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Acme Packing Company's 2016 mock draft continues on with round two, which will be released over the course of this week. The rules were simple: seven authors were assigned four or five teams apiece, and made the picks for each of those teams whenever they came up. We will pick the first three rounds of the draft. (Also, note that our picks were made prior to the trade between the LA Rams and Tennessee Titans for the first pick.)
The Green Bay Packers are second up in today's picks, and one player who might have intrigued them goes off the board just one slot in front of them to Seattle. Read on and let us know what you think about our projection for the Packers' second pick.
2.25 (#56 overall): Seattle Seahawks select DL Chris Jones, Mississippi State
Seattle gets a mammoth of a man for the interior of their defensive line with this pick. The 6'6", 310-pound Jones will slot in at defensive tackle and gives the Seahawks' defense yet another explosive athlete on the line. Combining this pick with a first-round cornerback just makes the Legion of Boom more impressive.
2.26 (#57): Green Bay Packers select ILB Joshua Perry, Ohio State
Jon Barnett: Green Bay has waited and they get their inside linebacker now. Perry is fast and has the size to play in the run game. He falls here because he is going to need some transition time to get into the 3-4 scheme and improve his run pursuit discipline. Coachable guy who steps in and has the speed to play all three downs. Tall, big and with good speed, he will be valuable in the middle against tight ends and will quickly grow into a run stopper and a blitzer.
2.27 (#58): Pittsburgh Steelers select CB Xavien Howard, Baylor
Jason B. Hirschhorn: As they generally do, the Steelers passed on a corner in the first round. They probably cannot afford to ignore the position any longer. Xavien Howard possesses the athleticism Pittsburgh favors in the secondary, though doesn't always play to his stature. Still, for a team that felt the loss of Ike Taylor in 2015, taking Howard here makes sense.
2.28 (#59): Kansas City Chiefs select ILB Scooby Wright III, Arizona
Jake Hyman: After botching the first Kansas City pick (thanks to the Chiefs extending running backs Charcandrick West and Spencer Ware just hours after the selection went in), Kansas City goes high-risk by selecting Scooby Wright III. Wright was a menace defensively as a sophomore, totaling 164 total tackles and 15.0 sacks. His knee injury was a bummer, considering he was expected to be one of the top juniors in the nation.
Wright could have been a top-15 talent if healthy, but the Chiefs would be ecstatic to see him fall to the second round. He's a dynamic talent and athlete, with major upside at the linebacker position.
Mock Draft Summary
Round One
Pick | Team | Player | Position | College |
1.1 | TEN | Laremy Tunsil | OT | Mississippi |
1.2 | CLE | Jared Goff | QB | California |
1.3 | SD | Jalen Ramsey | DB | Florida State |
1.4 | DAL | Joey Bosa | DE | Ohio State |
1.5 | JAX | Myles Jack | LB | UCLA |
1.6 | BAL | DeForest Buckner | DE | Oregon |
1.7 | SF | Carson Wentz | QB | North Dakota State |
1.8 | PHI (via MIA) | Ezekiel Elliott | RB | Ohio State |
1.9 | TB | Ronnie Stanley | OT | Notre Dame |
1.10 | NYG | Laquon Treadwell | WR | Mississippi |
1.11 | CHI | Vernon Hargreaves III | CB | Florida |
1.12 | NO | Sheldon Rankins | DT | Louisville |
1.13 | MIA (via PHI) | Shaq Lawson | DE | Clemson |
1.14 | OAK | Reggie Ragland | ILB | Alabama |
1.15 | LA | Paxton Lynch | QB | Memphis |
1.16 | DET | Jack Conklin | OT | Michigan State |
1.17 | ATL | Darron Lee | LB | Ohio State |
1.18 | IND | Noah Spence | OLB | Eastern Kentucky |
1.19 | BUF | Emmanuel Ogbah | DE | Oklahoma State |
1.20 | NYJ | A'Shawn Robinson | DT | Alabama |
1.21 | WAS | Cody Whitehair | OL | Kansas State |
1.22 | HOU | Josh Doctson | WR | TCU |
1.23 | MIN | Leonard Floyd | LB | Georgia |
1.24 | CIN | Corey Coleman | WR | Baylor |
1.25 | PIT | Taylor Decker | OT | Ohio State |
1.26 | SEA | William Jackson III | CB | Houston |
1.27 | GB | Andrew Billings | DT | Baylor |
1.28 | KC | Derrick Henry | RB | Alabama |
1.29 | ARI | Robert Nkemdiche | DL | Mississippi |
1.30 | CAR | Germain Ifedi | OT | Texas A&M |
1.31 | DEN | Jarran Reed | DT | Alabama |
Round Two
Pick | Team | Player | Position | College |
2.32 | CLE | Will Fuller | WR | Notre Dame |
2.33 | TEN | Mackensie Alexander | CB | Clemson |
2.34 | DAL | Eli Apple | CB | Ohio State |
2.35 | SD | Jason Spriggs | OT | Indiana |
2.36 | BAL | Kamalei Correa | OLB | Boise State |
2.37 | SF | Michael Thomas | WR | Ohio State |
2.38 | JAX | Karl Joseph | S | West Virginia |
2.39 | TB | Kendall Fuller | CB | Virginia Tech |
2.40 | NYG | Kenny Clark | DT | UCLA |
2.41 | CHI | Su'a Cravens | LB | USC |
2.42 | MIA | Jaylon Smith | LB | Notre Dame |
2.43 | LA (via PHI) | Vonn Bell | S | Ohio State |
2.44 | OAK | Keanu Neal | S | Florida |
2.45 | LA | Tyler Boyd | WR | Pittsburgh |
2.46 | DET | Vernon Butler | DT | Louisiana Tech |
2.47 | NO | Joshua Garnett | G | Stanford |
2.48 | IND | Ryan Kelly | C | Alabama |
2.49 | BUF | Sterling Shepard | WR | Oklahoma |
2.50 | ATL | Kevin Dodd | DE | Clemson |
2.51 | NYJ | Hunter Henry | TE | Arkansas |
2.52 | HOU | Jerald Hawkins | OT | LSU |
2.53 | WAS | Jonathan Bullard | DE | Florida |
2.54 | MIN | Braxton Miller | WR | Ohio State |
2.55 | CIN | Adolphus Washington | DT | Ohio State |
2.56 | SEA | Chris Jones | DT | Mississippi State |
2.57 | GB | Joshua Perry | ILB | Ohio State |
2.58 | PIT | Xavien Howard | CB | Mississippi State |
2.59 | KC | Scooby Wright III | LB | Arizona |
2.60 | NE | |||
2.61 | NE (from ARI) | |||
2.62 | CAR | |||
2.63 | DEN |