MiracleAtRich1393

Shakir is a speed slot, Samuel is not a pure outside WR, we don't have a bona fide X or Z. One pick X, one pick Z. Pretty simple. Rookie 1 starts at X over Hollins & Shorter, Rookie 2 shares snaps at Z with Samuel and some Shakir. Unless they think they can get a cheap-ish vet plug in at either X or Z post June 1 🤷‍♂️ Shorter should have been a priority FA last year not a 5th round pick. He's eminently replaceable, good practice squad option. Hollins is here for special teams unless Shorter beats him out

For sure. But you can learn from history. It doesn't typically repeat itself, but it often rhymes

2022 draft the move definitely would have been to trade back and take two day 2 swings at CB rather than trade up and force it for Elam (and still take Benford in 6th!) Could have gone Cam Taylor Britt with the trade back 2nd rounder, kept the 4th and taken Tariq Woolen, and taken Benford as a CB with potential to move over to safety. We'd be rich in CB's right now... This is about as loaded of a WR draft as that draft was at CB, wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to trade back a little and take two on day 2 and another sleeper value on day 3 (Jalen Coker type)

Until we draft Legette & Polk at 33 & 39 LFGGGGGGGGGG

This certainly qualifies as master strategy! Or if CAR wants to get back into the first round, could go #28, MN 2025 2nd, #60, and #144 for #33, #39, and #101. That's almost exactly even on the Rich Hill chart if you consider MN 2025 2nd is worth a mid-third this year. Basically just turns Diggs & Bates into a total of 62 draft slots in exchange for moving 5 slots down for your first pick. Giving KC and Baltimore first crack at receivers we might want makes me a bit queasy though even if I might like that trade in a vacuum Let's get two!

I wouldn't haaaaate it because I think there's a lot of untapped upside potential and I want a big bodied physical receiver with great hands for January home games. But I would also want to see them add a speed element early as well then. And people in the know seem to think he's best used as a big slot, and we took a big slot last year in Kincaid so... If he can play X better than Gabe and we use added capital to trade back up in R2 for a speedier Z with route running chops I'm good with it

I thought I saw him run some routes at the senior bowl that suggested he could be a quality outside downfield receiver, maybe his college coordinator didn't put him in a position to do so?

FML Are you sure that wasn't about Burton? Not saying you're wrong just saying can't remember hearing anything like that about McMillan

Legette R1 + Polk R2 LFG

Draft Legette at 28 and you have your height/weight/speed guy for the next five years, then use MN 2nd rounder to move up from 60 for Polk and you have a jack of all trades guy with a high floor. Both have great hands, both have dawg mentalities, both give you something you're missing. Set at WR for two years, go on a spending spree next year for high impact guys at other premium positions (like DE), then round out the rest of the roster with solid day 3 guys at S, RB, LB, IOL depth, etc.

I agree, that is a pretty funny superstition

Leonard Floyd?

seems like overkill but YOLO!

Can I interest them in Minnesota's 2nd rounder next year?

I'd do DK for a second rounder in a heartbeat but why would Seattle take a $36mil dead cap hit this year for a 2nd rounder? Are they looking to offload him?

No wonder Beane was so annoyed we didn't get that 3rd round comp pick

This is a good point. How did he look next to Jayden Reed when they shared the field in the same system? I liked Reed a lot coming out last year and he has had a nice early return

You listed a lot of elite TEs for those other teams (fairly I might add) but people often overlook Gronk as a weapon for NE, a probable first ballot HOF game changing weapon in his own right!

IMO needs to be QB, pass rusher, pass catcher. Mahomes/Chris Jones/Kelce (plus Hill for one SB) Stafford/Donald/Von/Kupp (and OBJ played like one for half the super bowl) Guys that warp the field and command attention. Do things that are unstoppable. Had Josh/Von/Diggs until Von went down in '22. Kincaid doesn't strike fear into the defense (yet, and may never be), Oliver gets erased in the playoffs, Milano is nice but not a guy you game plan around, Samuel & Shakir are nice complementary players. Now it's just Josh. Trade way up for Nabers or Odunze and that gets you to two, then with all the cap space next year get a complete game wrecker pass rusher in his prime. Fill out the rest of the roster with rookie contracts and solid vets. Hope the big 3 are healthy in the playoffs and a couple other guys like Kincaid develop into very good/great players that can exploit the attention the big 3 garner. That's the formula.

Von was on it for 10 games 😢

This needs to happen

The classic Steve Urkel / Stefon Urquelle dichotomy

🤣 noted! Just think with a year under Von's tutelage he could put it all together. I'd much rather a WR though, much much rather

This is why the only non-WR I wouldn't be disappointed by us taking at 28 is Chop Robinson. We saw with Von how expensive these guys are in the secondary market. You can get quality receivers on day 2 this year but there are only 3 or 4 potential high upside difference-making edge rushers and they're all R1