Albert Breer: It might not be a good year to have a top 5 pick

[Hawkeye0202]

Translate: If this holds, lots of teams will want to trade down

 

[gtb1943]

I agree which is why I say trade back and get more high picks.I think the sweet spot in this draft is around 10-25

 

[J-man]

unless you need a QB, Ward and Sanders will both go top 5

 

[gtb1943]

unless you need a QB, Ward and Sanders will both go top 5

Neither one of them is worth a top 5 pick and that is what he meant

 

[beware_d-ware]

Most draft classes have 3-5 blue chip players. I haven't watched tape on all the 1st round prospects yet, but so far, there's only 2 I've seen that I'd call "super-elite" blue-chippers. Travis Hunter (even if you burned all his WR tape, he'd make it as a CB), and Will Johnson.

Jeanty is knocking on that door, but is he as good of a prospect as say college Zeke or Saquon, where we were saying "once per decade" and our jaws were falling off our heads? I think he's more like a Bijan Robinson. Abdul Carter has blue-chip ability, but doesn't have the insane track record of production that say Chase Young or Aidan Hutchinson or Will Anderson had.

After those four, the talent pool I've seen gets kinda crummy. Will Campbell is a guard convert and wouldn't have even been drafted top 20 in last year's OL-fest. Jalon Walker is legitimately good at both LB and DE, and I would like to see him get used as a chess pice, but history tells us that the NFL tends to push guys like that to become full-time speed rushers. As a pure DE, I don't see him as a top 10 talent.

 

[J-man]

Neither one of them is worth a top 5 pick and that is what he meant

I don't think that will matter to the teams that need a qb. most likely they go top 5

 

[cnuball21]

Most draft classes have 3-5 blue chip players. I haven't watched tape on all the 1st round prospects yet, but so far, there's only 2 I've seen that I'd call "super-elite" blue-chippers. Travis Hunter (even if you burned all his WR tape, he'd make it as a CB), and Will Johnson.

Jeanty is knocking on that door, but is he as good of a prospect as say college Zeke or Saquon, where we were saying "once per decade" and our jaws were falling off our heads? I think he's more like a Bijan Robinson. Abdul Carter has blue-chip ability, but doesn't have the insane track record of production that say Chase Young or Aidan Hutchinson or Will Anderson had.

After those four, the talent pool I've seen gets kinda crummy. Will Campbell is a guard convert and wouldn't have even been drafted top 20 in last year's OL-fest. Jalon Walker is legitimately good at both LB and DE, and I would like to see him get used as a chess pice, but history tells us that the NFL tends to push guys like that to become full-time speed rushers. As a pure DE, I don't see him as a top 10 talent.

I’d probably go with Hunter (CB) and Will Johnson. If the injury checks out, and I think it will, I’m not sure he isn’t the best CB in the draft. I love Hunter, but Johnson has done it on the biggest stage and showed up against blue chip WR prospects last year.

After that I think you’ve got a few top 10/15 ish guys like Campbell, TMac, Carter, Pearce, Graham, Jeanty etc (never taking a RB that early).

I could see us picking in the 6-8 range where a very good player will fall at a money position…but if the team feels like our board is littered with similar grades certainly not opposed to trading back a few spots trying to add another 3rd.

 

[rambo2]

Translate: If this holds, lots of teams will want to trade down

I'll disagree. Travis Hunter, Abdul Carter, Tet McMillan, and Ashton Jeanty.

 

[morat1959]

Trade back and try to pick up a high pick in the 2026 draft. This thing can’t be fixed in one season. The Manning kid is probably a pipe dream but who knows.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

I don't think that will matter to the teams that need a qb. most likely they go top 5

I agree .........worthy or not, some team(s) are going to overdraft both. Deion just repeated that Shedure will not play for certain teams. He mentioned his preference is a team that has shown patience and stability in the position. ( Browns and Panthers LOL)

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Trade back and try to pick up a high pick in the 2026 draft. This thing can’t be fixed in one season. The Manning kid is probably a pipe dream but who knows.

Maybe but this is the draft ( especially if we get top 5 ) to stack an extra 2026 1st with a trade-down like you said

 

[gtb1943]

I don't think that will matter to the teams that need a qb. most likely they go top 5

absolutely agree; the one thing that is given about any draft now is that QBs will be picked way higher than they deserve

 

[gtb1943]

This years draft has no generational talent. But then that is rare anyway.
Honestly, I think there is maybe four or five that in this draft deserve to go in the top 10
Everyone seems to froth about Jeanty but something about him just does not thrill me; probably just me
Hunter SEEMS to be the top CB but I just do not think he is worth the top pick or three.
I really do not see him as WR at the next level
My standard for top five is that each one should be expected to start and be at pro bowl level by the end of that first year
Just find it hard to imagine anyone in this draft at that level

 

[Proof]

Most draft classes have 3-5 blue chip players. I haven't watched tape on all the 1st round prospects yet, but so far, there's only 2 I've seen that I'd call "super-elite" blue-chippers. Travis Hunter (even if you burned all his WR tape, he'd make it as a CB), and Will Johnson.

Jeanty is knocking on that door, but is he as good of a prospect as say college Zeke or Saquon, where we were saying "once per decade" and our jaws were falling off our heads? I think he's more like a Bijan Robinson. Abdul Carter has blue-chip ability, but doesn't have the insane track record of production that say Chase Young or Aidan Hutchinson or Will Anderson had.

After those four, the talent pool I've seen gets kinda crummy. Will Campbell is a guard convert and wouldn't have even been drafted top 20 in last year's OL-fest. Jalon Walker is legitimately good at both LB and DE, and I would like to see him get used as a chess pice, but history tells us that the NFL tends to push guys like that to become full-time speed rushers. As a pure DE, I don't see him as a top 10 talent.

mason graham?