As noted by Matt Miller, it is NFL Draft week and you have to take everything with a grain of salt.
That being said, this report should interest Detroit Lions fans as Miller is reporting that there is
“a lot of chatter” about the Jacksonville Jaguars and OL Ikem Ekwonu out of North Carolina State.
http://gty.im/1349557608
“It’s draft week, which means it’s lying week, but there is a lot of chatter this morning about the Jaguars and Ikem Ekwonu. Could be that they like him a lot and might not draft him…but the buzz is definitely out there that he is in play at No. 1 overall.”
It's draft week, which means it's lying week, but there is a lot of chatter this morning about the Jaguars and Ikem Ekwonu.
Could be that they like him a lot and might not draft him…but the buzz is definitely out there that he is in play at No. 1 overall.
— Matt Miller (@nfldraftscout) April 25, 2022
If the Jaguars do select Ekwonu at No. 1, that would leave Aidan Hutchinson for the Lions and that (other than a trade down) may just be the perfect scenario.
http://gty.im/1362165357
NFL Draft Betting: The 3 Best Bets in the Top-10 Pick Market
There are a ton of ways to bet the NFL Draft at FanDuel Sportsbook this year, including specific players at specific picks, but there is also a top-5 (which I already analyzed) and top-10 pick market.
There are a lot. I won’t list them all, but there are a lot.
Here are the odds for everyone else to go inside the top 10 of the 2022 NFL Draft.
Where might there be betting value?
Rankings in the table refer to ESPN’s Best Player Available rankings (ESPN), NFL Mock Draft Database’s Consensus Big Board rankings (MDD), and Grinding the Mocks’ expected draft position (GTM).
| Player | FDSportsbook | ESPN | MDD | GTM | Avg |
| Ahmad Gardner | -1000 | 5 | 6 | 6.5 | 5.8 |
| Kayvon Thibodeaux | -1000 | 7 | 2 | 4.7 | 4.6 |
| Charles Cross | -350 | 15 | 8 | 10.5 | 11.2 |
| Garrett Wilson | -170 | 6 | 10 | 10.7 | 8.9 |
| Derek Stingley | -135 | 11 | 9 | 11.4 | 10.5 |
| Jermaine Johnson | -135 | 10 | 12 | 11.9 | 11.3 |
| Malik Willis | -115 | 21 | 11 | 9.7 | 13.9 |
| Drake London | +100 | 9 | 13 | 16.5 | 12.8 |
| Kyle Hamilton | +100 | 4 | 7 | 11.7 | 7.6 |
| Jameson Williams | +175 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 16.3 |
| Kenny Pickett | +175 | 22 | 17 | 16.5 | 18.5 |
| Jordan Davis | +350 | 16 | 14 | 16.6 | 15.5 |
| Devin Lloyd | +600 | 13 | 18 | 18.9 | 16.6 |
| Trevor Penning | +600 | 25 | 21 | 18.1 | 21.4 |
| Treylon Burks | +1200 | 26 | 22 | 22.4 | 23.5 |
| Desmond Ridder | +1200 | 36 | 37 | 30.2 | 34.4 |
| Chris Olave | +1200 | 17 | 16 | 19.1 | 17.4 |
| George Karlaftis | +1400 | 24 | 20 | 22 | 22.0 |
| Matt Corral | +1400 | 34 | 33 | 27.5 | 31.5 |
| Andrew Booth | +1400 | 29 | 23 | 24.8 | 25.6 |
| Daxton Hill | +1400 | 23 | 30 | 29 | 27.3 |
| Tyler Linderbaum | +2000 | 18 | 24 | 26.5 | 22.8 |
| Sam Howell | +2000 | 50 | 55 | 44.1 | 49.7 |
| Nakobe Dean | +3000 | 12 | 27 | 27.6 | 22.2 |
| David Ojabo | +10000 | 30 | 32 | 30.3 | 30.8 |
