Washington Huskies: NFL mock draft consensus on Trent McDuffie and Kyler Gordon
We’re back with our first Mock Draft Consensus of 2022. PNWS lets you know where former Washington Huskies defensive backs Trent McDuffie and Kyler Gordon will go in the NFL Draft.
The NFL Draft is an important time for the Washington Huskies football program. It always hurts to lose good players, but the Dawgs and their fans can celebrate UW alumni headed to play at the highest level of professional football.
Putting players in the NFL is some of the best advertising the Huskies can get when recruiting. UW is earning a good reputation for developing defensive backs. In 2021, there were 34 Washington Huskies alumni either on NFL rosters or practice squads; 8 were defensive backs. With league stalwarts such as Budda Baker, Marcus Peters, Byron Murphy, and Taylor Rapp, it’s no wonder that Washington is quickly becoming Defensive Back U.
Two UW defensive backs went in the 2021 draft; Elijah Molden (third round, 100th overall, Tennessee Titans) and Keith Taylor (fifth round, 166th overall, Carolina). Two more, Trent McDuffie and Kyler Gordon, will join them after this year’s draft.
After last year’s COVID re-shuffle, the pre-draft season is back to business as usual in 2022. The NFL Combine runs March 1 – 7. Washington’s Pro Day should take place somewhere between one to two weeks after that. And the NFL Draft is April 28-30.
Pacific Northwest Sports audited 25 different mock drafts to see where the D-Back duo might go in the draft. The sources we use may vary from edition to edition but are all credible. This time we included ESPN, USA Today, NFL.com, CBS Sports, Walter Football, Pro Football Focus, The Draft Network, and more. Thirteen of the mocks went two rounds; eight of them covered through Round 3.
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