General rule of thumb to me is: the further we get away from CFB season, the further the mock drafts & rumors get away from what people saw on the field.
Example: No one in their right mind had Fernando Mendoza & Ty Simpson in the same sentence during football season but now their are people debating who is better between them, as if the season & actual games don't matter at all.
Mendoza will go ahead of Simpson but the fact that anyone is considering Ty Simpson in the 1st round is wild to me. He wasn't good