The NFL draft order for 2015 is set now that the season is over and mock drafts have already started to pop up with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tennessee Titans, Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders, Washington Redskins, NY Jets, Chicago Bears and NY Giants coming in with top 10 picks and names like Jameis Winston, Marcus Mariota, Melvin Gordon and Amari Cooper will be main targets.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are expected to take Marcus Mariota or Jameis Winston with the top pick, as they went 2-14 this season and need a quarterback. There is a chance that the team could trade the pick and go for someone like Jay Cutler or a QB in free agency, but that will be down the road. Winston and Mariota will have the most attention at quarterback, while players like Cooper, Shaq Thompson, Shane Ray, Leonard Williams, Kevin White, Vic Beasley and Devin Funchess all could be potential first round picks.
The Buccaneers and Titans each finished 2-14, but the Buccaneers won the strength of schedule tiebreaker and got the top pick. Oakland is in the top five once again and they will be number four behind the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Raiders come in ahead of the Redskins, who went 4-12, along with the Jets and New York will be there at number six. The Jets may look to trade up to get a quarterback and this comes as Rex Ryan and John Idzik were fired on Black Monday.
The Jets are sixth ahead of the Chicago Bears, while the Atlanta Falcons, NY Giants, St. Louis Rams and Minnesota Vikings are next. Cleveland has number 12 and number 19 from a trade with Buffalo, while New Orleans, Miami, the San Francisco 49ers and Houston Texans are next. The Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers have the next picks ahead of the Browns, while the Philadelphia Eagles are at number 20.
The rest of the draft order will be set as the playoffs continue and teams start to lose. The Browns have two picks in the top 20 and they could use those to trade up and the rest of the draft order will come as the playoffs finish out, with the wild card weekend games will give spots 21-24, and divisional round losers will be 25-28. The Giants ended up in the top 10 after losing to the Eagles on Sunday, while the Buccaneers clinched the number one pick with their loss against the Saints.
