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If we come out of the draft with Sewell or Slater, I’ll be super excited. Think Darnold can do fairly well behind a good O-Line and our RB/WRs

Between Pitts, Slater and Sewell, we will get a fantastic prospect. Going to hope QBs at every pick before ours. Should be a really exciting draft. Bonus: we don’t have to worry about drafting Mac Jones!!!

I saw that Sewell had the infamous 33 arms everyone freaks out about. I personally don’t care in his case, but will it make him drop a few more spots to us?

Hard no to Mond. A 45 game starter shouldn’t have that many issues. The upside we see based on tools etc. in fairly inexperienced QBs doesn’t apply. We know who he is at this point.

100% agree with this. He has started 45 games!!! He should not be this up and down at this point. If he only had one season as a starter, I could see going for his upside based on his arm etc. But he has proven who he is at this point.

I know it is very optimistic, but as of now, I feel Pitts to Atl and Chase to Bengals makes the most sense. Dolphins desperately needs weapons for Tua, so WR also makes sense. Detroit is a wild card, no doubt.

Haha, yeah I don’t know how to change the topic, but it sure was a typo

I feel like the draft is starting to turn our way in terms of the extreme performances we are seeing from Pitts and the WR group. Right now I see us getting a QB (Fields or Lance) or Sewell at 8, which would be an absolute home run

What a great signing this have turned out to be. I was not impressed when it happened, but happy that I was completely wrong.

After the initial surprise, I’ve come around on this one. Mac seems like a very good fit for Shanahan. So I can buy that. I don’t see a defensive player worth the 4th pick, so if I was the Falcons I would go with Pitts, that would elevate Ryan for the next couple of years. Too early to go for a rookie QB for them, Ryan has at least 3-5 years less.

Haha, I’ve had the same thing happen to me, Jalen in the 2nd round. I’ve always though he was a 1st round guy, but maybe not.

Don’t like Mond at all, only seen a few games but he is all over the place. If he was a starter for only one season, I could see him as having upside, but he has started 45 games, he is who he is, and that is not worth wasting a 2-3 rounder on. This is Will Grier all over again. One QB I could see taking a chance on in round 3 or later is David Mills from Stanford. High upside with limited play time due to injuries, looked awesome on his pro day.

Assuming we get a QB with the first pick without losing our 2nd rounder, what are the top LT options for us? I like the athleticism of James Hudson and D’Ante Smith, they feel like high upside guys that in the mold of Saints Terron Armstead (he also needed some development when drafted).

This would make our d-line fantastic. Question is how much he wants.

This years draft looks very strong for LT, but very weak for DTs. I loved the Brown pick last year and believe we can get a starter LT in the 2nd round this year. Also, for all the Wirfs live, he’s a RT.

I don’t think the 40 time is a good indicator of being an athlete. Romo was great at improvising when things broke down, and so are most of the folks on your list. The question is, have we seen Mac do it?

Did anyone see him at LT for the Cowboys last year? How did he look? Not expecting much, but descent is not a bad place to start. But I have no idea how he looked? Below is from panthers.com “That leaves left tackle, and while Erving has also bounced around himself, he's hoping that's where he could find a home. The former first-round pick of the Browns has played all five line positions in the NFL, but filled in at left tackle in Dallas last year when injuries hit. It brought him back to his days at Florida State, but he's also been around long enough to know things can change in an instant. "Yeah, you know nobody gives you anything in this league, that's first things first," Erving said when he arrived last week. "But they wanted me to come in here and compete to play left tackle. That's something I've been striving for and wanting to do for a long time in my career. I've bounced around, played a lot of different things, and it's taught me a lot of lessons, but being able to come back and play the position I started at would be just a great blessing.”

The “he has grit and moxie daring to throw on his pro day” comments are hilarious. “He was brave enough to show his deep ball is weak, what an awesome competitor he is”. I don’t understand the notion that he is better/faster at processing the game than the other QBs. Sark set him up with great first reads most of the time. Yes he executed well, but saying he process better than the other QBs is just pure speculation. There is no evidence whatsoever. Also, how can he not be in better shape after spending years in the Alabama program? Huge red flag in terms of his commitment to trying to be the best.

Like him or not, but how good of a player Orlovsky was as a player has no impact on his quality as an analyst, that’s just weak. As for Lance, he has all the physical attributes you want, and the offense he was in puts a lot on the QB, from calling protections, changing plays, snaps under center etc. Sure, he has only done it for one year, but most other QBs that have started for 2-3 years have done none of that. The leg thing is hilarious, if that is Orlovsky’s big concern, I’m not very concerned. Again, just one year as a starter in a lower division is not great, but he did a lot in that one year.

I can’t get over the fact that he looks pudgy and out of shape. It not the end all be all, but it really bothers me. and spare me the Brady comparisons, he’s a one in a million player

Thanks for sharing the number comparison. I think I just look at the 18 ppg and wish we had that with one of our bigs on an ongoing basis. We are strong at both guards spots and SF, but PF and C is holding us back. Not sure what else we could find to improve.

As some other people have said as well. He is innocent until proven otherwise. But it is very concerning and he’s pretty much untouchable until this is resolved. And I don’t think it will get resolved before the draft.

Trade suggestion from the Athletic. I like it myself. I know he’s young, but I’m constantly underwhelmed by PJ. John Collins to the Charlotte Hornets Also: Charlotte sends its 2021 first-round pick (top-4 protected) to Atlanta Here we go Hornets! Charlotte adds a top-notch young big man to play the rim-running role next to LaMelo Ball, one they can comfortably sign this offseason given they’ll have massive cap room and the market isn’t exactly flooded with talent. In fact, Collins’ low cap hold is a real boon here, as Charlotte should have $20 million in room even with Collins’ number on the books before they go over the cap to re-sign him. That should be enough for a half-decent center to round this group out. A perimeter quarter of Ball-Rozier-Hayward-Collins is primed to do some serious damage offensively, and that’s worth surrendering a first-round pick likely to be in the mid-teens, plus Graham and P.J. Washington. Graham represented a thorny issue for Charlotte with his restricted free agency coming up, but will be welcomed with open arms by an Atlanta team desperate for improved backup point guard play. The Hawks also have ample room below the tax to retain Graham in free agency, and his long-range shooting should allow him to play in two-guard lineups next to Trae Young. Meanwhile, Washington fills Collins’ role for the next two seasons at a much more affordable price, important given that the Hawks were flinching at paying a potential max deal for Collins. He’s not a great defender and not the rim-runner that Collins is, but can play three positions and offers much more salary flexibility going forward.