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The RotoUnderworld community will be partaking in a series of 12-team, five-round rookie mock drafts, running through the spring and summer. The mock drafters will be comprised of PlayerProfiler writers/analysts, our friends in the Patreon community, and our good friends over at The Breakout Finder. Today features 2022 Rookie Mock Recap #4, a Superflex format.

Bailey Zappe has the highest ceiling in this QB draft class. He threw for nearly 6,000 yards and 62 touchdowns last season. That is just absurd. Especially in SuperFlex, I see no argument as to why he isn’t at least worth a late-round flier. Sure he played for Western Kentucky. Sure he didn’t really impress at the Senior Bowl. But those two things are not disqualifying. Tim Tebow won a Heisman and, for all intents and purposes, didn’t produce at the NFL level. Zappe will be an interesting player to watch this year.

PlayerProfiler/RotoUnderworld Head Game Analyst and NFL Draft Analyst Cody Carpentier is back for more; now breaking down his NFL Mock Draft 4.0 in a short team-by-team series. Next up is the Miami Dolphins. If you want to see your favorite team, go to Twitter @CarpentierNFL and leave Cody a comment on what team you want to see broken down next.

John Metchie is the least talked about wide receiver in Alabama’s receiver room over the last three seasons. Before Jaylen Waddle’s ankle injury against Tennessee, Metchie produced WITH Waddle, Devonta Smith, and Najee Harris on the field. Look for New England to use “earlier” draft capital on a wide receiver. If it’s not Round 1 or Free Agency, Metchie or Skyy Moore would be great picks in Round 3.

C.J. Verdell blew up early on in his college career. He went for over 1,000 rushing yards in each of his redshirt freshman and redshirt sophomore seasons. He missed some games while dealing with injuries as an upperclassman in 2020 and 2021. But his 28.8-percent per-game Dominator Rating as a redshirt senior last season was actually the highest of his career.

C.J. Verdell was a productive college player who was fraudulently propped up as a future NFL stud by over-eager devy enthusiasts. He’s probably a JAG. Hoping he becomes Jay Ajayi or Miles Sanders is misguided, given that those guys aren’t really that good either. A JAG with volume is good for fantasy, but it’s not very predictable (at least pre-draft). Look elsewhere in your rookie draft.

PlayerProfiler/RotoUnderworld Head Game Analyst and NFL Draft Analyst Cody Carpentier is back for more; now breaking down his NFL Mock Draft 4.0 in a short team-by-team series. Next up is the Miami Dolphins. If you want to see your favorite team, go to Twitter @CarpentierNFL and leave Cody a comment on what team you want to see broken down next.

The likely departures of free-agent defensive linemen Jerry Hughes ($10,750,000), Mario Addison ($10,150,000), and Vernon Butler($7,500,000) all but puts the writing on the wall for Buffalo to not only add George Karlaftis in Round 1, but to double back and take the 6-6 320-pound, sixth-year senior John Ridgeway late in the sixth round.

Oklahoma State’s Jaylen Warren is the next subject in a series in which I evaluate 2022 rookie running backs solely on their ability to run the ball. Where he really shined was in the open field. He turned an 81st-percentile rate of his chunk runs into breakaways of 20+ yards. His career 38.0-percent Breakaway Conversion Rate is on par with the college rates of guys like Kenny Gainwell, C.J. Spiller, and Joe Mixon.

Jaylen Warren simply deserves more hype. He’s by no means a perfect prospect. But he’s a rocked up dude at sub-5-9 and 215-pounds. He was productive at three different college programs. And he was as efficient a college runner as some of your favorite sleeper runners of the past few years. Seeing as he got a Combine invite, the NFL is at least tentatively interested. In the late rounds of your rookie draft, you should be too.

Fresno State’s Ronnie Rivers is the next subject in a series in which I evaluate 2022 rookie running backs solely on their ability to run the ball. According to my running back model’s composite Rushing Efficiency Score (which accounts for all the non-BAE metrics covered here, in addition to overall team quality, offensive line play, strength of opponent, and rushing volume), he earns a 44.9 out of 100.

A five-year contributor at Fresno State, Ronnie Rivers is neck-and-neck with Alabama’s Brian Robinson as perhaps the most super of all the seniors in this year’s running back class. He had a good career in a mediocre conference. But that resumé is a dime a dozen among NFL players. He is not worth a selection in rookie drafts, and is unlikely to ever be fantasy relevant.

Ohio State’s Master Teague is a lot like Georgia’s Zamir White. Both have workhorse size. Neither of them catch a lot of passes. And they were both highly-touted high school recruits who had some bad injury luck and never were able to separate themselves from talented teammates at powerhouse programs. In Teague’s case, those teammates averaged a collective 3.84-star rating coming out of high school.

I haven’t seen many people out there hyping up Master Teague, and for good reason. It’s unfortunate that injuries (he tore an Achilles in college and lost his senior year of high school to an ankle injury) robbed us of a guy who could potentially have been a beast. But for the sake of your dynasty teams, there’s no longer much of an argument for taking him seriously as a future fantasy contributor.

PlayerProfiler/RotoUnderworld Head Game Analyst and NFL Draft Analyst Cody Carpentier is back for more; now breaking down his NFL Mock Draft 4.0 in a short team-by-team series. Next up is the Miami Dolphins. If you want to see your favorite team, go to Twitter @CarpentierNFL and leave Cody a comment on what team you want to see broken down next.

My favorite running back landing spot in 2022; Kyren Williams bringing his Austin Ekeler body type to South Beach. At a projected 195 to 200-pounds, he fits the non-typical NFL RB mold. Think Aaron Jones, Myles Gaskin, Christian McCaffrey, and Austin Ekeler. If he runs the 40-yard dash in the 4.40-4.50 range, his draft stock will only jump up more and more.

Zamir White was a 5-star high school recruit with a bunch of hype coming into the start of his college career at Georgia in 2018. After an injury forced him to miss his entire true freshman season, he didn’t quite live up to the lofty expectations that his pedigree saddled him with.

White might be an actively good short-yardage runner. But I think that’s where the extent of his positive potential impact as a professional lies. It’s entirely possible that a team looks at the “G” on his red helmet, sees a 5-star recruiting profile in the rearview, and decides he’s worth a role somewhere à la T.J. Yeldon or Karlos Williams, but I’m not the one to waterlog my dynasty rosters with draft capital-soaked sponge backs who are otherwise void of redeeming qualities.

PlayerProfiler/RotoUnderworld Head Game Analyst and NFL Draft Analyst Cody Carpentier is back for more; now breaking down his NFL Mock Draft 4.0 in a short team-by-team series. Next up is the Jacksonville Jaguars. If you want to see your favorite team, go to Twitter @CarpentierNFL and leave Cody a comment on what team you want to see broken down next.

Evan Neal he best player in the 2022 NFL Draft. And from a talent perspective, there are only two guys that can argue that (Kayvon Thibodeaux, and Kyle Hamilton). Neal played both right and left tackle at Alabama and showed the smooth transition between the two, a rare trait in Lineman. When a video surfaced in the summer of 2021 of Neal doing a 48-inch split box jump, it became apparent that the “Future Top 10 Pick” needed to be looked at closer. During his Junior seasons, he allowed just two sacks on 1,073 total snaps.