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2019 NFL Mock Draft: Senior Bowl bumps stock for some top prospects

By Sayre Bedinger

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE - DECEMBER 31: Drew Lock #3 of the Missouri Tigers throws the ball against the Oklahoma State Cowboys during the first half of the AutoZone Liberty Bowl at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium on December 31, 2018 in Memphis, Tennessee. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE - DECEMBER 31: Drew Lock #3 of the Missouri Tigers throws the ball against the Oklahoma State Cowboys during the first half of the AutoZone Liberty Bowl at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium on December 31, 2018 in Memphis, Tennessee. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) /
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MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE – DECEMBER 31: Drew Lock #3 of the Missouri Tigers throws the ball against the Oklahoma State Cowboys during the first half of the AutoZone Liberty Bowl at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium on December 31, 2018 in Memphis, Tennessee. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE – DECEMBER 31: Drew Lock #3 of the Missouri Tigers throws the ball against the Oklahoma State Cowboys during the first half of the AutoZone Liberty Bowl at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium on December 31, 2018 in Memphis, Tennessee. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) /

The 2019 Senior Bowl bumped up the stock of some of this year’s top prospects. How does that affect our latest 2019 NFL mock draft?

There is only one game left on the NFL schedule in the 2018-19 season with Super Bowl LIII pitting the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots.

This is a fun matchup that really brings me back to when I was a kid and really starting to get into the details of the game of football. Back then, Tom Brady was facing off against an ‘older’ quarterback in Kurt Warner and the Greatest Show on Turf for his first ever Super Bowl appearance.

In that game (2001 season, Brady’s second year in the NFL) the guy who will go down as the greatest to ever play completed 16 of his 27 passes for 145 yards and one touchdown. The Patriots won 20-17, beginning the most impressive dynasty in professional sports over the last 20 years.

Brady is now playing in his 9th career Super Bowl while Rams quarterback Jared Goff is playing in his first. Goff is in just his third NFL season but is operating a Rams offense that is at least in the same discussion as the offense they had back in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

If Goff and the Rams want to win their first Super Bowl since the 1999 season, they are going to have to take down a guy who has thrown for 2,576 yards, 18 touchdowns, and only five interceptions in his previous eight Super Bowl appearances.

If history tells us anything, the Rams will need to take the game down to the very last second in order to beat Brady, because the guy doesn’t go down without a fight.

In the meantime, 30 other teams are making preparations for the 2019 NFL Draft. The 2019 Senior Bowl concluded with a bit less buzz at the quarterback position than we had a year ago when the game featured two top 10 picks at the position in Baker Mayfield and Josh Allen.

Drew Lock seems to have entrenched himself as a first-round player after the event, but who else raised their stock over the course of the past week-plus? How will the rest of the NFL get themselves back on the map and compete with the likes of the Rams and Patriots going forward?

Here’s our latest first-round NFL mock draft projection (as well as picks for teams without first-round selections.

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