NFL mock draft 2026: Grok AI predicts the entire first round
USA TODAY Sports had Grok AI predict the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft. The chatbot's mock will raise some eyebrows.
Artificial intelligence is a lot of things. Intelligent is not one of them, at least when it comes to NFL mock drafts. The countdown to the 2026 NFL Draft is on and the board is taking shape with just over two weeks to go.
Fernando Mendoza is essentially locked in as the No. 1 pick and it's widely expected that No. 2 will be Arvell Reese or David Bailey .
Unless you ask Grok, X's chatbot that appeared insistent on putting the "mock" in "mock draft. " Bailey was a noticeable absence from the first 32 picks, but that's not all. The chatbot also invented a new strategy regarding the NFL – part-time players.
Like a person who works more than one job, apparently, one team isn't enough to survive in 2026. Grok made sure that Sonny Styles , Makai Lemon and others managed to find work with multiple teams across the league. In other words, there was some good, some bad and some ugly in this experiment.
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