Jabril Cox is probably my #1 target in the 2nd right now. I think our defense would look so much better with even average LB play (Jaylon and LVE burned us SO often last year), and Cox is ready to start immediately. He's pretty much a zero-risk player in my book. As far as improving our team, I think he's your best bang for the buck.-are you worried about his lack of instincts in the run game? Right now is is just a strong, coverage linebacker. 44 is too rich for me.
Jalen Phillips is a top 15 player in this class if he had a clean bill of health, but we have gambled on a billion second rounders this past decade and the issues that caused them to fall have showed up every single time. I'm just tired of dealing with it.-I would let someone else take the chance.
McNeil is a really interesting height-weight-speed prospect at a position we badly need. I'm willing to flip that coin.-there is very little chance the team takes a 2 down player this high. He has some rush abilities, but probably not enough for them to use a top 50 pick om him.
Tyson Campbell is another size-speed freak in a league where size and speed plays for CBs. I'll take that chance.-Highly overrated prospect. Has all the physical traits, but he was the corner teams were attacking not Stokes. Heard he gave up more yards against Bama then Stokes did all season.
Eichenberg is a guy I see going round 1, another zero-risk starter in a league that's starved for starting tackles. If he somehow does make it to #44 it would be unbelievable.-he reminds me of Marc Columbo, he see him being a fit in our zone scheme, much better in a power man schem.
Richie Grant seems like a good prospect as a box safety and a bad prospect as a deep safety. In the box, he's a very physical tackler and is athletic enough to cover slot receivers in man. At free safety, he just doesn't seem to "see" space and predict plays developing like the NFL's best safeties do, and his aggressiveness gets him into trouble as the last line of defense. Probably worth a 2nd for a team who wants a ready-to-go hammer at SS, but I'd like to give Donovan Wilson a shot there, and Grant just doesn't have it as a FS.-I haven't seen one media scout say he projects as a box, strong safety. He is one of the best single, high free safeties in the class and a lock for a top 50 pick. He may even be the #1 safety in the entire draft.
Moehrig looks like a CB playing FS: fast, fluid, attacks the ball. I don't see him as having great anticipation, a lot of receiver breaks seem to catch him by surprise. He reminds me a ton of Jesse Bates from Wake Forest, and I didn't like Bates' tape, but he has proved me wrong and been a total stud for the Bengals. I will go against my gut here and predict that Moehrig will succeed too.-Bates is a good comparison, like him, Moehrig struggles as a tackler, but is a good coverage player with range.
Ar'Darius Washington will get a million Antoine Winfield Jr. and Honey Badger comps as a super-small gamer at safety, but both of those guys had great speed and crazy smarts to boot. Washington is very good at diagnosing plays too, but he's not Mathieu good, and I really want to see his 40 time because he'll have very little margin of error for giving up steps.