Bill Barnwell Apr 6, 2026, 06:20 AM ET Close Bill Barnwell is a senior NFL writer for ESPN.com. He analyzes football on and off the field like no one else on the planet, writing about in-season X's and O's, offseason transactions and so much more. He is the host of the Bill Barnwell Show podcast , with episodes released weekly. Barnwell joined ESPN in 2011 as a staff writer at Grantland. It's time to get weird. Every year, ESPN's thoughtful, talented analysts produce a bevy of mock drafts to preview and predict what will happen when the NFL gathers at the end of April . And then, somewhere in the middle, I sneak in with something far more ridiculous and absurd. Most mock drafts these days have a trade or two factored in. My annual mock draft? It has 32 of them. Today, I'm bringing my annual mock draft consisting entirely of trades to you. It's, to put it nicely, a thought exercise.…