Billy Goat

The moving up/down talk always goes crazy the closer it gets to the draft because it's the most interesting thing to talk about for the media heads. Once it gets to draft night none of these moves end up happening. I'd say the odds are still heavily in favour of us picking at 8.

All depends on who they trade with. If it was with the Bears as is speculated from Joe Person then it's only moving down two spots, so you probably would only get their 3rd rounder and would likely have to give them some day 3 picks. Or swap 1st/2nd rounders and give them a day 3 pick. I don't think they're going to get a second rounder unless they trade into the lower half of the 1st round, but it seems like most of the movement is from teams around them. In that case the trades are likely going to be mediocre.

As I said in another thread, you can pretty much guarantee they'll package some picks to move back up if they move down. So they won't be drafting more guys, just drafting more of the top 100 talent. We will probably get a late second rounder to move down in the first and then package a 3rd and one of the 4ths to move back into the end of the 2nd round to have three 2nd round picks.

With all due respect to Verge and her sources, there's too many people (those in the media who would actually have a clue) saying Walker is the guy for me to believe any talk of Williams being the preferred choice. Maybe if their absolute goal is to trade down then I can buy it, but I don't think that is in any way linked to creating a smokescreen around Walker. Nobody in the top 8 is going to draft Williams so why create smoke around Walker to blow them off the scent? My personal reading of the situation surrounding our first pick would be as follows Option 1 - Draft someone not expected to fall (Graham) Option 2 - Receive a good deal to trade down Option 3 - Jalon Walker

I think the only thing that throws a spanner in the works is if Graham falls to us, which seems a distinct possibility at this point.

I think if they trade down there's a high chance they trade back up into the second or third. That's why I'm not really fussed about trying to trade down and get more picks because they'll most likely be used to move around on day 2.

They're probably looking at his RAS scores every day and salivating. The nightmare early pick.

You can't be serious about improving the defense and then offer a guy a contract who just had his worst season ever. I hope they get a deal sorted with Blackmon.

They have more control over what they do in free agency. The draft can throw up any number of outcomes in terms of what position gets drafted the most/earliest. If lots of DL come off the board between 8 and 57 they leave themselves needing to use assets to trade up or missing out on all the good prospects.

What's his RAS score? This isn't another RAS pick, is it?

The roster is in desperate need of another WR that's for sure, although I could still see them adding one in free agency so I'm not sold on them drafting one early.

1 year $2.78m fully guaranteed.

I think i would still go Graham if he's there, second preference being the top WR and after that trade down. Im not convinced by any of the pass rushers (the ones that will be left on the board) to be drafting them at 8.

5 in the first 4 games and then 2 for the rest of the year.

3 years $51m for Moehrig.

Other teams are trying to get in on the deal according to Dianna Russini. Not a good sign. They probably jumped the gun and he'll end up elsewhere.

It's a lot, but I suppose at some point we were going to have to start paying our best players instead of trading them away for nothing.

I feel like this Horn situation is going the same way as Burns, meaning a player expecting top of the market money when they're not really worth it. They might be better off using that money on pass rushers in FA and use 8 to draft a CB.

Probably came back just to prove David Newton is a liar who likes to creep on players in the changing room.

Ranked 63rd in pressures, with 30 for the season. Seems to be solid in defending the run but we need pressure from our OLB.

Or they'll be looking at the cap in future years and work something out? I mean it wouldn't be hard to give him a big signing bonus to lower the cap hit in the first year.

Great tweet. Not only throwing shade on Newton's weird behaviour but also exposing him for the hack he is by discrediting his story (Corbett wanting no competition).

People complain about most of the defense being so bad they shouldn't be in the league and then want to put all the blame on the DC. IIRC the defense was statistically not that bad in 2023? I would let him have another crack at it with an improved roster on that side if the ball.

If this was his first season I'd be thinking top 15 bare minimum. I still have reservations because of what's come before this 9 game stretch, but I certainly go into next season with much more optimism. Put it this way, after the benching I was thinking about the QB prospects in the 2025 draft. Now I wouldn't take any of them over Bryce.