecked with talk of franchise tags and such. But the league's annual scouting combine isn't two weeks away – and that means the opening of draft season. Yay. Naturally, that means mock drafts – even if these early iterations are inherently flawed by the lack of insight that free agency and trades will provide. But let's not allow that to stop premature projections of how Round 1 of the 2023 draft will unfold (Note: The Miami Dolphins, who were scheduled to select 21st, forfeited their pick for illegally tampering with QB Tom Brady and coach Sean Payton when they were under contract with other clubs):

Top Players Not Included

These players appear in the top 31 of our

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, but do not show up in this mock.