Final mock.
Real grade.

// 2026 lessons · use before next April

What the board was telling us

If you had checked MockGrader before the 2026 draft, you would have had a better map for which analysts to trust, where consensus was fragile, and why track record beats draft-week noise.

• Trenches ruled the round Nine offensive linemen went in Round 1, including a long run of tackles and guards through the middle of the board. That kind of structural demand matters as much as player rankings.
• Ohio State owned the top 11 Four Ohio State players landed in the top 11: Carnell Tate, Arvell Reese, Sonny Styles, and Caleb Downs. The class rewarded analysts who spotted where the blue-chip cluster met team needs.
• Consensus had limits The lesson was not that mocks are useless. It was that final mocks should be treated as track records: who reads the board, who overfits consensus, and who has earned trust when the league gets weird.

// transparent rubric · public methodology

How scoring works

We take each analyst's last published mock before the draft and score it against the actual Round 1 order. One rubric, every year, no adjustments after the fact.