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There are too many defensive players left on the board. Somebody remove Sean McDermott from the draft room.

Never judge picks too early but Nix feels like the definition of a panic pick here. Like Paxton Lynch where he is immediately a bust kind of bad.

They showed college highlights of him and he just looks so small out there. And that's playing next to college players. He'll look like a make a wish kid in the NFL.

11 picks in a row with no defensive players. The previous record was 7. That's where the league is now.

Don't tip picks. It's such a simple rule to follow. Just don't do it.

I'm in the minority opinion on him. I see possibly a really good WR2. I don't see a WR1. Of course if we take him I'll get myself excited about the traits, just not the direction I would go.

I'm hoping Brian Thomas Jr gets drafted soon. I have a bad feeling that Beane will trade up for him if he drops far enough, and that's the one WR move I would be disappointed with.

Signing Kirk Cousins goes down as the greatest smokescreen of all time, I guess?

Adam Schefter is tipping picks live on ESPN. What a loser.

I guess you can pay a QB and two WRs.

I'm not dismissing the other issues. I'm accepting that constant investment at the same positions, to the detriment of the WR room, has not been a successful strategy. Draft a pass rusher at 28, it won't make a difference in the playoffs. You know it and I know it. Adding a WR will make a difference.

Here's the outcome if that happens - in one year we'll play the Chiefs in the divisional round. Chop Robinson or Cooper DeJean or whoever else will be invisible as the Chiefs casually move the ball up and down the field at will. Josh Allen will stand on his head and do backflips to keep us in the game but we'll ultimately fall short because no one else on offense cared to make a play. People will say "why can't Josh Allen beat Mahomes?" McDermott will have a presser that week talking about how hard it is to win and how close we are. Next year around draft time the usual suspects will say "we can't focus only on WRs, we have too many needs." Rinse and repeat. If you don't know for a fact that this would be the outcome of picking a non-WR with our first pick, you're lying to yourself.

Original post is updated with all the rumors from the past few days.

That's the sweet spot for Odunze if he falls. Gotta get in front of the Jets if we want him. Our 2nd this year plus our 1st next year should get it done.

My thought process all along has been using the 2025 2nd we got in the Diggs trade to move up into the low 50s. I think that would be enough to get it done. The idea being that you use the pick we got for a WR to draft his replacement. There are like 7 WRs that are worth being picked between 28 and 55. I want two of them.

This has been my best case scenario all along. Trade back with Washington since they desperately need a LT, in exchange get one of their 3rds. Then double dip at WR in the 2nd, trading up from #60 if necessary to make sure we get our guy. Trade could look something like this to match the draft value chart: Washington receives: #28 #128 #144 Buffalo receives: #36 #67 Come away with something like Legette & Franklin, and still have a high 3rd round pick plus a full complement of day three picks to fill out the roster.

It isn't just his mocks. His hot press rumors consistently come true. Off the top of my head one example I can think of is Jermaine Johnson. He was commonly mocked in the top 10 by most people, at worst top 15. The day before or of the draft Charlie Campbell reported Johnson was likely to slide to the bottom of the 1st round because of major character concerns. Nobody else was reporting this. Lo and behold he slid to #26.

Charlie Campbell has been reporting for a while now that the Jets pick is down to Bowers or Odunze. I really don't understand the amount of pushback I get on his reports. Is it just because Walter Football as a website kind of sucks? Because I get that, but his track record is his track record.

https://walterfootball.com/nfl-hot-press-2024-nfl-draft-week-rumors-thursday.php