Jared Smola
Jared Smola is the Lead Analyst at Draft Sharks, where he has been providing fantasy football analysis since 2007. He is the #3 most accurate NFL mock draft analyst over the past five years (2022–2026), according to The Huddle Report's 5-Year King of the Hill rankings ↗. He averages 42.8 out of 96 points per year.
Smola publishes one final mock draft per year, typically on the day before the draft. His fantasy football background gives him a unique lens on player evaluation, and his consistency over 5 years — including a career-best 49 points in 2025 — places him among the elite mock draft analysts tracked by the Huddle Report.
Year-by-Year Accuracy
Scoring: 1 pt for player placed in Round 1, +2 pts for player-team match. Maximum possible score is 96 per year (32 picks × 3 pts).
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Jared Smola Draft Sharks Mock Draft Accuracy
Jared Smola of Draft Sharks ranks #3 among all tracked mock draft analysts over the 2022–2026 period. His approach blends fantasy football roster analysis with traditional draft evaluation — a perspective that helps him identify value picks and team-need matches that pure draft analysts sometimes miss. His year-by-year breakdown pages show exactly which picks powered his consistently strong scores on the accuracy leaderboard.