Two mocks drafts released on Thursday have former Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson going No. 10 overall to the Buffalo Bills, while his former star wide receiver, Mike Williams, is projected at No. 5 in Mel Kiper’s mock draft on ESPN and No. 13 by CBSsports.com’s Dane Brugler.

Watson has been the main conversation for a lot of the so-called mock draft experts since he threw for 420 yards and three touchdowns in leading Clemson to a 35-31 victory over Alabama in the College Football Playoff Championship Game on Jan. 9.

Watson, who guided the national champions to a 14-1 record, has found himself as high as No. 3 in some mock drafts and as low as the mid-second round in others. Kiper admitted in a teleconference call with the media on Thursday that though he has Watson going No. 10 to Buffalo, he still rated the Clemson quarterback as the No. 36 overall player on his board.

Why is there such a large discrepancy with Watson?

“I think when you look right now at Deshaun it is trying to find the team,” Kiper said. “Like I said, you could have gone with the Jets (at No. 6). I can see that because they have a coach that has to win. I could have very easily put him at Cleveland at No. 12.

“To put him up there at one, two or three based on the fact he was a quarterback, I thought, was a second-rounder going into the latter portion of the season. To move him up that far, I could not do it. I understand there might be somebody out there that puts him there. I have him going No. 10. I thought was a good spot going to Buffalo.”

Kiper only has North Carolina’s Mitch Trubisky going higher than Watson in his draft. He has Trubisky, who had just 13 career starts at UNC, going No. 2 overall to San Francisco.

Brugler also has Trubisky at No. 2 and then DeShone Kizer of Notre Dame at No. 3 to Chicago.

Watson, who was listed by ESPN’s panel of experts as the top player in college football this past year, finished the year completing 388-of-579 passes for 4,593 yards and 41 touchdowns with 17 interceptions. He ranked second in the nation in completions, third in passing yards and third in touchdown passes. His 41 touchdown passes set an ACC record.

Watson also led the nation in passing yards in games against ranked teams with 2,479. He led in touchdown passes against ranked teams with 18, and led the nation in passing yards and touchdown passes against teams that finished the season with a winning record.

Watson won the Davey O’Brien and Manning Awards for a second straight year as the nation’s best quarterback, while throwing for 3,925 yards and 30 touchdowns against teams with winning records. In the ACC Championship game against Virginia Tech and College Football Playoff wins over Ohio State and Alabama he threw for 967 yards and seven touchdowns.

“Could he go (higher)? Hey, Vince Young had that great bump from the national championship game and he ended up going No. 3,” Kiper said. “I’m not going to say it is out of the question, but that would be like a quantum leap for me to go from say the early to mid-second all the way to one, two or three, but it has happened before though.

“I have him at ten. So if you have him at ten on January 19, then come late April, I guess you could have him up that high.”

Williams is already high on everyone’s board. Kiper had him going No. 5 to Tennessee in his draft and though Brugler had him going No. 13 to Arizona, Williams was still the first wide receiver taken off his board.

“He fits the mold of what you see in this league now – the big Julio Jones type receivers,” Kiper said. “The Alshon Jeffery, the guys who can go and highpoint the ball and are a mismatch against the smaller corners.

“I think you saw what he could do in the national championship game. He was such a key element there.”

Williams caught eight passes for 94 yards in the national championship game, including a 26-yard reception on the Tigers’ next to last scoring drive, where he went up and took the ball away from an Alabama defender, and then a 24-yard completion on the game-winning drive, when he again highpointed a Watson pass on the near sideline that got the Tigers going again.

“Throw it up and he will go get it,” Kiper said. “He will be like a power forward. That’s what Williams can do.”

Williams led the Tigers with 98 catches for 1,361 yards and 11 touchdowns.

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