MockDraftNFL.com is Lou Pickney’s dedicated draft hub, spun out of his long-running Draft King work into a standalone site that’s laser-focused on future classes, especially the 2026 NFL Draft and beyond. You’ll find a flagship full-round mock, prospect listings by class, articles on draft strategy and NIL, and even curated lists of the best draft sites and simulators. It feels like a plugged-in analyst’s personal command center for following the entire draft cycle.

NFL Draft Buzz is built for people who want quick, structured scouting info on a ton of players without paying a subscription wall fee. The site leans into sortable position rankings, detailed player profiles, mock drafts, and even tools like a depth-chart creator, giving you a one-stop reference to scan traits, grades, and draft projections for entire classes at once. The level of prospect detail is exceptionally strong.

Pro Football Focus is the data-heavy giant of the space, grading every player on every snap and turning that into 0–100 grades, advanced metrics, and draft tools for both the NFL and FBS college football. Their draft section layers mock drafts, a full big board, position rankings, and years of charting into one ecosystem, so if you’re the kind of fan who wants numbers and film notes to agree (or clash), PFF is where you go to stress-test your own evaluations.

PFSN blends traditional written scouting with modern tools: team-by-team draft grades, multi-round mock drafts, and a free mock draft simulator you can customize and trade through for future classes like 2026. Their analysts dive into prospect fits, value, and roster context, while long-form pieces and high-volume draft coverage give you a sense that they’re tracking every pick and storyline from the Senior Bowl to final grades after the draft ends.

WalterFootball is one of the old-school institutions of draft internet, combining long-running mock drafts, scouting reports, betting picks, and fantasy content under one very opinionated umbrella. The site is known for its volume and personality (frequent updates, strong takes, and deep positional write-ups), so it works well if you like following one voice (and a small team) through mocks, game picks, and fantasy advice all in the same place.

Sharp Football Analysis, founded by Warren Sharp, is a data-driven site that treats football like a math and strategy problem, using predictive analytics to attack betting lines, game plans, and matchups. While it’s not a pure draft site, it gives serious context that can help you understand how a prospect might translate into modern NFL offenses and defenses, especially if you care about scheme fits and win-probability edges.

Sports Talk with Sam Teets is a Substack newsletter that feels like a scouting notebook made public: multi-page scouting reports, positional rankings, and regular mock drafts focused on upcoming classes such as 2026. Teets writes with a balance of fan accessibility and scout-style structure, and the feed is active enough (plus cross-connected with his other work and collaborations) that it’s a great place to see how the broader draft media landscape is thinking about certain prospects at any given moment.

Tankathon is the go-to scoreboard for fans obsessing over draft order and lottery-style standings; for the NFL, it tracks the live draft order, tiebreakers, and team records all season long. The site often pairs that order with basic team needs and mock-draft style views, so when your team is 3–12 and spiraling, Tankathon becomes the place you visit to see exactly where that misery might land you on the next draft board. Very reliable at updating the projected draft order quickly after game conclusions.

The Athletic is a subscription-based outlet known for long-form, deeply reported sports journalism, and its NFL Draft coverage fits that mold with detailed big boards, mock drafts, and film-based breakdowns from analysts like Dane Brugler. Their flagship draft guide “The Beast” is a massive, scouting-department-style document built off months of tape study, statistics, and interviews, making the site ideal if you want thoroughly researched context around prospects rather than just quick blurbs or rankings.

Drafttek leans into the “draft all the time” ethos, running big boards that stretch into the hundreds of prospects and generating team-by-team mocks with a formula-based approach. It’s particularly useful as a reference for seeing how one algorithmic system values players across positions and years, and it’s also frequently included in consensus big board projects that combine rankings from many major outlets, giving you another data point when you’re trying to gauge how high or low the market is on a specific player.