Assuming MHJ is gone and we pick top 5, would you go LT or trade down? Braxton has proven himself to be a very capable tackle so I’d kind of be less enthused about spending a top pick on him. Maybe grab Kool Aid McKinstry and resign JJ would be the play.
Scouts and talent assessment sites say there are 5 elite ratings in this draft. Williams, Maye, MHJ, Olu, and Bowers. They rate as high as Jalen Carter.
As much as I may appreciate Jones and Kmet. You take elite talent when it’s there. Kmets contract makes him very tradeable if Bowers is there with our second pick and we should consider it. The floor for him is probably Kmet as he is today, the ceiling is Kelce.
No defensive player rates as high as those 5 and this is a weak class for DLine overall. Most of the talent wouldn’t have made the first round last year. So you would be drafting strictly for need, and if that’s the case, trade back and do it.
Not a deep draft it looks like (years from now we may say different, you never know) but as it stands if you are in a position to grab two of those 5 elite talents you do exactly that. Don’t overthink it.
You mean the Jalen Carter we shoulda woulda coulda drafted?