As Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes said a few times over the past couple weeks, NFL mock drafts have no basis in reality. Holmes tried to say it as nicely as possible—since he was talking to a bunch of media members who have created mock drafts—but you know what he really meant by the quote below: your mock drafts are dumb and have no bearing on our process of evaluating talent.
“It’s no disrespect to the mock drafts. It’s no disrespect to the guys that everyone had in their mock drafts and stuff,” Holmes said.