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NFL Mock Draft 2016: Full 1st-Round Picks and Who’s Falling Down the Board

March 23, 2016   ·     ·   Jump to comments

Robert Nkemdiche was once regarded as a possibility for the No. 1 overall pick in this year's NFL draft. Now, he's a late first-round prospect.
The draft can be difficult to predict because of situations like this. So many factors—health, off-field concerns, positional need—can radically affect where a player is taken in the draft. A player with a top-10 projection can slide into the 20s or lower for many reasons.
Nkemdiche is a prime example. He's a player with incredible talent who has fallen down draft boards because of poor decisions away from football. Other prospects have slid as teams dissect their weaknesses or because the perfect franchise to pick them is projected to choose someone else.
Let's take a look at this year's first round and mock the picks while taking note of some of the players who are sliding or could be on draft day.
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