Dallas Cowboys Seven-Round Mock Drafts: Who The Fans Would Pick

On Saturday last week we launched our second 2015 BTB Mock Draft Challenge of the year in which we asked BTB members for their mock Cowboys drafts and then asked the community to vote on the mocks. But instead of simply asking for a list of randomly put together names, or copying something Fanspeak, we limited the flexibility by establishing some specific rules: The mock draft had to be conducted according to the player rankings provided by the CBSSports.com big board. Only one trade-down was allowed, and trading up was only permissible if the trade value points given up were equal to or greater than the trade value points received.

This significantly limited the options in the mock drafts and forced the mockers to make decisions that they might not have had to make with a less rigorous approach. Also, the mockers were stuck with where a given player was ranked by CBSSports.

77 valid mocks were submitted in total, and a staggering 168 different players were picked in those mocks.

The CBSSports big board had some early Cowboys fan favorites like Todd Gurley (No. 18 overall), Owamagbe Odighizuwa (No. 24), and Kevin Johnson (No. 26) ranked ahead of the Cowboys' 27th pick. You would think that such a short hop would entice many Cowboys fans to move up, but that didn't happen. This is what the 77 mock drafts ended up doing with their first pick:

Trade up: 5
Stay put: 23
Trade down: 49

Here's the consensus seven-round mock draft that emerged from our exercise, which includes a trade down into the second round. The comments for each pick are provided by the BTB-members who picked the respective players in their mock drafts.

Note that if I had simply chosen the most popular pick in each round for this consensus mock, we'd have ended up with four offensive and defensive tackles, so I edited things a little.

In order to establish how popular a given player was, I counted 'votes' for each player mentioned in a mock draft, with each rec' counting as one vote. So in an eight-player mock that received three rec's, each player selected gets 3 votes. In total, the 77 mocks got 576 rec's, so to arrive at a given player's popularity, I divided his votes by 576.

Running back Tevin Coleman out of Indiana proved to be the most popular player in this Mock Draft Challenge. He was featured in 33 of the 77 submitted mocks, and got 265 out of 576 possible recs (46%). Here are the favorite players per round as ranked by percentage of total votes (min 10% of total vote to qualify), with 'rank' indicating the position on the CBSSports big board published on March 23, 2015:

And now it's time for you to vote on your favorite mock draft. Below is a mock draft summary of the consensus mock as well as the four leading vote-getters from the weekend. Note that all of these mocks traded down into the second round and got various additional picks in return.

BTB Mock Draft overview

Which of these proposed mocks do you like the most?