[NBA Draft]: 2022 Mock Draft Comparison, January (updated 1/30)

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January 30 update: Fresh 1st round mock draft from Jonathan Givony/ESPN and top 15 picks from Chad Ford/NBA Big Board–both of which include Shaedon Sharpe.

January 13 update: New picks added from Jeremy Woo/Sports Illustrated and Tankathon.com.

Happy New Year to everyone–here’s to a healthy, non-mask wearing 2022, without players in health and safety protocols or game cancellations!

A fresh round of mock drafts were released last week from Bleacher Report/Jonathan Wasserman, The Athletic/Sam Vecenie, and Bryan Kalbrosky/USA Today, so I wanted to create a new post that helped us compare and analyze all of them. Although the picks have changed a good amount since mid-to-late December, I opted to leave the 12/22 ESPN picks from Jonathan Givony until they post an updated version.

Big movers included Wisconsin’s Johnny Davis, who was amazing in a few games, most notably in a big W against Purdue, in which he went head to head with (consensus #4 pick (for the time being) and fellow top SG prospect) Jaden Ivey. Tari Eason from LSU and Keegan Murray from Iowa are also on the rise, while hype seems to have cooled off a bit on Trevor Keels and Jaden Hardy after some subpar performances. Newcomers to the 1st round, for us to keep an eye on, include Blake Wesley from Notre Dame and Jeremy Sochan from Baylor.

In case you missed my last #mockdraftcomp, I’ve added a new sortable chart showing the pick variance for the top prospects across the mock drafts, to save everyone a bit of time. And as you’ll see the overall variance has decreased quite a bit in just a month’s time. Some of the numbers are thrown off a bit by the aforementioned ESPN picks, as Johnny Davis, for example, was #16 way back, two weeks ago–a level he will most likely never go back to unless he steal laptops, borrows money from Penny Hardaway, and/or has a couple of DUIs next month.

There will be more mock drafts posted in the coming weeks, so make sure to check back for updates and follow me at @hoopsdistillery on Twitter for update notifications. If I’m missing any mocks that you feel belong alongside the ‘All-NBA level’ draft analysts I currently include, leave a comment or DM me on Twitter.

	ESPN (1/26)		NBA Big Board (1/21)		Tankathon (1/15)		SI (1/13)		The Athletic (1/6)		USA Today (1/6)		B/R (1/5)
1. ORL	Chet Holmgren	1. ORL	Jabari Smith	1. ORL	Jabari Smith	1. ORL	Jabari Smith	1. DET	Jabari Smith	1. DET	Jabari Smith	1. DET	Paolo Banchero
2. DET	Paolo Banchero	2. DET	Jaden Ivey	2. DET	Chet Holmgren	2. DET	Paolo Banchero	2. ORL	Paolo Banchero	2. ORL	Chet Holmgren	2. ORL	Jabari Smith
3. HOU	Jabari Smith	3. OKC	Paolo Banchero	3. HOU	Paolo Banchero	3. HOU	Chet Holmgren	3. HOU	Chet Holmgren	3. HOU	Paolo Banchero	3. HOU	Chet Holmgren
4. OKC	Jalen Duren	4. HOU	Chet Holmgren	4. OKC	Jaden Ivey	4. OKC	Johnny Davis	4. OKC	Jaden Ivey	4. OKC	Jaden Ivey	4. OKC	Jaden Ivey
5. SAC	Jaden Ivey	5. IND	AJ Griffin	5. IND	Bennedict Mathurin	5. NOP	Jaden Ivey	5. NOP	Johnny Davis	5. NOP	Johnny Davis	5. NOP	Johnny Davis
6. SAS	Keegan Murray	6. NOP	Kendall Brown	6. SAS	Kendall Brown	6. POR	Keegan Murray	6. POR	Bennedict Mathurin	6. POR	Bennedict Mathurin	6. POR	Jalen Duren
7. NOP	Shaedon Sharpe	7. SAS	Jalen Duren	7. NOP	Johnny Davis	7. SAS	Bennedict Mathurin	7. SAS	Jalen Duren	7. IND	Kendall Brown	7. IND	Bennedict Mathurin
8. IND	Johnny Davis	8. IND	Shaedon Sharpe	8. POR	AJ Griffin	8. IND	Kendall Brown	8. IND	Kendall Brown	8. SAS	Patrick Baldwin	8. SAS	Keegan Murray
9. WAS	TyTy Washington	9. POR	Bennedict Mathurin	9. SAC	Keegan Murray	9. SAC	Dyson Daniels	9. SAC	Patrick Baldwin	9. SAC	Jalen Duren	9. SAC	Kendall Brown
10. ATL	Bennedict Mathurin	10. NOP	Johnny Davis	10. ATL	Patrick Baldwin	10. MIN	Jalen Duren	10. MIN	AJ Griffin	10. MIN	Jaden Hardy	10. MIN	AJ Griffin
11. NYK	AJ Griffin	11. NYK	Keegan Murray	11. MIN	TyTy Washington	11. ATL	Jaden Hardy	11. ATL	TyTy Washington	11. ATL	Jeremy Sochan	11. ATL	TyTy Washington
12. POR	Ochai Agbaji	12. WAS	TyTy Washington	12. BOS	Jalen Duren	12. NYK	Patrick Baldwin	12. NYK	Dyson Daniels	12. NYK	Kennedy Chandler	12. NYK	Patrick Baldwin
13. MEM	Jean Montero	13. ATL	Blake Wesley	13. NYK	Tari Eason	13. TOR	Blake Wesley	13. TOR	Keegan Murray	13. TOR	AJ Griffin	13. TOR	Jaden Hardy
14. TOR	MarJon Beauchamp	14. TOR	Jaden Hardy	14. TOR	Kennedy Chandler	14. BOS	MarJon Beauchamp	14. BOS	Ochai Agbaji	14. BOS	Keegan Murray	14. BOS	Jean Montero
15. OKC	Patrick Baldwin	15. OKC	Jean Montero	15. OKC	Jean Montero	15. WAS	Jeremy Sochan	15. WAS	Nikola Jovic	15. WAS	TyTy Washington	15. MEM	Wendell Moore
16. MIN	Dyson Daniels			16. MEM	Jaden Hardy	16. MEM	EJ Liddell	16. MEM	Blake Wesley	16. MEM	Jean Montero	16. WAS	Kennedy Chandler
17. BOS	Jaden Hardy			17. WAS	Dyson Daniels	17. DAL	Mark Williams	17. DAL	Jean Montero	17. DAL	Nikola Jovic	17. DAL	MarJon Beauchamp
18. CHI	Trevor Keels			18. DEN	Jeremy Sochan	18. CHA	Ochai Agbaji	18. CHA	Trevor Keels	18. CHA	Harrison Ingram	18. CHA	Tari Eason
19. DEN	Kendall Brown			19. ATL	MarJon Beauchamp	19. OKC	Christian Koloko	19. OKC	MarJon Beauchamp	19. OKC	Dyson Daniels	19. OKC	Christian Braun
20. ATL	JD Davison			20. DAL	Mark Williams	20. DEN	AJ Griffin	20. DEN	Kennedy Chandler	20. DEN	Walker Kessler	20. DEN	JD Davison
21. HOU	Blake Wesley			21. CLE	Wendell Moore	21. PHI	Nikola Jovic	21. PHI	Jaden Hardy	21. PHI	MarJon Beauchamp	21. PHI	Trevor Keels
22. DAL	Nikola Jovic			22. PHI	JD Davison	22. CLE	Trevor Keels	22. CLE	Wendell Moore	22. CLE	Tari Eason	22. CLE	Harrison Ingram
23. PHI	Mark Williams			23. MIL	Nikola Jovic	23. HOU	Jean Montero	23. HOU	JD Davison	23. HOU	Wendell Moore	23. HOU	Dyson Daniels
24. CLE	EJ Liddell			24. HOU	Harrison Ingram	24. MEM	TyTy Washington	24. MEM	Tari Eason	24. MEM	Julian Champagnie	24. MEM	Nikola Jovic
25. MIL	Kennedy Chandler			25. MIA	Christian Koloko	25. MIL	JD Davison	25. MIL	Harrison Ingram	25. MIL	Hyungjung Lee	25. MIL	Blake Wesley
26. MEM	Ousmane Dieng			26. MEM	Ismael Kamagate	26. MIA	Wendell Moore	26. MIA	Mark Williams	26. MIA	Ochai Agbaji	26. MIA	Jeremy Sochan
27. MEM	Hugo Besson			27. MEM	EJ Liddell	27. CHI	Ousmane Dieng	27. CHI	Caleb Houstan	27. CHI	Roko Prkacin	27. CHI	Ochai Agbaji
28. MIA	Wendell Moore			28. CHI	Walker Kessler	28. MEM	Jaime Jacquez	28. MEM	Ousmane Dieng	28. MEM	Yannick Nzosa	28. MEM	Dereon Seabron
29. GSW	Christian Braun			29. GSW	Jabari Walker	29. OKC	Peyton Watson	29. OKC	Aminu Mohammed	29. OKC	Blake Wesley	29. OKC	Christian Koloko
30. OKC	Walker Kessler			30. OKC	Ousmane Dieng	30. GSW	Malaki Branham	30. GSW	Bryce McGowens	30. GSW	Julian Strawther	30. GSW	Bryce McGowens

2022-01-22 00:00:00	High	Low	Variance
Shaedon Sharpe	7	8	1
Chet Holmgren	1	3	2
Jabari Smith	1	3	2
Paolo Banchero	1	3	2
Jaden Ivey	2	5	3
Bennedict Mathurin	5	11	6
Patrick Baldwin	8	15	7
MarJon Beauchamp	14	21	7
Jalen Duren	4	12	8
Keegan Murray	6	14	8
Johnny Davis	4	14	10
JD Davison	13	25	12
Kendall Brown	6	19	13
Kennedy Chandler	12	25	13
Nikola Jovic	15	28	13
Wendell Moore	15	28	13
Dyson Daniels	9	23	14
Jean Montero	9	23	14
Jaden Hardy	6	21	15
Trevor Keels	7	22	15
AJ Griffin	5	20	15
TyTy Washington	9	24	15
Ochai Agbaji	12	27	15
Blake Wesley	13	29	16
Tari Eason	13	34	21

References:

NBA Big Board [Chad Ford]

Sports Illustrated [Jeremy Woo]

Tankathon

USA Today [Bryan Kalbrosky]

Bleacher Report [Jonathan Wasserman]

ESPN/Draft Express [Jonathan Givony]

The Athletic [Sam Vecenie]

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