GM Experiment

Once again, NFL Draft Pros will be taking our swing at showing our GM-ness during the 2013 NFL Draft.

This will be our 4th year performing this ongoing experiment. Here is how we do it. We will have the same amount of time as the NFL teams do. We will go on the clock as soon as pick 16 in each round in revealed, and will have until pick 17 in each round is announced. We can draft any player that is still undrafted. In addition to the picks in the middle of each round. We will take the very last pick in rounds 3, 5, & 7. Call these our compensatory picks. So we will have a total of 10 picks. On Saturday night, immediately following Mr. Irrelevant,  we will then "sign" between 5-10 Undrafted Free Agents. We do it right away to ensure that we don't know where those players eventually do sign.

If you're interested in seeing our picks as they happen, be sure you're following NFL Draft Pros on Twitter.

Here's our past draft classes. You'll notice an evolution on the number of picks. In 2009 we simply took 1 per round, with 2 UFAs. We soon found out it would take nearly a decade to even fill out a roster. So we increased the number of UFAs, then scaled back the UFAs and added the comp picks. Nothing is perfect, but we think the system we have now is pretty good.

	2009			2010
1	Michael Oher, OT, Mississippi		1	Kyle Wilson, CB, Boise St.
2	William Mooore, S, Missouri		2	Golden Tate, WR, Notre Dame
3	Shawn Nelson, TE, Southern Miss		3	Everson Griffen, DL, USC
4	Lawrence Sidbury , DE , Richmond		4	Cam Thomas, DT, North Carolina
5	Herman Johnson, OG, LSU		5	Dekoda Watson, OLB, Florida St.
6	Rashad Jennings, RB, Liberty		6	Myron Rolle, S, Florida St.
7	Quan Cosby, WR, Texas		7	Syd'Quan Thompson, CB Cal
FA	Darry Beckwith, ILB, LSU		FA	Ciron Black, OL, LSU
FA	Mike Reilly, QB, Central Washington		FA	Mike McLaughlin, ILB, Boston College
			FA	Antonio Coleman, OLB, Auburn
	2011		FA	Blair White, WR, Michigan St.
1	De'Quan Bowers, DE, Clemson		FA	Chris Marinelli, OL, Stanford
2	Marvin Austin, DT, North Carolina		FA	Jeff Byers, C, USC
3	Curtis Brown, CB, Texas		FA	Freddie Barnes, WR, Bowling Green
4	Jordan Todman, RB, UConn		FA	Leigh Tiffin, K, Alabama
4	Ricky Stanzi, QB, Iowa		FA	Jamie McCoy, FB, Texas A&M
5	Denarius Moore, WR, Tennessee		FA	Leroy Vann, KR, Florida A&M
5	DeMarcus Love, OL, Arkansas
6	Greg Jones, ILB, Michigan St.			2012
6	Lee Ziemba, OT, Auburn		1	David DeCastro, OG, Stanford
7	Greg Romeus, DE, Pittsburgh		2	Brandon Thompson, DT, Clemson
7	Henry Hynoski, FB, Pitt		3	Lamar Miller, RB, Miami
FA	Jeron Johnson, S, Boise St		4	Brandon Boykin, CB, Georgia
FA	Noel Devine, RB, West Virginia		4	Marvin Jones, WR, Cal
FA	Ian Williams, DL, Notre Dame		5	Terrell Manning, OLB, NC St.
FA	Tori Gurley, WR, South Carolina		5	Cam Johnson, DE, Virginia
FA	Ryan Bartholomew, C, Syracuse		6	Emmanual Acho, OLB, Texas
FA	Zane Taylor, OL, Utah		6	Lucas Nix, OG, Pitt
FA	Colby Whitlock, DL, Texas Tech		7	Travis Lewis, LB, Oklahoma
FA	Dane Sanzenbacher, WR, Ohio St.		7	Chase Minnifield, CB, Virginia
FA	Jason Teague, CB, TCU		FA	James Brown, OG, Troy
FA	Josh Bynes, ILB, Auburn		FA	Leonard Johnson, CB, Iowa St.
FA	Mario Fannin, RB, Auburn		FA	Mike Brewster, C, Ohio St.
FA	Armon Binns, WR, Cincinnati		FA	Levy Adcock, OT, Oklahoma St.
FA	Ryan Jones, CB, Northwest Missouri State		FA	Tashaun Gipson, FS, Wyoming
FA	Nick Bellore, LB, Central Michigan		FA	Dale Moss, WR, South Dakota St.
FA	Vai Taua, RB, Nevada		FA	Matt Conrath, DT, Virginia
FA	Pierre Allen, DE, Nebraska		FA	Shawn Loiseau, ILB, Merrimack
FA	David Mims, OT, Virginia Union		FA	Eddie Whitley, FS, Virginia Tech
FA	Scott Tolzien, QB, Wisconsin		FA	Tony Jerod-Eddie, DT, Texas A&M
FA	Kristofer O'Dowd, C, USC
FA	Kai Forbath, K, UCLA