As we enter the home stretch of college football season, the draft profiles for many of these players are starting to take shape. That being said, many of these position groups are still up in the air and will continue to change throughout the rest of the college football season, especially when we get to bowl games and playoffs. It’s been a few weeks since we’ve looked at a Superflex mock draft, so let’s dive into a fresh 4-round Superflex mock draft and highlight a few first-round players that might be on the move on our big boards as we get closer to the NFL draft in April.
Round 1
1.01 - Ashton Jeanty (RB, Boise State)
1.02 - Tetairoa McMillan (WR, Arizona)
1.03 - Travis Hunter (WR, Colorado)
1.04 - Luther Burden III (WR, Missouri)
1.05 - Emeka Egbuka (WR, Ohio State)
1.06 - TreVeyon Henderson (RB, Ohio State)
1.07 - Quinshon Judkins (RB, Ohio State)
1.08 - Nick Singleton (RB, Penn State)
1.09 - Cam Ward (QB, Miami)
1.10 - Shedeur Sanders (QB, Colorado)
1.11 - Omarion Hampton (RB, North Carolina)
1.12 - Kaleb Johnson (RB, Iowa)
Round 2
2.01 - Tre Harris (WR, Ole Miss)
2.02 - Jalen Milroe (QB, Alabama)
2.03 - Tyler Warren (TE, Penn State)
2.04 - Dylan Samson (RB, Tennessee)
2.05 - Jordan James (RB, Oregon)
2.06 - Evan Stewart (WR, Oregon)
2.07 - Trevor Etienne (RB, Georgia)
2.08 - Coleston Loveland (TE, Michigan)
2.09 - Isaiah Bond (WR, Texas)
2.10 - Jonah Coleman (RB, Washington)
2.11 - Elic Ayomanor (WR, Stanford)
2.12 - Antonio Williams (WR, Clemson)
Round 3
3.01 - Harold Fannin Jr. (TE, Bowling Green)
3.02 - Devin Neal (RB, Kansas)
3.03 - Xavier Restrepo (WR, Miami)
3.04 - Ricky White (WR, UNLV)
3.05 - Jayden Higgins (WR, Iowa State)
3.06 - Cade Klubnik (QB, Clemson)
3.07 - Ollie Gordon II (RB, Oklahoma State)
3.08 - DJ Giddens (RB, Kansas State)
3.09 - Tahj Brooks (RB, Texas Tech)
3.10 - Kurtis Rourke (QB, Indiana)
3.11 - Drew Allar (QB, Penn State)
3.12 - Kyle Monangai (RB, Rutgers)
Round 4
4.01 - Mason Taylor (TE, LSU)
4.02 - Tai Felton (WR, Maryland)
4.03 - RJ Harvey (RB, UCF)
4.04 - Tez Johnson (WR, Oregon)
4.05 - Jalen Royals (WR, Utah State)
4.06 - Dane Key (WR, Kentucky)
4.07 - Woody Marks (RB, USC)
4.08 - Carson Beck (QB, Georgia)
4.09 - Kyren Lacy (WR, LSU)
4.10 - Oronde Gadsden II (TE, Syracuse)
4.11 - Theo Wease Jr. (WR, Missouri)
4.12 - Terrance Ferguson (TE, Oregon)
Player Spotlights
1.03 - Travis Hunter
(WR, Colorado)
Travis Hunter turned in his best game of the year on Saturday, going for nine catches, 153 yards, and two touchdowns. He’s currently 10th in receiving yards on the year with 757 yards and 1st with an exceptional 87% catch rate for players with at least 50 targets. He has elite movement and ball skills and is amazing after the catch as well. If he were to only play WR in the NFL he would be in the conversation of the 1.01 pick in rookie drafts next year.
The fact that he’s putting up elite numbers while also being a shutdown corner on the opposite side of the ball is mind-blowing and we may be discounting just how effective he can be for fantasy in the NFL if he does end up playing both ways.
1.04 - Luther Burden III
(WR, Missouri)
Luther Burden III continues to be criminally under-utilized by Missouri this year. Last year he had 93 yards receiving per game and this year just 56.25. It has not entirely been his fault; Missouri is ranked 99th in passing this year, according to PFF, as their struggles at QB have held back the production of Burden.
Burden’s explosiveness and run-after-the-catch ability still shine on film and he should still be a 1st round pick in the NFL draft. With the lack of production, though, it will be interesting to see if Burden slips in the draft and falls below Emeka Egbuka, who possesses a similar skill set to Burden but has a better production profile this year.
1.09 - Cam Ward
(QB, Miami)
Cam Ward has been the one quarterback to separate himself from the rest of the pack this year. Ward has thrown for 2,746 yards, 24 touchdowns, and five interceptions this year and has made some big-time throws on the year, currently tied with Shedeur for 4th in the league with 20 big-time throws. He is firmly in the Heisman conversation and could very well be the first QB taken in the NFL draft.
He is far from a perfect prospect, though, as there are concerns with his mechanics and apparent lack of effort on certain plays. That being said, if any QB in this draft gets top 10 draft capital, they deserve to be taken earlier than 9th in Superflex, and it remains to be seen if it will be Ward, Shedeur Sanders, Jalen Milroe, or a darkhorse that claims the top spot.