ynotcaps
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This is one of the rare years I'm glad out FO is doing the drafting and not me (and by "rare" I mean the first time in the last 25 or so.)
With our early picks, I could see us going 5 or 6 different positions, and I'd be happy with any of them. As many have said, there are a ton of EDGEs in this draft, and there'll definitely be one worth taking at 29. But maybe Egbuka falls down there, which would also be a good pick. There are also 1 or 2 run-stuffing DTs (desperate need) who might be available there. And a couple of big, fast CBs w/ man-cover chops, too. And while it seems unlikely, it's not outside the realm of possibility that a worthwhile OT will slide down there.
That's not even counting the highly improbable but not impossible scenario that a unicorn like Jeanty or Warren falls.
Unlike our previous FOs since the end of the Casserly era, I have real faith that our guys will bring in good players that will help us immediately with our top picks, and long term, either as eventual starters or depth pieces, in the medium to longer term.
That said, a big caveat: every mock draft anybody does and any simulator anybody uses will be very, very different between now and the actual draft. We'll look back at mocks we've seen or done in Jan/Feb later and go "Man, M. Green was NEVER going to be available at 29, and why did I ever think Ersery would be a value at 61?" (Names and slots made up for effect.)
I recently went back to the beginning of the previous thread and looked at some of the mocks I and others were posting where we were trading down to 8 or even 11, taking Daniels and making serious hay with extra picks. Now we know Daniels was never going to make it past 3. Some of that was because some undervaluation of Daniels on this board, but most of it was because teams hadn't had the time to go through all his college game film and see what ultimately became very evident. Same can be said for Penix and Nix -- Nobody had all 6 QBs gone in the top 12 picks last Feb or Mar -- including the people who get paid to do this. And as those QBs rose, other players fell.
This year it probably won't be QBs who rise en masse, but maybe the EDGE run with start earlier and last longer, or maybe CBs will jump because of scarcity causing some DEs to fall. Who knows? But a TON is going to change, between combine, pro days and just scouts having more time to go deep on guys.
Best time of the year, baby!!!
With our early picks, I could see us going 5 or 6 different positions, and I'd be happy with any of them. As many have said, there are a ton of EDGEs in this draft, and there'll definitely be one worth taking at 29. But maybe Egbuka falls down there, which would also be a good pick. There are also 1 or 2 run-stuffing DTs (desperate need) who might be available there. And a couple of big, fast CBs w/ man-cover chops, too. And while it seems unlikely, it's not outside the realm of possibility that a worthwhile OT will slide down there.
That's not even counting the highly improbable but not impossible scenario that a unicorn like Jeanty or Warren falls.
Unlike our previous FOs since the end of the Casserly era, I have real faith that our guys will bring in good players that will help us immediately with our top picks, and long term, either as eventual starters or depth pieces, in the medium to longer term.
That said, a big caveat: every mock draft anybody does and any simulator anybody uses will be very, very different between now and the actual draft. We'll look back at mocks we've seen or done in Jan/Feb later and go "Man, M. Green was NEVER going to be available at 29, and why did I ever think Ersery would be a value at 61?" (Names and slots made up for effect.)
I recently went back to the beginning of the previous thread and looked at some of the mocks I and others were posting where we were trading down to 8 or even 11, taking Daniels and making serious hay with extra picks. Now we know Daniels was never going to make it past 3. Some of that was because some undervaluation of Daniels on this board, but most of it was because teams hadn't had the time to go through all his college game film and see what ultimately became very evident. Same can be said for Penix and Nix -- Nobody had all 6 QBs gone in the top 12 picks last Feb or Mar -- including the people who get paid to do this. And as those QBs rose, other players fell.
This year it probably won't be QBs who rise en masse, but maybe the EDGE run with start earlier and last longer, or maybe CBs will jump because of scarcity causing some DEs to fall. Who knows? But a TON is going to change, between combine, pro days and just scouts having more time to go deep on guys.
Best time of the year, baby!!!
