Thread for draft simulations:

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Dominant TE, true nose tackle, big raw CB with high ceiling, high floor ILB that can play right away. Use all the FA money on O line.

[Michael K.]

The two Tackles Banks and Campbell fell, then went the two picks right before me. So I kept trading back. Bring home the local boy from Ohio State, get a QB, a shit ton of lineman and a Michigan RB. Not terrible, but not great. We pick in a bad spot.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

An Edge guy followed by Ewers and then two Oregon tackles? Are you insane??? (Just kidding).

I'd appreciate it if everyone would do at least one draft without any trades. That makes it easier to compare our approaches and see which needs people think need to be addressed.

[rockycola]

It's so easy to make trades on the Simulator/Stimulator but I turned down al the trade offers and picked a winner, even the QB & TE from Notre Dame. Drafted the #3 ranked Center, although #'s 1&2 (according to DraftBuzz) were still on the board.
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[rockycola]

Went crazy on this one. Traded, back, back, back. Still got a lot of O & D beef and filled in other positions. No, QB, though.
Ended up with 11 picks and a great cache of 12 picks for 2026 (Not sure how many of Seattle's own I kept but I'm pretty sure I kept the #1 & #2, at the least, so should have #1 and 4 #2's next year. Hey! It's Monopoly money and picks.
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[Sibelius Hindemith]

Those are always fun to do but when you take a closer look at it it becomes apparent why no NFL team ever does that. You're drafting a bunch of guys projected (at best) to be backups that might eventually become starters. Most of them will get cut unless your roster is so bereft of depth (or talent) that adding 10+ rookies would make sense.

Besides, it just isn't as easy to make draft day trades as the simulator makes it seem.

[Michael K.]

Those are always fun to do but when you take a closer look at it it becomes apparent why no NFL team ever does that. You're drafting a bunch of guys projected (at best) to be backups that might eventually become starters. Most of them will get cut unless your roster is so bereft of depth that adding 10+ rookies would make sense.

Besides, it just isn't as easy to make draft day trades as the simulator makes it seem.

Yeah, I stated for years when PC and JS kept doing that that they were passing on actual NFL talent for guys like Tedrick Thompson and Mike Tyson! It is tempting though. A few years ago we did these simulators, and there were some guys in the middle of the draft I just loved. One was a LB/S that many of us felt like was similar to Kam. Another was a WR/RB from somewhere like Memphis I think. I can totally picture him, he was the #1 in Washington for awhile. Is still playing, I think in New England. And in many of the simulations that year I would trade back when the guys I wanted fell, in hopes of getting one or both of them. I almost never did. That was a very deep draft though. Maybe as I do more of these my opinion of this draft will change? But it doesn't feel like a very good draft.

[Michael K.]

This feels like a draft I might complain about if JS did it. LOL.

I bitch for weeks about our weak O Line, and yes, I address it, but my first two O Lineman are Tackles, and we need help on the interior. I guess we open up the competition and maybe move Lucas inside, or one of the new guys?

I love Jack Sawyer, I actually traded up a few spots to get him....but that is most likely recency bias, and if I loved him so much? Why did I take another Edge 5 picks later!? I love Etienne, but he is probably a change of pace guy in the NFL. So maybe that means I am cutting Walker and starting Charbonnet, who I have said for weeks isn't a starter?

Took a flier on a QB late, who has arm strength issues. His scouting report was pretty good as far as running and mobility though.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

This feels like a draft I might complain about if JS did it. LOL.

I did a similar one...

For some reason Jack Belch and Thor Griffith keep dropping to me in later rounds. Maybe because they're white?

[Sibelius Hindemith]

I let the simulator do the entire draft and this is what it came up with for Seattle...

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