Lou Pickney

Mock Draft NFL · DKDB

#4 Most Accurate Analyst

5-Year Avg (HR)

43.4/64

Best Year

49/64 (2021)

2026 Prediction

April 23 · Draft Day

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Lou Pickney is a veteran NFL Draft analyst and the creator of Mock Draft NFL (mockdraftnfl.com) and DKDB (draftking.com), a human-curated NFL mock draft database. He is the #4 most accurate NFL mock draft analyst over the past five years (2021–2025), according to The Huddle Report's 5-Year King of the Hill rankings ↗. He averages 43.4 out of 64 points per year.

Pickney publishes one final mock draft per year, typically on the day before or morning of the draft. His best season was 49 points in 2021, and his consistent accuracy across five years places him among the top handful of 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 64 per year (32 picks × 2 pts).

Why do these scores differ?

The Huddle Report ↗ scores are official numbers from thehuddlereport.com, where analysts submit their mocks directly. The “Calculated” scores are what we compute from each analyst’s publicly posted online mock draft. Analysts may submit a different mock to the Huddle Report than what they publish online, leading to score differences.

2021 ↗

HR Official

of 64 pts

77%

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2022 ↗

HR Official

of 64 pts

64%

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2023 ↗

HR Official