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2014 NFL mock draft: Predicting the first 64 picks

A look back at all 64 picks in the 2014 POD Community Mock Draft.

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The 2014 POD Community Mock Draft came to a close earlier this week, giving us two full rounds of predictions for the actual 2014 NFL Draft, which will begin on Thursday. Below you can look back at all 64 picks that were made in our mock draft, and you can see the approval ratings that were handed out for each pick as well. Check it out:

ROUND 1
# Team General manager Player Pos. College Approval
1 Houston Texans Kudos Blake Bortles QB
UCF
65%
2 St. Louis Rams (From WAS) Lead Hunter Greg Robinson OT
Auburn
78%
3 Jacksonville Jaguars Big.AL Jadeveon Clowney DE
South Carolina
93%
4 Cleveland Browns Bighaircut Johnny Manziel QB
Texas A&M
64%
5 Oakland Raiders DrewsLions Sammy Watkins WR
Clemson
81%
6 Atlanta Falcons TerribleTyler56 Khalil Mack OLB
Buffalo
92%
7 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Dave Marshall Jake Matthews OT
Texas A&M
77%
8 Minnesota Vikings separateunion Teddy Bridgewater QB
Louisville
64%
9 Buffalo Bills CLF Taylor Lewan OT
Michigan 70%
10 Detroit Lions Jeremy Reisman Anthony Barr OLB
UCLA
65%
11 Tennessee Titans detroit_fan Mike Evans WR
Texas A&M
76%
12 New York Giants StaffordSuperBowlMVP Eric Ebron TE
North Carolina
82%
13 St. Louis Rams Lead Hunter Ha Ha Clinton-Dix S
Alabama
80%
14 Chicago Bears DLions4Eva Aaron Donald DT
Pittsburgh
78%
15 Pittsburgh Steelers ncbur10 Justin Gilbert CB
Oklahoma State
90%
16 Dallas Cowboys sgdbw90 Timmy Jernigan
DT
Florida State
64%
17 Baltimore Ravens scottishlionsfan Calvin Pryor S
Louisville
88%
18 New York Jets JWurm Brandin Cooks WR
Oregon State
66%
19 Miami Dolphins Nate D. Zack Martin OT/OG
Notre Dame
86%
20 Arizona Cardinals Reno09 Ryan Shazier LB
Ohio State
67%
21 Green Bay Packers Jettero2112 Louis Nix
DT
Notre Dame
39%
22 Philadelphia Eagles n4ry4 Odell Beckham Jr. WR
LSU
78%
23 Kansas City Chiefs Jack H Stephon Tuitt DE
Notre Dame
72%
24 Cincinnati Bengals juhsayngul Darqueze Dennard CB
Michigan State
87%
25 San Diego Chargers David Tokarz Kony Ealy
DE/OLB
Missouri
57%
26 Cleveland Browns (From IND) Bighaircut Marqise Lee WR
USC
65%
27 New Orleans Saints JustWinginit Kelvin Benjamin WR
Florida State
56%
28 Carolina Panthers SUHPERHERO Morgan Moses
OT
Virginia
61%
29 New England Patriots tjwGOblue Austin Seferian-Jenkins TE
Washington
70%
30 San Francisco 49ers JCruize Ra'Shede Hageman DT
Minnesota
64%
31 Denver Broncos JayLaw C.J. Mosley
MLB
Alabama
96%
32 Seattle Seahawks seabeeruss Xavier Su'a-Filo OG/OT
UCLA
78%

Four picks in the first round hit an approval rating of 90% or higher: C.J. Mosley (Denver Broncos), Jadeveon Clowney (Jacksonville Jaguars), Khalil Mack (Atlanta Falcons) and Justin Gilbert (Pittsburgh Steelers). The Mosley pick led the entire draft at 96%, and the average was 73% for the first round.

ROUND 2
# Team General manager Player Pos. College Approval
33 Houston Texans Kudos Dee Ford OLB
Auburn
62%
34 Washington Redskins Jefjil Cyrus Kouandjio OT
Alabama
84%
35 Cleveland Browns Bighaircut Jimmie Ward S
Northern Illinois
49%
36 Oakland Raiders DrewsLions Jace Amaro TE
Texas Tech
46%
37 Atlanta Falcons TerribleTyler56 Jason Verrett CB
TCU
41%
38 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Dave Marshall Allen Robinson WR
Penn State
76%
39 Jacksonville Jaguars Big.AL Marcus Martin C
USC
58%
40 Minnesota Vikings separateunion Kyle Van Noy OLB
BYU
80%
41 Buffalo Bills CLF Kyle Fuller CB
Virginia Tech
77%
42 Tennessee Titans detroit_fan Carlos Hyde RB
Ohio State
82%
43 New York Giants StaffordSuperBowlMVP Scott Crichton DE
Oregon State
74%
44 St. Louis Rams Lead Hunter Bradley Roby CB
Ohio State
66%
45 Detroit Lions Jeremy Reisman Deone Bucannon S
Washington State
65%
46 Pittsburgh Steelers ncbur10 Donte Moncrief WR
Ole Miss
76%
47 Dallas Cowboys sgdbw90 Demarcus Lawrence DE
Boise State
86%
48 Baltimore Ravens scottishlionsfan Gabe Jackson OG
Mississippi State
73%
49 New York Jets JWurm Lamarcus Joyner CB
Florida State
45%
50 Miami Dolphins Nate D. Ja'Wuan James OT
Tennessee
78%
51 Chicago Bears DLions4Eva Marcus Roberson CB
Florida
52%
52 Arizona Cardinals Reno09 Derek Carr QB
Fresno State
84%
53 Green Bay Packers Jettero2112 Terrence Brooks S
Florida State
55%
54 Philadelphia Eagles n4ry4 Bashaud Breeland CB
Clemson
49%
55 Cincinnati Bengals juhsayngul Weston Richburg C
Colorado State
66%
56 San Francisco 49ers (From KC) JCruize Jordan Matthews WR
Vanderbilt
80%
57 San Diego Chargers David Tokarz Jarvis Landry WR
LSU
62%
58 New Orleans Saints JustWinginit Keith McGill CB
Utah
69%
59 Indianapolis Colts jerrydlux Joel Bitonio OG/OT
Nevada
67%
60 Carolina Panthers SUHPERHERO Davante Adams WR
Fresno State
89%
61 San Francisco 49ers JCruize Phillip Gaines CB
Rice
80%
62 New England Patriots tjwGOblue Trent Murphy DE/OLB
Stanford
76%
63 Denver Broncos JayLaw David Yankey OG
Stanford
88%
64 Seattle Seahawks seabeeruss Troy Niklas TE
Notre Dame
76%

The Broncos nearly had the highest approval rating in the second round as well (at 88%), but the Carolina Panthers edged them with an 89% rating for their selection of Davante Adams. The average in the second round dropped to 69%, by the way, putting the overall average approval rating for this mock draft at 71%.

Thanks again to everybody who participated in the 2014 POD Community Mock Draft, and thanks to everybody for reading along and voting in our polls. This is always a lot of fun, and it will be interesting to see how many picks end up actually happening in real life this year.