NFL Stock Exchange: An NFL Draft Podcast - NEW 2026 2-Round Mock Draft (Post-Free Agency!)

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

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Bryce gave us a $100 super chat. Oh my gosh, we got another $100 super chat for Bryce. I didn't want to have to say this. Bryce is going for the crown. NFL stock exchange presented by Bryce. Did you see what Peter just did? I knew this would happen if you said that. I didn't instigate any of this.

I didn't accuse Peter of being poor. Peter just said banned for ban. Oh my God. He's going ban for ban. He's going ban for ban with Bryce. True Bears fashion, fourth and 26. Save my best for the end. We can go ban for ban.

It's like a chicken fight right now. Okay. Right. Okay. Stop. Stop! Stop! I feel like a draft content stripper right now. Donate the money to charity.

So many said, is this an auction? We got another $100 super chat from Long This. The war between Bryce and Peter has ended. It's like the elimination chamber. And it's a faceless man. I really respect like this kind of introduction. Peter said a new opponent has arrived from the horizon. Longness just gave us another $100 super chat.

Oh my God. Long this gave us another $100 super chat. Longness is not only entered from the elimination chamber. He has smacked Peter and Bryce with a steel chair. The opening bell, NFL Saki Shades podcast. Somebody said that y'all would bake. My voice is fried because I was in, I was in Nashville this past weekend for the SEC

Men's Basketball tournament. Went to go see Florida. Nice. They lost by the greatest margin of defeat, I think, that they have had over the last three years. That was wonderful. It was great to see. But no, it's a wonderful time.

Anybody who lives in and around Nashville, you have a wonderful city. It's one of my favorite cities to visit. It's a lot of fun. Too much fun. some would say. Actually, I have a hot take. Okay. Ready for this one?

Yep. I'm actually a little nervous, but go ahead. Nashville's better than Vegas. No, that's not a hot take. To visit for a weekend. Actually, maybe like the previous generation would find that a scorcher. I think our generation would align more with what you say. Yeah.

Because everybody in our generation goes there for a bachelor or bachelorette party, and you discover how awesome of a place it is. and then you end up back there, whether it's for concerts, or whether it's to see the Preds or like for you singing basketball. No, I don't think that's, if you're not a gambler, you probably like Nashville better. Right, right. That would be how I would.

And even I would consider myself somewhat of a, I'd like to say I'm somewhat of a gambler myself. I'll play the tables. I would like to say that I am somewhat of a gambler. But the problem is is that if I walk into a casino The very first time that I was in Vegas I did this with a couple of buddies of mine

We blocked off like three or four hours To gamble right right Like in between you know Something we were doing in the afternoon and dinner I blew through 300 hours in like 15 minutes Because I was on like the coldest streak of all time What am I supposed to do for the next three hours? Peter's going to tell me to get my money up

So is Bryce so is longness And you know what it's a valid response. But other than that, I think Nashville is better at Vegas. I said it. I'm about to turn off the chat. I am about to turn off the chat.

I can't deal with this. First off, we start the stream. They say they can't hear you. Then they accuse both of us of being baked, which is absolutely not true. I just got home from work, a corporate environment. I need to do a two-round mock draft.

Yes, I look a little tired. Yeah. I'm sorry. You're apologizing for partying. You're like, oh, sorry, I was in Nashville, partying and losing all my money. The chat will claim then they can't hear me. I felt good about this mock going into it.

I was going to say, I was going to say, I got a way to make it all better. We got two round mock draft. Yeah. We got a lot of things to talk about here on the show. A lot of changes here with free agency, right? So we're going to talk about a lot of different draft strategies, right? Because you go through a first round mock draft and it's, I think before the combine, even around the senior bowl, it's a lot more about shouting out certain prospects.

But by the time we get to free agency, you're talking about, okay, we're moving on from what we would do in MOX, and now we're moving on to what we think will happen. It's much more predictive. And with that being said, now that we have a much more solidified view of what the depth charts are going to be, the team needs are going to be all that stuff, you can actually start to build draft strategies. Be like, hey, sure, edge rusher might be this team's biggest need. But I actually like some of the edge rushers in the second round. So there is, there are draft strategies that you can build, I think, throughout this whole thing. Yeah, you and I, when we have combos of like, what, you know, what show should we do next? And of course, you know, one out of every five times, it's a mock draft, understandably.

It's what the people want. But now we've gone, we've crossed, we've kind of crossed that bridge where there's, when we have a guest mock series, it'll be a first rounder because of the time. but you and I, it's so important to paint this two-round picture because you nailed it. You start to pick up on the runs of the draft. You start to pick up on where I can get this and why I can wait on that. So, I mean, yeah, let's go. Let's fire away.

I'm pretty excited for this because I feel like we have a good handle on the first round and how it'll affect the second round. Yeah, let's fire it up. So number one overall, you want to pick first or you want to pick second? I think I'll take evens today. Okay. All right. Yeah, I'll take evens today.

I'm feeling brave. Okay, Fernando Mendoza. Very easy. Whoa, all right. No change. No change here, obviously. Clear cut number one. And to be honest with you, man, I love so much of what the Raiders did. Obviously, getting Tyler Linderbaum is phenomenal on its own, but specifically getting to pair a rookie quarterback with Tyler Linderbaum is his center, the offensive line. It feels like it is moving in the right direction when it comes to being scheme fits to what Clint Kubiak is going to want to do. The defense has changed monumentally. The talent. is so much higher for the defense. And so obviously, yeah, you see on the screen a lot of the additions that the Raiders have had this year. It's, I think the Raiders are going to be a competitive football team. Certainly depending on how good Fernando Mendoza is right out of the gate, which maybe he's not going to start right away. But anyways, number one, it's not a question. We'll get more into what the Raiders can add at the top of the second round.

When we do the second round part of the mock. Number two for the Jets, I'm going to go with Arvel Reese in this spot. I've said for a while, it feels like it's kind of down to him. him, David Bailey, you could argue Sunny Stiles has at least cracked that door open after the Combine. Jets were pretty busy in free agency in the middle of the market. They weren't targeting the higher end players, but they need to raise the floor of their defense. You get David on Yamada to help a defensive tackle after you traded for Tavondre sweat. You got two edge players, one in Joseph Fassai and then Kingsley and Iqbara as well that might be able to handle a couple

different alignments for you. We've said before, we think they'll show more three, four looks now that They brought Carl Dumbar back to coach this defensive line. You know, you signed to Mario Davis, his third stint with the Jets. I think Reese will kind of get to play more of a versatile role as a rookie in this situation where you have a rotation of edge pass rushers, but he'll get to rush a little bit on third downs. He'll get to play off the ball. They were starting to sour a little bit. It felt like on Jamie and Sherwood after they extended them a year ago.

Is there a world where Reese plays off the ball next to DeMario Davis and Sherwood gets phased out? But the bottom line is the Jets need a star on this defense, and we know the upside that Reese has as that star. Offball linebacker that will probably over time transition to be a full-time edge player. Okay. Yeah, I mean, he said obviously at the combine. He wanted to be a full-time edge player. But I just hope they give him a lot of freedom to play in space

because that's quite literally where he is at his best. The Arizona Cardinals on the clock at number three, there were some smoke about Jeremiah Love, maybe being a pick for them before free agency. But adding Tyler out of the, Alger bringing back James Connor. You still do have Trey Benson. You know, it feels like by adding Tyler Alger and bringing back James Connor, you're not exactly thrilled with him as a main component of your rushing game moving forward. But as of right now, they've got a three-headed

rushing attack. I don't see them using this pick on Jeremiah Love. I don't mind some of the additions that they made. I think that it's interesting the report that was out there. Now, I only saw this by one person this morning. Do you see this? Somebody said that Josh Sweat. Uh, is not happy. So that got confirmed. I know it was floating for a week, but didn't seem legitimate. Now it is out there.

I don't know. I only saw one person. Yeah, I don't know. That was a tough one to figure out. I only saw one person tweet it. Same. Forgive me. I'm not sure of the person who tweeted it and reported it,

but they cover the Packers. And you would on the surface be like, okay, well, why am I trusting a Packers person about the Arizona Cardinals? but the thought process there is that Jonathan Gannon is the defense coordinator now with Green Bay. So if Josh Sweat is asking out of Arizona just a year after he signed his contract, it's strictly because they moved on from Jonathan Gannon. Like that is 100% why that happened.

So perhaps maybe a Packers person does know this because the Packers might be trying to get Josh Sweat. And that's how they knew that piece of information. I don't know though. I don't know. I don't ask me no I think they go offensive I think they go offensive line here like I wanted to say that to say like

edge rusher could be like if Arvill Reese is somehow on the board here at number three maybe they would think about Ruben Bain as well if Josh Swett's no longer there but until that gets a little bit more concrete I kind of do still think that they're going to go offensive line this is a trade down team

but when I look at the offensive line Editions. Isaac Sewell-Malo, okay, he's going to start at left guard for you, you think. Matt Pryor is kind of in that competition as well, but they still don't have anything at right tackle. They got nothing at right tackle. And perhaps they, maybe they do think that they could get offensive tackle on the top of

the second round. Well, so my feel for this, not to jump in on your pick, and it was Easton Butler. Thank you, Andrew, in the chat for that reminder about the story. sweat potential movement. It feels early for any of the offensive linemen. I agree with you. The question is, can Arizona get out of this selection? Arizona, isn't it weird?

They just have their pick in every round. Nothing more, nothing less. They just have one pick in every single round. They're definitely going to move. I mean, but also can you get out of this pick? Yeah, like who's moving up for what? Well, my take is it would have to be, spoiler alert for the next pick. I think the Titans are taking Jeremiah Love.

I think so too. So you're trying to reel somebody in for Jeremiah Love. Right. Like you need the giants to love him, the commanders to love him. But Washington can't. They don't have any picks. No, they don't have the capital. It would have to be future capital, which is probably why Washington went so nuts in free agency.

They don't have a lot of draft capital. I think Arizona would really love to trade back, but I don't think this. This is the exercise for truanies. No. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point, too. Who are their linebackers now? It's Cody Simon. It's Mack Wilson.

All right, I'm a pull in me. I'm going to take some of these styles. That makes total sense. I'm going to take a styles here. Just talked about offensive line. I think they really need offensive line. But again, the more I thought about this is a two-round exercise, I think we can get a right tackle at 34.

I think we can get a right tackle at the top of the second round. and I think we're going to look back on this Cardinals draft and feel a lot better about Sonny Stiles and an offensive lineman at three and whoever you're going to draft at 34 outside of the O line. All right, the Titans at 4, I said it. I think they take Jeremiah Love. Yeah, I said it.

So what? Attack me. Billboard level player as they open their new stadium down the line just to be a superstar alongside Cam Ward. Daniel in the chat says Titans take Jeremiah Love while the Avey is the new Titans logo, by the way. On top of it. Daniel's on top of it.

Oh, he's got the logo as his Abby already. Nice, Daniel. Yeah. What do you think of their rebrand? I, dude, I loved it. The logo is okay. I think the color palette is phenomenal on the uniforms. I think the logo's great.

You can't really lose with that blue. It's throwback colors? Yeah. I like the home jerseurs. Asserting their dominance as full. Formerly the Oilers? Yeah, come on. Houston Texans, you are not the Oilers.

We were the Oilers. I mean, that is truly what they are doing here. Yeah, good for them. I thought the Unis, I agree with DB in the chat. I think the unions are clean. I love the all white, the white up top and the white pants. I think it's a great uniform. Red face mask, right?

I think the red works with the light blue. I really do. I thought they did a great job. Me too, big fan. And I think Jeremiah Love will look fantastic in that uniform. in their offense and be the identity of their offense with their young quarterback. Peter said Safeway Oilers. Safeway have the same colors, the supermarket.

I don't have Safeway, but. I was going to say, Safeway a Midwestern thing? I think it's like a, I think it's like a West and Midwest thing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, I've never. Do people stand for Safeway the way that they do like Publix or Wegmans? Yeah, chat, fill us in here. I don't know.

Is anybody like a Safeway stand in the chat here? I'm on Safeway's website. I don't see the color palette as the same. Ryan said, hell no. Hell no. Hate Safeway. The chat does not like Safeway. I don't F with Safeway.

Christ, no. Wow. Safeway, how are you still in business? I've never seen a disapproval rate this high for anything. Wait, wait, wait, hold on. Jay, somebody said it's goaded. Yeah, Jay said it was goaded. Jay said it's coated.

Sauter hates it. Mega ass. Wow. I've never seen this kind of organized. I haven't seen this sort of organized hate since I opened the show and my mic was muted. I'm not going to lie. This has become a newer thing. Like the chat's been good.

Now it feels like the chat is what you fear with AI. Oh, 100%. What if it becomes too? powerful. Like it's out of control. We can ask a chat for like a consensus on anything. I will never respect Safeway ever again in my life. If I'm ever on a trip and we drive by a Safeway, I'd be like,

terrible. Yeah. Anyways. Unless they want to sponsor this show in which case we'll sell out. I'll do a mock draft from a Safeway. You will see me bake the bread at the bakery section of the Safeway. I'll bring build your own six-pack. to Safeway.

Yeah, you can tell we need a sponsor. You can tell I have a child on the way. All right, you're up with the Giants at 5. No, I'm not. I just said the Jeremiah Love pick. All right, I'm up with the Giants at 5. Remember when we did that and we got like halfway through the mock? They're like, wait a second.

I was Trevor wrong order for evens now. Okay. No, Jeremiah love. It's not ideal for a Giants team that it feels like there's some smoke. with the fire of them being interested in Jeremiah Love to pair with him and Cam Scataboo. No Sunny Stiles also not ideal for them. I think there's a world they could go offensive line, but likely not since they brought back Germain Aluminor.

Right. Yeah, that was a big one for them getting him back in. Which I want to make it clear. I think that was a great move. I agree with you. Yeah, had to do it. It was a very needed move for them. Big deal for Isaiah likely.

Three years, $40 million. That is like a top five tight end contract. So I think he is, I think he's going to be wide receiver for all intents of purposes, like receiver number two or three on this team, depending on who they draft. He should play actually where Wondell Robinson did, ironically. Oh.

Yeah, Wondale out, Isaiah likely in. They kind of change what their slot pass catcher looks like. They have Darius Slayton, who could be your vertical threat, or just somebody who wanted to. of the options to be a vertical threat. Darnel Mooney, they signed Darnel Mooney. Tremaine Evans do a decent deal, three years, $36 million. And then, you know, I would think corner here, like I've seen people talk about, Jermon McCoy, a Mansour Delane, something like that, but I think the Greg Newsom signing takes them out of that at number five. Because they have

a Debo, they've got Drew Phillips, they've got Greg Newsom, they have Deontay Banks, they got Tyler Newman, Javon Holland. They also signed Ardarius, Washington, Jason Pinnock. So I think they're good there. I really do. Well, now that you went through every position on the roster, what do you think they're going to do? You'll never know more about the Giants chat. It's why people tune in. They do. I just had to do it to them.

I had to do it to them. Well, let's go to Carnal Tate. It's fine. Ice pick. I like it. Thanks. Jackass. Oh, man.

We're having fun. We're having a good time. All right, Cleveland Browns. Do you believe in the Monroe Freeling hype? Not here. So here's how I think we got here. I think the Browns really liked Freeling at their second pick in the first round, and then reality struck that he's not going to be there.

But the tricky situation with this is you just took the player that is kind of the consensus pick for them at six. I think you're right. I think the Giants are all over wide receivers right now. So this is a very realistic scenario for the Browns. The good news with the Browns is they added Zion Johnson. They added Elton Jenkins. They added Titus Howard.

They, we were like, God, the Brown's going to need to fill four spots of the offensive line in the draft. And now they don't have to do that. They still need a true tackle. I don't know, man. Like, this is early for Freeling. It really, really is. I don't think they go any of the other wide receivers, unfortunately.

You don't. You think Tyson's, well, I don't think it would be Lemon because of his size. And then Tyson, you think it's too early because of the medical. I just, I cannot imagine the NFL is going to draft somebody with his injury history and his medicals at six. I just can't see it. And then you run into the issue. I love Jordan Tyson. I think he's worthy of the sixth overall pick.

Me too. You and I had a wide receiver one when we did the wide receiver episode. Yeah, I still do. That's probably not going to change for me. Talent wise, I would agree. Here's the question. Is there a move out scenario here to go back a couple of spots and still take? take freeling.

Like would a team come up for Caleb Downs? Probably not. Safety? I mean, the only team that would is Dallas. Oh, David. Somebody would jump

the commanders for Bailey. Yeah, probably. That's... Yeah, because I'm taking Bailey. Mm-hmm. That would be the move. Okay. What picks do the Chiefs have?

Well, a lot now. Hold on. They got nine, they got 29, they got 40 in the second round. They have 74 in the third, 109 in the fourth, 148 in the fifth, two other fifth round picks, and then a sixth. This is, this team should make the move. If you're willing to do it, because you have the chiefs at nine. I don't want to just railroad your pick.

For David Bailey? For David Bailey. So the Rich Hill chart separates nine and six by about, Well, let's see, 60-ish points. Is that a third? Which would be, it's almost their exact first pick 74. Okay. Do we think?

So the Browns, if you're the Browns, Freeling is not going to Washington or New Orleans. So wouldn't you just want the 74th pick in the draft to move back a couple spots? Yeah, you would. If you sign off on that trade, I'm down with it, but. It's fine. I see the chat saying, Bain. Ooh.

Yeah, either one. Yeah, Bain's better. I want to look at the construction of their roster. We almost got him to admit it, folks. No, never. We almost got him to admit it. Bain schematically is a good fit for them.

Good football player is good. Schematically, Bain is the fit. Yeah, I'd still make that move because I'd still be worried about him going in front of you. I would take him to New Orleans at 8. You make that deal? I'd make that deal. Let's make that deal.

The Chiefs go up and make sure they get their guy. It only costs pick 74. They have plenty of draft capital. They flip with the Browns. And this would be for Bain. Well, you're still picking for the Chiefs anyway. I'm still picking for the Brown. So you're going to take Bain.

Which I think is the schematic fit. Wait, see, you're going to take Bailey? No, no, no. At 6? Or you're taking Bain? No, this is for Bain. Oh, you're saying, you're saying because I controlled the team at 9. Yeah, if I'm the Chief.

I'm trading up and I'm taking Ruben Bain. Yeah, 100%. So I'm jumping in Washington to make it happen because I also think that the Saints could potentially pick Bain as well. So to me, this makes the most sense to trade up and get Rubin Bain. Now, that was my thought. So many. Somebody pointed out in the chat,

hey, the Browns can't roster that many draft picks because the Browns now would have 9, 24, 39, 70, 74, and then a fourth rounder, three fifth rounders, a sixth rounder, a seventh rounder. But you could start trading some of those outside and get those for like 2027. You could start moving those back. Yeah, I wouldn't worry with that because like Trevor said, there's a, there's a what you're getting a more premium select. You're adding another top 100 pick.

And now you could have a little bit more flexibility to navigate from 24 or 39 with the extra third rounder as ammo. All right. Yeah. Let's take Ruben Bain. Sweet. Ruben Bain goes six of the chiefs. And then you are back on the clock again to the commanders, which. You kind of said it already, but still.

Yeah, I think that this is David Bailey. What deals did they give to OA and, man, they gave OA a huge deal? And Kalevon Chason, right? Chason's a one-year deal. It's a one-year-12 million dollar deal. But OA got 68-nill guaranteed. Yeah, 100 total if it played out the deal. And then they got Leo Chanel as well, which I think is a good pick.

Man, but like that scheme, you're still having waves of pass rushers where it shouldn't stop them from taking. No, it's... Or Caleb Downs should be in the conversation here, I think. Well, that's really what I'm thinking about here because they have Will Harris right now is one of the safety spots. I actually don't know where we're at with Kwan Martin. They're Commander's fans in the chat here.

Like, where are we at with Kwan Martin? Because I felt like he got drafted and he was sort of this like safety nickel player who they were really excited about. Oh, well, hold on. Movie, uh, stop recording. Love my camera. I'm just, I'm curious. Yeah, so I feel he had a bad year, yeah.

Right. If he's in their plans at all whatsoever. Because if he's not, then I just, I don't really feel like there's anything in the way from them to potentially take downs. Somebody in the chats to Jordan Tyson, I would love Jordan Tyson for this team. but are you taking Jordan Tyson when you have so few draft picks to be able to pick from in this class anyways and you're going to pick a guy who's got the injury history he's at? Somebody said they signed his cross.

I know they signed Nick Cross, but if you have Nick Cross and Caleb Downs, you feel really good about what you're doing. Yeah, they can be interchangeable. You feel really good on the back end. Enough. You could ask Downs to do a little bit more backend stuff and cross the playup in the box and the line of scrimmage. That pairing is no problem with that. I'm going to take David Bailey

I'm just going to take David Bailey they were so bad at pass rush last year Chase on's like like we said only had that one year deal just give me the best pass rush possible and try to fix the problem there so now you're on the clock with the Saints today

Saints at 8 we know wide receiver has to be in the conversation here it goes back to the problem once Carnell Tate comes off the board you have to assume the team is okay with Tyson's medicals or you have to assume they're okay with Mackay Lemon's limitations, I think alignment-wise.

You could just say we just think that Downs is so good. Oh, Downs for the Saints. I know, it's something that we don't really bring up very often because he usually goes at seven. So Sanker was good for them last year. And they have Justin Reed. And they do have Justin Reed. What's Reed on?

It's probably this last year guaranteed money, I would think. I would think so, if not the last year overall for him. He is going into a contract year. He will be, oh, no, no, no. He has two years left on his deal. And I think the guarantees do dry up after this year. But I don't, I don't know if they'd take downs, as good as he is. Oh, re gets, oh, man.

So I'll tell you what I did in, I have a mock draft coming out tomorrow or if you're listening to this on Tuesday, it's out for NBC. I had them take Mansler Delane here. They have lost a lot of corner talent in free agency over the years. Delane's ability, really in all coverages, but you watch what he did in man coverage this year to match movements, to be physical. If they care more about corner and feel comfortable with their. safety room. Corner to me would be the bigger need. So they lost Alante Taylor.

Yeah, they don't have Taylor anymore. And the year before, they lost the Debo. They lost Paulson and Debo. So right now, Isaac Headome is their starter on the outside, along with Kulade McKinthry, and then Quincy Riley is scheduled to be their nickel corner. I mean, I could see a world where they picked the lane. Yeah. I don't think you're too far off here.

I'm going to go with Delane here. I get the chat really pounding the table for Caleb Downs, but I think they're underestimating a little bit how much the league likes Delane. Like I think Delane, it's hard to envision him not going. He's a lock for the top 12. So if you feel he's a lock for the top 12, what's stopping a corner needy team from taking him here with Bain and Tate off the board also changed the math here.

Right. A lot of scenarios the Saints can get one of those. guys and here they can't. Yeah. I'll go with Mansour Delane. Number one corner for the Saints. All right. Also, like we like to say on this show.

Low moving costs. Low moving costs. Load up a U-Haul, baby. Don't even have to hire movers. Just get a couple of your buddies. Throw it in there. Six-pack will do the trick. All right, the Browns are back on the clock.

So you're picking with the Browns here at nine because I pick for the Chiefs when they trade it up to go get Ruben Bain. So do you feel more comfortable taking offensive line? here now that you got like the extra pick and you just feel better about it or or do you think the NFL views Tyson good enough to take it nine or lemon I think honestly the sense I'm getting right now is the coaching staffs are trying to figure that out when I ask about Tyson you have like the fence riding from the scouting departments because of the medicals but they know he's good I think the coaching staffs are now getting involved and just care about the talent oh okay so

in a pro Tyson way. Yeah, because I mean, you know what, coaches, they don't get as nuanced sometimes, depending on organizational organizations. Some coaching staffs have a bigger influence on the draft and others, and some don't. Like, look at the Giants. The Giants this year transitioned to a more

Harbaugh-run organization than Joe Shane run organization behind the scenes. But then you obviously have a lot of old-school teams that the front office picks the players and the staff has to make the most of that situation. situation. I'll say this if you're if you're if you're thinking about offensive line at all. I am. I do believe that with the additions that they have made, Cleveland and Monkin are leaning more into a power run scheme. Zion Johnson, power running player. Tevin Jenkins, power running

player. Dewan John, Juan Jones, power runner. Titus Howard, more of a man in gap scheme, power offensive tackle and also offensive guard. I think Elton Jenkins can do both. But with Munkin, that was a big question to answer in free agency because he ran a ton of power running concepts with Baltimore three years ago. It was about 50-50 pretty even split two years ago. And then last year they mainly ran outside zone. They were a top 10 team in terms of percentage of run plays where they ran outside zone. So Munkin has kind of done it all for the Ravens.

But clearly here, I think the offensive line that he's, is bringing it together unless he is doing this just out of necessity and there's no scheme thought involved whatsoever it's a short-term thing it looks like he's leaning into wanting to be more of a man in gaps game power blocking downhill run run game the question is though what left tackle prospect in this draft gives you that um all those guys play on the right side and could play guard yeah yeah someone in the chat is saying like take vega but the problem with taking O'ane, even though I think he would be the most talented interior offensive linemen on the team, didn't Cleveland give Zion Johnson like, well, he got paid?

Three years, $50 million. So, like, he's, so like, him and Titus Howard are starting. Yes. They are starting. No question about it. They are starting this year. Yeah, well, yeah. Well, they don't have any other options at center.

I don't think legitimate options. No. So, all right. I'm going to go freeling here because I believe in the league-wide hype about him as much as this is rich for our blood. This is a predictive first, first round. And at least they got the extra asset. I believe if they're at six and Carnell Tate is there, they would take Carnell Tate. I think Jordan Tyson would be in play in this slot.

But I'll go freeling because, Trev, I feel good about getting a wide receiver with their second first rounder. I agree. So that puts the Cincinnati Bengals on the clock at number 10. This is very easy for me because Caleb Downs is here. Yes, and this is my pick. And I agree with you. Oh, yeah, I forgot. No, but I agree.

You nailed it. This is Caleb Downs all day. Often when he's not here, I find myself going Dylan Thieneman. So I agree. 100%. So I'm going to take the better safety because Brian Cook could play a essentially any role in the secondary, which is one of the reasons you go out and pay a guy like that. Now you go get Caleb Downs, who also could do that.

And now you have two interchangeable safeties that'll stabilize a defense that did not have stability last year. I love it. I wondered if we were going to get spicy and Caleb Downs is going to be off the board and we were going to make the Theneman pick at number 10. Because I was going to heavily make the case for him to be the pick if Banks wasn't there. But I do still think that Banks. is a better player. Hey audio listeners. I know you guys are more audio than YouTube, but we're making a big push right now and a big campaign to reach 75K subs on YouTube by the time the draft rolls around. If you have a YouTube account or even if you don't and you would love to support the show by just creating one and subscribing, it would really mean the world to us. We appreciate you guys. Thank you so much for listening to the show on audio. Let's get back to the episode.

Dolphins at 11. Going to be honest with you, Connor. Screwed ourselves. No. Oh, this team's awful. Yeah, they got some work to do. This is the worst roster in the NFL on paper. I find it hard to disagree. Because you could say that the Cardinals are also gunning for the number one pick next year. I agree. Cardinals' defense side of the football alone.

And their wide receivers and obviously Traymond Bryant, like alone, are more talented than what Miami has after the fire sale and cutting spree that they have been on over the last couple of months since they hired Jeff Halfley. Now, that's not to say that I disagree with the moves. You were kind of in a spot where you looked at, you looked at some of the old contracts that Mike McDaniel brought in and Chris Greer signed and it's like, hey, we got to get out of these.

And very clearly, they're just trying to eat as much dead cap as they possibly can this year, be as bad as possible, really load up with good draft picks this year and then hopefully good draft picks in 2027 and be able to hit the ground. running for that 2027 and 2028 season. But I think that this team, I mean, you

can't really go wrong here. And Jeff Halfley mentioned many times trenches, trenches, trenches, trenches, trenches, trenches. That is where he wants to get better. So I'm kind of thinking Francis Maui Noah here. That's where

my mind goes, especially that you know, I know people are going to be like, well, they signed Jamari Salern for agency. Yeah, he's a depth player. And the thing with Sawyer is, who, you know, was able to play multiple roles for Georgia at a high level in the NFL, because he's built like a guard. He is built like a guard. He is not really great at guard.

He seems to hold up a little better when he has to play tackle, which is bizarre, where I don't think Green Bay is just signed off on he has to start at right guard for them this year. And I agree with you, put on your Green Bay hat when picking for the dolphins here at 11. Bigger, tougher. Yeah, I know. Scary words. But Maui Noah.

Not too Green Bayes. We already got rid of the original one. We're hitting Green Bay in the second round. Buckle up, buddy. Sully makes a good point. Maui Noah is literally zero moving costs. Yeah, correct. Correct.

He stays in the same apartment. They still live on campus. You don't even have to rent the U-Haul. You don't have to break the lease. You don't have to hire movers. nothing. You're just celebrating. Francis Maui Noah.

I think they're just going to invest. I think they're going to heavily invest in it. I think if they top tier pass rusher makes it to them, like if David Bailey or Rubin Bain it somehow makes it to them at number 11, I think they could absolutely be the pick there. But if not, I think they're going into your offensive line.

Because even if you want to tell me that Jamari Sawyer is going to be a starter for them at guard, probably, because you already have Austin Jackson. and Patrick Paul, and Patrick Paul played a lot better last year. Jonah Savinaea was the starting guard for them last year, and he was the lowest-graded guard in PFF system. Like, he was not good last year. There's no way that you could just go into next year saying,

yeah, yeah, he'll be fine. He'll take an absolute leap this year. You got to do something, whether it's here or later, but I think if Maui Noah is here, it makes too much sense. Dallas at 12, I think you're going to like this one. So a weird spot for Dallas. because Sunny Stiles is gone. That's not a surprise.

Yeah, long gone. Mansor Delane is gone who would make a lot of sense for Dallas. They need help at Corner. For me, I think this is when it starts for Messador. You look at how their defensive front. So they've added a lot of veterans to their front as they try to become a competitive defense. Big trade for Quinn and Williams. They obviously got Kenny Clark back in the Mike of Trade.

They get Roshan Gary this offseason as a veteran edge presence. Donovan Azaraku might not be ready for camp with that hip surgery. Somebody said not onk. Oh, no. What's the timeline for Ezraku? They said just might not be ready for camp with the hip. I don't know what that means. Never good.

Now, another option I go here as well. The problem is Dallas never does this. I like this player better than Messador. Dallas doesn't do this would be Thinaman. I would draft Thinemann here. Right. Over Messador.

I will have Theneman ranked higher than Messador. Is Dallas going to take a safety? This should be the time they should take one here this early. They signed Jalen Thompson to be their strong safety.

Thineman can be your free. Hold on. And I see in the chat, the Jerry Pick is Falk. I know. I think Dallas fans are just so sick of it. Well, they did. Oh, wait, never mind.

What's that? Never mind. I thought that they, because I remember that Malik Hooker was picked in the middle of the first round. It was not from Dallas. But he was picked in the middle of the first round by the Indianapolis Coles. That's right. Yeah.

Was Ballard still the GM then? Was that his first? Yeah, I think that was his first year. That's unbelievable. All right. Let's go, let's go, 2017. Let's go Thinamon. I really like this fit.

Admittedly, I will be surprised if Dallas changes their ways and is willing to take this position this early, but I think they should in this draft. Yeah, I do too. And I just think that, again, building draft strategies, there's too many potential good edge rushers that might still be there at 20. I mean, you still might get Messador at 20.

You still might get Messador at 20. Like, you got to believe that there's a strong chance that that could happen for them. in the chat. Owen said first time getting to watch live. Shout out to Owen. Shout out to Owen.

L.A. Rams. How about those AJ Brown rumors? AJ Brown will will play a maximum of six more games for the Philadelphia Eagles. That's right. I think he will play a max of six more games.

And he might play none. He might play zero. But that's what I think. think. I think the world would be more surprised if he ever plays for the Eagles again. Yeah, I think he either gets traded at on June 2nd or in training camp or before the deadline. I would I would bet a lot that he is not on this team after the trade deadline at the very latest timeline. Now, I don't know if the Rams have the ability to wait that long, right? maybe they are in a situation where they have the ability to add A.J. Brown at the deadline or something.

Like maybe they are still in the conversation because who knows? Like the commanders, well, I guess the commanders wouldn't be involved in trades of the Eagles because it'd be within the division. The Patriots are. It's a Patriots. I think the Patriots are going to be eternally interested in A.J. Brown and I don't think that's going away. So ultimately, I do think that A.J. is going to be a patriot. Is this Lemon? This is the tricky part.

is is it lemon or Tyson or is it Tyson he's so good i think the rams would like lemon more and i think the only thing that really takes lemon off the board for them here at 13 is spencer fano being available still and do they just view him as an offensive lineman who is so good of an athlete you cannot pass this player let's put him on our line you know what's weird with the rams somewhere right as I was doing a lot more research and looking back at them before free agency Warren McClendon was randomly good when he had to play right tackle oh yeah so what do they think of him do they think like hey you had a really nice year for us or do they think no we

feel good about right tackle for a long long time it's one of those weird ones right where I would imagine they're pretty comfortable with their offensive line but you make a good point that Spencer Fano is just so good. Do you just take him and find a place for him? Yeah, because what is, let me look, hold on. You know, you have Stephen Vila at left guard.

Do they like, do they think Fano could play center for them down the road? They have Bo Limmer. So maybe Bo could be an option for them at center. They have Coleman Sheldon, but again, I

I don't know if this is the wrong way to think about the Rams, but I think this 13th pick could be so powerful for them. And McClendon's entering the last year of his rookie contract. So if you draft Fano, you might have a starter along the interior of the offensive line right away. You might have your right tackle of the future. Or worst case scenario, if someone gets hurt on the offensive line for you on your Super Bowl run, You could put Spencer Fano in. I don't think it's great.

I know it's not the fun. You know. The Chad just said Safeways mid. I know. Just out of nowhere. Just out of nowhere. Bring you Safeway back into this, which I didn't even know existed until today. Well, it's Peter Dunn.

All right. What were you saying about Fano on this office line? No, it's, you know, it's the old vegetables versus dessert pick kind of situation. Like, Fano, it, it, is. It's not going to be fun initially, but it's so smart. The only thing I could say is you brought it up this way. Them checking in on AJ Brown kind of tells you that they are at least concerned about Devante Adams as their number two from a health perspective across the entire season. Right.

He doesn't play full seasons anymore. This isn't a one-off. This is a thing now for years. So the wide receiver situation clearly is on the. their mind, at the top of their mind. And Lemon, you know, is going to, he's going to play. When's their next pick? Hold on. It's 61. 61.

I'm going to Spencer Fano. I'm picking Fano. That idea is just too good to me. And I think that, I think Les Need and Shaw McVeigh will see a ton of value in it. Because here's the thing. I do agree with you completely that I think offensive, or I think wide receiver is at the top of mind for them. They have been able to develop wide receivers. And I know that they're ready to win now. That's why you go out and you get to Vante Adams.

That's why you're in the conversations for AJ Brown. But they also know that they've been able to find some really good wide receivers much later in the draft. Yeah, just find Pooka Nakua in the fifth. It's very simple. I don't, I really, I just, I don't understand why more teams don't just draft Pooka to cool every year. It's pretty simple. It seems like I can't lose strategy to me. Yeah. All right. I'll end my best effort to try to pick up our pace before we're here

till 8 o'clock, but I can't make any promises. 14 for the Ravens. This might surprise some people with Lemon and Tyson sitting there. I'm going to take Kenyon Sadiq. And I think that this is a pick that could very, very well happen on draft night. Sadiq is big he is their type of player in terms of the perimeter blocking the on the move blocking he can run by linebackers for them he gives them size at pass catcher which they need this is a player that i promise you the ravens are really really going to like in this process hate me now hey the fix is in keep an eye on this one no the fix is in the fix is in folks we already know the fix is in. No, because if the

fix was in, I don't need two receivers at 16. I don't. The fix is in. Hey, me now. Well, I'm going to take one of them off the board just to spite you. Do it. The bucks would. No, I'm not. No, I don't think, I don't think

they would. An interesting an interesting sort of like evaluation of how Jason Light drafts is a lot of his premium picks are in the trenches. in let's see. So he was a general manager in 2015. So, you know, James was his top pick there.

But then Donovan Smith was right after that, so you get an offense tackle. Second round, he went past rush for sure in the next year in Noah Spence. Nothing in 2017. Vita Valle, obviously, in the first round in 2018. He ended up going Devin White in 2019. But then you get in a run where 2020, Tristan Wurst's first round, trenches. Joe Try and Show Yank in 2021. pass rusher. Logan Hall

at the top of the second round in 2022. Collijah Cancy and then Cody Mock back to back in 2023. Graham Barton and Chris Braswell in 2024 back to back right there. So Jason Light looks at trenches if he ever has a need there. I think that they would love a pass rusher

here. I don't know if they would pick Messador. I think he'd be great for them. I don't know if he picks an older pass rusher. I'm going to take Vega. Awane. Nice. I'm going to take O'Anne here for the Buccaneers. I'm going to give them a player who they can feel really confident about playing a guard and upgrading the overall talent of the team. I don't know if they'll do

this. I don't know how highly they specifically feel about Ben Bredesen moving into this next season. But Cody Bock missed a lot of time the year prior. So I think that this is not one that I'm, I have like heard anything on. I just look at their roster and I look at who Jason Light has been as a general manager. and I feel like we could start to get some more momentum here if one of these top interior offensive linemen gets to them at number 15. Yeah, Vango Yawane is just one of those guys that a lot of teams are going to like as a comfort pick where they know they just can't go wrong, solidifying that portion of their roster in a league that's chasing O-Line talent all the time,

where he's going to be in play, I think, like you just said, at 15, at 16, the Steelers. He's in a really good spot in this draft. All right, so now 16, the Jets. I actually have a choice to make. Go ahead. I have a choice to make. I'm actually very intrigued to see which choice you make here in all, in all honesty.

I think people are going to be surprised. Oh, but maybe not. It is crisp razzle, huh? It is going to be, it is going to be Jeremy Bernard, step on down. Hey, chicks dig the vertical passes. You know, it's funny. People keep saying rigged, but every mock draft out there feels like one of the three receivers falls. Of course.

Yeah, they do. Because I think that's realistic. I think so, too. I'm going to take Jordan Tyson here at 16. Now, once again, this is a predictive mock. I think he is more in line. Of course, the medicals, blah, blah, blah. It's like we have to say it as a caveat every time.

I think he's more in line with what their scouting department would value than McKay Lemon. Now, if Tyson's gone. on and Carnell Tate's gone. Maybe Mackay Lemon is in consideration because they desperately need a number two wide receiver. They can keep the slot open because Garrett Wilson plays inside and outside. Adonai Mitchell plays outside, so that's fine.

But I think they will value Tyson being a bigger player, a really high-end separator, his explosive separation and ball skills. So Jordan Tyson and Garrett Wilson as their wide receiver pairing. Once again, like this is a, you know, predictive mock and this is this is the direction i think the jets would go if they were debating between him and lemon uh you're making panthers fans very happy they really want lemon right because they do and he's getting closer to them at number 19 the you're going to break their hearts

yeah yeah of course as a bucks fan yeah yeah yeah yeah we're scrolling all the way down to like the 300s for the bit no i'm just kidding so detroit here at number 17 i like what detroit has done getting kade maize on the offensive line allowing their interior to kind of stay the same with Tate Rallage and Christian Mahogany. You have Penny Sewell, obviously, and then it's Giovanni Manu at the right tackle spot. We could go with the right tackle here. You mean left tackle? Yes, yes.

Sorry, left tackle. Sorry, Peney Sewell. Yes. I mean, I do think that Penny Soule could play left tackle, but I guess Lomu is the only experienced left tackle. I'm not really worried about Penny moving the left tackle if he needs to, to be honest. Pass rusher, though, is where my mind goes, because without Al-Qaeda Muhammad, you basically just have Tyler Lacey and Ahmed Hossanine. That's it.

That's on the edge spots. Yeah, that is, they let some guys walk. They've been looking for this kind of spot. So, so here's, somebody said, pick lemon. It's just two Amman-Ross, St. Browns. That's what I was joking about. So I think that this comes down to Akeem Messador or Keldrick Fall. I have a question for you.

Yes. Doesn't it feel like they would love Caden Proctor? They need a left tackle and they love big people. I think that they could absolutely be in on team. I just wanted to at least address it before we make the pick. I think they're going pass rush here though. Okay. When you look at just what has happened in free agency, again, they already had a pass rush need and then they lost Al-Qadie Muhammad.

it. They've got, they, they have nothing on the edges other than Aiden Hutchinson. So I really do think that it's a keen Mestador or Keldrick Falk. I would take a key Messador. I think he's a better pass rusher. I think he's got more juice to him. Hand usage is already good enough to be able to contribute right away, which I think Detroit really wants and needs. I think Keldrick Falk would be a good player for them, but you're kind of betting on promise a little bit more with him. The question is, does the run defense, the overall size, and just the fact that he's,

He's one of the youngest prospects in this class, and he doesn't have the injury history, you know, that Akeem Messdor has, you know, being an older prospect at 25 this rookie season. Do you think, do you have a feeling one way or another, that the Lions would be more in on the younger edge rusher in Caldric Fall? Because if so, then I think he would be the pick. But I don't have a good feeling one way or the other.

I don't think they look at it that way. I think they're just always trying to assemble a roster of who's just going to make them a better football team right now, where I think they're one of, of the teams that would be okay with Messador. Then I'm going to take Messador. I'm going to take Messador here. So I laid out that argument.

Those are the two guys I was between. To me, I think it's an edge rusher either way. It's just whichever preference the Lions might have. All right. Minnesota at 18, they are fascinating because they need help at defensive tackle. Caleb Banks' injury again, I think is going to cost him in. this draft. There's just no, I just don't know how you take Caleb Banks at this point in the top 20. I don't. He's a big foot guy. Yeah. So that's a problem. When you look at safety,

Emmanuel McNeil Warren makes a lot of sense for them. He's, whether people agree with it or not, he's going. He's going early in this draft. I do think that Nick is correct. Why receiver should be in consideration? I don't know how far removed they are from Jordan Addison maybe not being on this team for a lot longer. And they don't have- Lemons there. Right. And they don't have Jalen Naylor either. God, that's crazy that.

It's not often that Lemon is here. And you just signed Kyler, right? Yeah, I know you lost Nailer. I get it. But I think if you're Minnesota, how do you go into the year for Brian Flores with this defensive tackle and safety room? when you could probably get a capable number three receiver on day two of the draft.

I would tell you that this safety class is good enough to where we're doing two rounds, obviously, so we're picking at 49 again. I bet you'll have the opportunity to take a safety of 49. That's fair. Right. Like Halsey could be there. Maybe you feel good about Kamari Ramsey. Is it a key Wheatley if you want it more of a free safety type of a player?

I mean, you know who I would take here that I don't think is going top 20. I would take Caden McDonald's here every single time. Oh. I don't think he's going top 20. Garrett Greenlee's in the chat, just spamming the lemon emoji. I mean, lemon's the fun pick. It would absolutely break the hearts of the Panthers fans that have been sitting here waiting for this. I agree, though.

Like I said it, I don't love their detackle room. I don't know how you expect Brian Flores' front to compete with that detackle room. I want to take Caden McDonald. I know we're trying to stay in the mold of predictive, but all the de-tackles are going to be, what, 49 is their next pick? 49 is your next pick. I can get a receiver or safety at 49. Do I think any of the defensive tackles that are ready to play next year

are just sitting there at 49? Well, probably the one that you would want is Christian Miller. I don't think he gets at 49. And then you're looking at, yeah, Yeah, I mean, Dominique Orange, Derell Jackson Jr. Those guys sort of play that, that role that you're looking for. All right, the Panthers are up at 19. So the Panthers, Jalen Phillips, Devin Lloyd,

I think those two moves in the defense side of the ball allow them to go offense. Yeah, that's great flexibility they created for themselves. Because you got to think about what they did last year as well. A lot of defensive free agents. like Deshawn Wharton came over, Bobby Brown came over. Remember, they had the resignings of J.C. Horn. I think Mike Jackson signed a deal last year as well.

They signed Trayvon Merrig, too. This year, it's a lot of money in Devin Lloyd, a lot of money in Jalen Phillips. And I think that gives them the flexibility to be able to go with an offensive player. I think that them getting Rashid Walker on a one-year deal is such an excellent move for them. I think they also need to add a center at some point after losing Cade Mays, but you're not going to add a center here at number 19. With Lemon on the board, I kind of think that it's Lemon. Is there somebody else?

I mean, I don't love Trevin Wallace, but I wouldn't take CJ Allen here. You could think about it, but I don't think that they would. No, I think that was the point of going out and getting Devin Lloyd. Right, right. I don't think they'd pick Falk over Lemon. I'd hope not. At this point, it would just be like, is it Mackay Lemon, or do you love Omar Cooper Jr.?

that much. Yeah, that's the receiver I find myself writing into them because Lemon's not always here. Yeah, that would be some, that would be some kind of prop to set right now, right? Omar Cooper going before Mackay Lemon. There's a world where you could convince yourself that Omar Cooper Jr's the better Z receiver, which is kind of what the Panthers would want schematically because Coker could be the slot for you. Tett obviously can do it all, but he's, like the outside X and then Cooper Jr. is the Z receiver. But I fully believe that McIleman could be a great Z receiver as well. I'm going to take Mackay.

Okay. I wanted to have that conversation, but yeah, I'm going to take Mackay at 19 for the Panthers. All right, the Cowboys, we feel, we believe Jerry when he says they're not going to take an injured player, right? Like McCoy just is not in play here. I don't think so either, which is a shame because. when he's right, this would make them so much better. So much better.

I'm going to go with CJ Allen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, it's not even close. Yeah, I'm going to go with CJ Allen. So you got Thineman, right? Thineman went ahead in the... Yes. Thineman and CJ Allen, man,

you just got so much better in the middle of the field. That's it. So much better in the middle of the field. Linebacker is a... A absolute hole for them right now. Allen, also, like, I want to make it clear. I think Alan is worth this pick. I know some people are kind of torn up off ball linebacker and Alan here.

I think he's certainly good enough to go in this pick. I agree with you. Steelers at 21. Steelers at 21. Hmm. So we often go wide receiver for them here at 21. And I suppose we can still, but I don't want to. Because I still think there's.

something there with Roman Wilson. Yeah, I guess we'll find out from them, right? And it's a whole new coaching staff. Troy Faltonu played left tackle at Washington. He plays right tackle for the Steelers. But like if you don't, if you're giving up on Broderick Jones, I think you can move Tri Fatano if there's somebody who is more of like a right tackle fit. Like I look at Blake Miller and I wonder if that's the best pick for them.

Yeah, I mean, the beauty of Fatom. is that he's he's one of the rare guys in the NFL you could argue he's effective at all five positions if he needed if they go one it makes it here i i i would kind of love that as well that's what i had in my latest mock draft just because he did make it and it's like the steelers can't pass on someone like that yeah too bad he's already a book um but they i was about to say like would they go e-men worry probably not they have jalen they just signed darnel savages to jacuan brisker they signed jemeld on the outside oh mcneel Warren? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you say Eman W? Oh, did I say that? That's funny because like the name

of manual and they both play this weird safety role. No, when I see EMW, it makes me say E. Man W Yeah, no, that's what I thought. That's happened like four times today specifically. I'm sure they would love the trade for Nickyman Worry. That'd be pretty great. I think I'm going to go Blake Miller. Screw it. I haven't seen this yet, but you explained the path for him to play. Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna go Blake Miller here. Roger Jones just has not been good.

No, obviously this is not. This is not the staff that drafted it. This staff is not going to have the patience. No, I don't think so. Chargers at 22. Obviously, guard is in play for them. Although the guys I like schematically, I think, are gone. This is a Mike McDaniel law.

Like, Caden Proctor cannot play guard in Mike McDaniel's scheme. So that's just to explain that process. That's one that doesn't fit. you're doubting him and now he's going to hop on ozemp get the 280 i know who i'm taking back to the best available this would be mcneal warren i think oh yeah they need a safety they need a safety yeah absolute record size toughness hits emmanuel mcnele warren and then hopefully i can get that guard when we do round two somebody somebody saying the trade down from the chargers we're not

doing trades we obviously did do a trade in this mock but for the most part we're not doing trains because we would be here for four hours instead of also like no offense the idea but who's sitting here and going i have to get to pick 22 yeah we can't always just very true you know appease one side of it that's the hard part of the draft eagles did how we do it again you ready for this one i'm seated omar gruber junior okay i'm here i'm serious about it no I am, I am serious about it. Because their wide receiver three right now is Darius Cooper. And after that, it's Britt and Cuez Watkins,

Johnny Wilson, and Danny Gray. Yeah. And all those guys are about to be wide receiver two when the AJ Brown trade happens. Correct. Yes. Britain Covey, wide receiver two. Hey, let's go. We always believe.

Fire me up. We all fire me the F up. Yeah, I'm taking Omar Cooper's a great pick here. Because Omar Cooper Jr. and Devante Smith are just two really savvy wide receivers. When such a variety of ways. Who were you talking? Who were you? Was it you who was talking to, were you talking to Pons?

Who was like? Pons thinks he's Devante Adams, basically. Yeah. Not to like sum it up in too simplicity of a term. But I had him go through Surat and Charlie Becker and Cooper. And when he got to Cooper, it was like, Devante Adams releases. And I'm like, oh, you really mean this. Yes.

Yeah. Yeah. Good callback. Philly, obviously, like, there's some long-term offensive line concerns for sure. We've done, we've done Moxware offensive lines an issue before. But think about this, too. Like, they brought back Grant Calcuttaire, yes, but they brought back Dallas Godter one-year deal for Dallas-Cotter. So, like, there's no, a year from now, you could be looking at a team that doesn't have Dallas

Goddor, doesn't have A.J. Brown. It's basically just Devante Smith at that point. And if Howie Roseman has been anything, he's been a general manager that has always tried to stay. ahead of whatever his biggest roster needs are, especially at positions that are as important as playmaker. So I, especially with them giving requal and 15 mil for one year,

I think they're perfectly fine going into next season with those corners there. The safety is it's Sidney Brown filling in for reblankenship who's no longer there before, no longer there. So like I could think about safety if Emmanuel McNeil Warren made it to them

but obviously he didn't. That's how we get to Omar Cooper Jr. All right, well, a nice little sniping action there. Although I have a totally adequate plan B here for the Browns at 24. I'm going to take Denzel Boston, big bodied wide receiver, good tracking, can climb the ladder, make plays for the quarterback. Denzel Boston is almost is starting to gravitate towards like a little underrated because nobody really talks about him in this draft and he's not ever included in the top

three receivers, but now Omar Cooper is getting more of that love in the second tier, which I understand. I think Boston's still a really, really good player that can line up just about everywhere as he did for Washington. And the Browns have to upgrade that room. I think it's a great fit. I mean, any wide receiver, I think it's a great fit because they basically need everything. Chicago at 25, when we say in Peter Woods, Chicago, I don't think he's what they need. They need a run stuffer. You think they need size and two-gapping ability. Yeah, yeah, especially after, I mean, they, they signed Neville Galamore, who is more of that, like, pass rushing interior defensive lineman. I mean, you got Grady Jarrett and Gervon Dexter.

I think it's D-Line, but I don't, I don't think that that's the fit there. Defensive tackle. Can we see defensive tackle, Tyler? I give the chat a lot of credit. They are pushing Zion Young hard. That is who I had, I believe, in my mock draft. You know who I actually think is the best pick for them here is Christian Miller? I mean, you won't get a pushback from me.

Does he go 25? I have no idea, but I think he is the best pick for them. The least talked about good player in the draft. 100%. Not to spoil the defensive tackle episode, which will be coming over the next week or so. But I like Christian Miller more than I like Cade McDonald. Interesting. I'm not there, but I,

think I like Christian Miller better than more household names. Man, I mean, he's just so, he's so clean. He's so strong. The hand uses is fantastic. He's great with his technique. Got great instincts for where the ball is going. Great feel for when to stack and shed. I think, I think he's, he is a stud.

Yeah, good player. Real good player. Yeah, let's take him. Let's take him for Chicago. Bears go, he's great. Go Christian Miller. The bills at 26, they have watched both Omar Cooper. and Denzel Boston go.

And I know they traded for DJ more. I still think they should keep adding wide receivers. But now I'm going to wait in this spot. Oh, man. Probably, well, they lost David Edwards in for agency, but this is tricky. Are they a Proctor at Guard team? Are they?

No, they took Maxwell Harrison last year, so they're not. I don't think they're McCoy. No. I know they signed Bradley Chubb, but I still think they need more pass rush. They also need more help at D-Tackle. If there was a nose here that made sense for them,

like if Caden McDonald was here, that would make sense. Right. Lead Hunter is the next guy that makes sense, and I don't know if he's going at 26. I don't think so. I don't think so either. Look, for as much as some of the tape has been nice for him, I don't think you can test the way that he tested

and go in the first round. I think you've got to be a better athlete than that. Right. This is the first real tough spot I've run into. Although. I mean, Caldric Falk fits them as an odd front team now. I feel like Bill's fans are going to riot in this spot. I don't know.

No, I don't know how much better they get for that, though. I'm not taking Jacob Rodriguez. I get it, but I just, I don't think that's happening. I do not think that's happening. They could be a Peter Woods team. They really could. Oh, yeah. They could be a Peter Wood team.

They would play a quicker defensive tackle like that with shorter arms disruptive when he's right. They kind of already have that in Ed Oliver, though, right? Like Peter Woods basically has to play all the Ed Oliver snaps because you can't put both those guys on the field at the same time. That would be my worry. It's a fair concern, especially if you think like Oliver is there for the long term, which you should be under his extension. and go IOL is interesting

like they lost David Edwards and they do need an interior offensive lineman but I mean do you think about the Angelo Ponds here like to play nickel? No, I think they're just going to ride it out with D. Alford.

Okay. Because you, I would I think they would take Avion Terrell if they went that route. But a lot of love for T.J. Parker in the chat. I think that's definitely possible

from a ski. fit and how the league likes his power profile could be I'll go t j parker the power profile you know he's going to bring a hard hat against the run and the fact is like they're not going to run back to joey bosa experiment again I get they got bradley chub hoping to get pass rush juice out of him but this would be more of their power rusher all right so the nineers are up now let's see they signed mike Evans oh man They traded for Otisadigizuo, which is a move that I really liked for them. Oh, savvy move.

Very savvy move. I signed Nate Hobbs. It brought in Drake Greenlaw. Oh, they just signed Christian Kirk, did they? So, spoiler alert, and I'm just shamelessly promoting this mock draft. This is the team that I think can take the Jermad McCoy risk. Oh, you think? Yeah.

Look at their corner room. I totally agree if you don't really. believe in Renardo Green that much. And what, has he done enough where you go like, yeah, with McCoy's talent, this is a defense that schematically, they like to have that true number one guy. Wait, can you see Kierke here?

No, he went to the Ravens. Ravens. He actually kind of like Caden Proctor for this team, especially with Trent Williams uncertainty. Yeah, man. Because they're going to have to answer that eventually. I think he'd play left guard or he play left tackle for you. And why not have them play together for a year and then have them kick out?

That would be pretty sick. Those two dudes next to each other would be absolutely hilarious. That's like the all off the bus team. It is. Yes. Yes. That'd be wild. So somebody's pointing out like would Proctor make sense for them as a team that

likes to run more mid and outside zone stuff? And I think that that's fair. Right. People were mentioned in Eonature, but I don't really, I don't think a janitor's a guard. I don't think he's a tackle. All right, let's go Germant McCoy. I haven't done this one yet.

So let's go Germant McCoy. That's interesting. If he makes it there, obviously this is somebody who I think is CB1 in this class. But just with the injury, where is he going to go? Right. You're up at Houston. The Texans, another team that's been proactive and trying to retool their offensive line. They have pick 38, I think, which is really nice if you want to think about interior for them.

there instead of here. So you don't have to panic pick as much on the offensive line. They need a little bit more beef in the middle. Of their defensive line? Yeah. Yeah, 100%. Like they brought back Rankin's as that veteran kind of guy. They don't have the beef because it's a scheme where it's so based on getting off the ball,

but you also do need somebody that can hold the fort. Ooh. Tell me. I mean, Peter Woods does fit. that's Peter Woods is a scheme fit. Yeah, he is. It's late enough in the draft. If there's anyone in the NFL that you think can get Peter Woods to back to what we thought of him over the summer, it's Domeko Ryan's.

I agree. And this is actually a, this is actually a scheme that where Peter Woods works. 100%. Peter Woods, the pick at 28. And then once again. You can't double him. You've got the two monster edge rushers. Yeah.

Yeah. That's pretty good there for the Texans. The Chiefs at 29. We had them trade up for Rubin Bain, right? Yes, we did. Yeah, we did. So you got 29, you got 40. Ooh, who are we going here for the Chiefs?

Jerome McCoy would have been nice. Would have been nice. I think they will probably think about receiver, but, you know, am I going to take Casey Keseepsio because he feels like he's been the Chiefs, what they've drafted already, what they've tried to chase over the last couple of years. Carostango is a great pickup for them on the interior defensive line.

You drafted Ruben Bain, so you've got that as well. Tonga and Bain on the same side is great. That's the goods. It's awesome. Yeah, that's the goods. Predictive mock here. So, Colton Hood spot? I feel like this is a Colton Hood spot.

Love this spot for Colton Hood. You've got Noel Williams, so I think that they're comfortable with playing on the outside. You have Christian Fulton as well, but I think Colton Hood can push for that starting spot. They sign Cater Coho to play in the nickel. I'd like a safety here, but I don't think there's a safety that I would take.

No. I mean, Halsey, I like enough to take, but I just don't think Halsey's going 29. So let's go Colton Hood. I think Colton Hood's much more of the projected first round type of a corner. I played a lot of press man most of his career until this past year when he was playing a lot more off coverage stuff. But yeah, so Colton Hood. Broncos at 30. I'm going to take Celtric Falk off the board of year and put him in that John Franklin Myers. role that they lost. Okay. I think this is a fit.

They lose JFM to Tennessee. He goes back to play with Robert Sala. We've always said Falk's film is much better than his numbers indicate. He's a younger player. He's gigantic. This is the front where you look at it and go, okay, they've actually used a player like this in a high level role. And it's more projectable.

The problem we get hung up on with Falk is projecting his role. This is a team where I don't think you have to be very, you don't have to close your eyes and imagine it too hard. For the Patriots of 31, I don't really have a safety need. It's one in one out with Byrd and Jalen Hawkins. I still think after the Draymont Jones signing that they could go like Gabe Accus here. Or any edge rusher that fits their DNA of edge rusher.

Because we already took Zion, right? No. Oh, no, Zion's there. Oh, man. I know. I have pretty big update to my edge rankings. We don't have to go on like a tangent here, but yeah, Zion, very, very good football player. I'd even potentially think about Malkai Lawrence because he's got juice to him.

Yep. I mean, he's the pass rush. They don't have a pass rusher like Malachi Lawrence. I know. They have Milton Williams and Christian Barmore on the inside, but people are saying O-line, like, yeah, they could go O-line, but that would be. They signed AV-T. Yeah, that would be more of a, that would be more of a long, term thing and you're a team coming off a Super Bowl year, man.

Them signing ABT to play guard is them telling you, they're going to run out Will Campbell at left tackle again. Yeah, for sure. Oh, for sure. And Jared Wilson will go play center. Ah, man. All right, uh, Zion or Malachi Lawrence? What do you think? Who's, who's, who's, who's more of a Patriot? Zion, but they, they need a Malachi Lawrence. Well, that doesn't help me. I know. That didn't give me anything. I just made it worse. I'm right back here. Oh, I did. If anything, I just made it much worse.

You made it worse! What's he cooking? Nothing! Nothing! He's burning down the house. Chat said Zion. Like heavy, yeah, you said screw the chat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. To defend me, I didn't read the chat. And even if I did, screw it. I think I just, I think, Malkyai Lawrence is the better peer pass rusher. I think he is the better pure pass rusher. I think Zion plays stronger.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. But I think that Malkai Lawrence is actually what the Patriots need. Yeah, and I think we've landed in the Malachi Lawrence is going in the first round. Yeah. Well, could, could, could. I don't know if that's a firm. You feel like it's a firm?

I think we're, you're starting to land there. I would have taken him at 32 if you didn't. All right. So you're taking him here? No, he's gone. Oh, oh, you're saying, sorry, Lawrence, Zion, sorry, sorry. Yeah, thanks for ruining it. So you can't take him here.

No. No, not at all. Yeah, you're really smoked. You absolutely, you ruined the entire draft. Good. I don't even want to do the second round. I didn't have fun either. Oh, man.

Okay, Seattle, Super Bowl champions. Seattle. Ah, man, Avion Terrell, right. I think. Although, is this like as seamless fit as everybody's saying? Yeah. Okay. They lost Rik Wallin and Free Agency.

They did do a good job of bringing back Josh Job. They lost Kobe Bryant at safety. They lost a lot. Yeah. So this secondary will look a little different. Let's get Avion Terrell. I am typically lower on him than consensus, but Mike McDonald's. It's like this is the kind of DB that he typically loves, that you can move around.

Aviontrell is an absolute dog. He's an absolute dog. He defends to run really well. He'll force fumbles. I think he's super fice in coverage. He's great in off coverage and I think that he doesn't get enough credit for what he could be as a press man defender either. Obviously he gives up a little bit because of the size overall.

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We are halfway through this mock draft, and like we said at the beginning of the show, we know we've had a lot of people who joined as a midway through and a little bit later. We are on the campaign to 75,000 subscribers here on the channel. We would love for you guys to be a part of the addicts. If you've enjoyed this show or anything that we have done here, it is a free an easy way to help support the show. We appreciate you guys. Everybody who subbed, everybody who will sub,

thanks for everything that you do. And thanks for making the addicts so much fun to do shows like this with. So I am up with the Jets now at 33. Yes, you are. Rvel Reese, Jordan Tyson. Pretty good draft. Not bad. This is the real like, are you going to do it?

No. Definitively, no. No. Good for you. Good for you for taking a stance on something. Not like, no, I didn't mean it like that. Wait a second. Hold on. I didn't mean it like you're a fence rider.

Like I'm some guppy man? I didn't mean it that way. What is this? I didn't mean. It just, it was poor wording by me. Sure. Yeah. You really find out on a podcast folks.

I've been kind of like twisting the knife a little bit on you. You really find out on a podcast. Who do we have a corner? Colton Hood went Colton Hood's the guy because they play a lot of man He plays a lot of man coverage for Tennessee I like Brandon C-Say though I really don't honestly

It's one of those ones like I'm trying to find how we got to this combo with him On day two as a developmental corner I get it But he is far away right now Oh buddy guess what It's round two Yeah Yeah you're right

It's the first pick of round two How about that? If I Trevor limited backbones Okay well then I'm thinking about the Angela Ponce That I'm thinking corner Yeah Because right now you have Nashon right

You have Brandon Stevens You have Jarvis Brownley Right And Azaria Thomas And he's R a Thomas right You know the tricky thing with Pons is who I love I love for them All right go on

Minka at his presser was hinting at playing Nickel And I was like, oh, I thought you'd be playing more traditional safety here because the Jets don't have any. So that was like a little weird quote. I'm, I've now run out of like team needs to go with. I'm sorry. I really didn't help at all. Yeah.

No, you made this way worse. I made this actually really bad. Can I see the overall board? I don't think they're drafting offensive line. Not this early. They will eventually. I mean, I suppose they could draft Stowers. Oh, man, that would...

But I don't think they're going to. Yeah, I don't think so either. I'm taking DeAngelo Ponds. Screw it. This is your pick, dude. Do it. Yeah, I'm taking DeAngelo Pond. His personality is exactly what they look for.

I genuinely believe that he can play outside as well. I genuinely think. Well, if you believe that, then this makes a ton of sense. Yes, yes. I think he can play slot and I think he can play outside for you. He's small. Okay. Look at you taking a stand.

Look at this guy. I'm going to crash out. I hate this show. I didn't even want to do it. Yeah. Oh, man. Cardinals 34. See, we set up the perfect scenario.

Couldn't be better. Couldn't have been better. Is that because... Because you get to draft Caden Proctor, Maxionature, or Caleb Lomo. You get your full pick. That's exactly right. I could have been a real villain here and taken Ty Simpson,

but I'm not passing on Caden Proctor. Oh, my Lord in heaven, no. I'm not. Yeah. Yeah, Caden Proctor. That would have been your absolute villain art. That would have been the worst version of me. No, I actually really like the idea

of Ty Simpson in the slot for the Cardinals. I really do. I'm not going to do it because Proctor's here and I don't know how that happened and it's great for them. But I think this is one of the key landing spots for Simpson in this draft is 34 to errors. could be. Well, let's go Proctor.

And I promise I'm going to try to actually like, instead of just confuse and elongate every pick process, I'll try to actually. Yeah, we'll be obviously quicker for the second round. I've just been, every time you have a good idea, I'm like, but what about this? So the Titans, yeah, you're pulling a me on me. Yep. The Titans went with Jeremiah Love, I believe at number four. They brought back Calvin Ridley.

This is the Judarian Price slot. You think he goes this high? I'm okay. Just bear him with Jeremiah. Oh, yeah. I was so taken back that you brought his name up at the beginning of the second round that I didn't realize that you were being an absolute ass hat at the highest order. And because we picked Jeremiah.

Could you imagine though that happens? Jerry Price at his draft party are like, what the hell? Come on. Again. Kicking away from this guy. Oh, that'd be so good. Peter's wondering if I'm going to take Eli Stowers to Vegas. If you keep tempting me, I will.

I guess they... No, no, no, they're not going to use Nick. They're not going to drive to anybody in the secondary. Oh, is this a Jacob Rodriguez spot? Yes. Because they got Cedric Gray, who had a lot of tackles last year. They have Cody Barton. I think I'm going to go Jacob Rodriguez.

I think, I think, I think. Oh, wait, is there another edge rusher left? Like, is Zion Young here? Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Zion Young. This is Zion Young pick. Okay. Yep, yep, yep.

Because he is somebody who can play the line scrimmage super strong. And you can say to yourself, like, oh, he's very similar to Jermaine Johnson. Yes, but I feel like what Robert Saul wants to do, you have to be able to have guys that can just stay on the field with those with four down, be able to defend the run, but also get after the pass. I think that's exactly that. Yeah, that makes a ton of sense. especially if, you know, Jermaine Johnson feels like a little bit more of a coin flip kind of move.

Okay, the Raiders, Fernando Mendoza, that won, need another pass catcher. Although, Trev, I kind of lean a manual pregnon here for their offensive line.

I understand that... You also have Caleb Lomo here, by the way. To play right tackle in this situation, which he told me he's training at both. Yeah, I'm not worried about guys. Good call. Because you have Colton Miller at left tackle. He brought Linderbaum to play center.

They're going to keep Jackson Powers Johnson at guard. Right. Lost Parm and free agency. That's where I was thinking of Pregnon. Let's go Lomo and play him at right tackle. I think he could do it, by the way. I don't think this is one of those imaginary. Like, yeah, just flip him over.

I agree. You got to keep Mendoza upright, too. It's so pivotal with him. He's been practicing wiping his ass with his opposite hand as offensive line. And it'll be good at right tackle. They love that line. He's been practicing. The Giants, who do we have the Giants going with in the first round?

Oh, Cardinal Tate. Okay. Oh, man, we got some good players on the board. Yeah. It goes to show you that. You actually, like this guy can't fall to there. Well, some people have to. Yeah.

Emmanuel Pregnod? Probably? Yeah, they whiffed on signing a big-time guard. Yeah, it's John Runyon. I mean, for goodness sake, they brought back Evan Neal. Yes. That was a surprise to say the least. Or is this, Jacob Rodriguez.

They have Tremaine Edmonds, but they need another linebacker. They do, yeah, but they need another lineback. Rodriguez is actually, like, I know you've been saying it every slot, but for the last four, but this. This is where we're at. Right. I think that this makes sense. Because what was, do we know Micaheaden's deal? One year.

It was like a total hold of four. Yeah. Million dollar deal. Yeah, Jake Rodriguez. Yep. I think you make sense. Texans at 38. This was kind of my dream getting pregnon here.

Although I would have been happy with Basantas as well. I just really wanted a guard at 38 so I could take talent at 28. Pregnon at guard for their remade offensive line. And now as a Texans fan, you feel so much better about a unit that struggled last year. Dude, I forgot about Chase Bissontas. We got to get him off the board soon. What could get him off the board here? Who did we pick for the Browns?

What did we got? Monroe Freeling, Denzel, Boston. Chase Bessonthas, come on down? I don't know. Do we think that they would do that? They've dumped so many resources now to the offensive line. Yeah. But are they good?

That's the question. It depends what you think of Tevin Jenkins. Not a lot at this point. I wish I could think more highly of him. I know. He's not a guy you can rely on anymore. I don't think you're off-bait. Like, there's really no limits of how many resources you could stack into.

But at some point, they do need to build out the rest of the offense. You can argue another receiver here, honestly. I'm looking at the receiver room now. Isaiah Bond, Malachi Corley, Jammari Thrash, Cedric Tillman, Jerry Judy. They lost David Njoku. obviously like quarterback kind of like

oh man we totally overlooked this could be a Simpson this could be a Simpson spot it could be a Simpson spot yeah how would they do it though I mean Todd Munkin is is coming in

brand new for sure but like do we have some meddling from the front office here the front office and the owners who brought who brought in Dishon Watson are they seriously like hey you know what we have we have to Sean Watson we got to Sean Watson like I really do wonder if they they they think that yeah that's fair I really don't know what to do here it's a totally fair argument to take Simpson

somebody said stowers like stowers and Fannin no they mean no same spots no I'm gonna go to Ty Simpson just okay I'll take it I'll take the flyer the quarterback. The Chiefs at 40 have done really well so far. Trade it up for Rubin Bain. Got Colton Hood at 29, who got this Chiefs draft is awesome. Now let's go wide receiver. The floor play is Bernard.

The let's get back to pushing the ball downfield pick is Bell or Brazel. You don't think Casey? I don't think Casey is like explosive vertically. Oh, okay. I think he's more lateral agility. Stowers would also be interesting. Depending on what they think of Jared Wiley and who's the other tight end that they have?

Travis Kelsey. No, but obviously other than him. Noah Gray, it's Jared Wiley and then who's the other one? Oh, Jake Brinney's tool they also have on the roster. The only hesitation I have with Casey Concepcion for them is they've kind of tried to do this twice already. Right. They did it with Rishi Rice, who obviously his situation is up in the air.

And then they did it with Xavier Worthy. And Xavier Worthy has had huge moments for them, but also hasn't really been consistent. Do they try to go after the thing that they have been searching for over the last couple of seasons? Because when it's worked, it's been great for them. But are they sick of it? I don't know. I can't answer that question. Right.

And I see people saying, like, he could play the Rishi role. He basically plays the Rishie role. Right. That's what you would use him for. I don't view him as like this big vertical threat that I think people make him out to be. He did smoke, C-Say, over the top. I'll give him that. I'm going to go with Chris Bell here.

I'm going to pull a Trevor here and kind of swerve. Nice. Big-bodied, explosive, over-the-top receiver. And they could be patient right now, because Mahomes is working his way back as well as is Chris Bell. Cincinnati, 41. Who did they go within the first round? Oh, they got Caleb Downs.

Best dream scenario. So this is Caleb Banks. This is Caleb Banks. Have you taken him before he got hurt at 10 to the Bengals? Yeah, yes. There you go, you get the injury discount. Yeah, I think that's easy. I love it.

I'm with you. Saints at 42, Mansellor Delane was the pick in the top 10. I'm going to go with Concepcion for them. Okay, sure. I see that. They need a legitimate number two receiver. I know he had a little bit of a procedure today. I don't think it's going to make him fall beyond this kind of range.

But I don't think he's a lock for the first round anymore. Cassius Howe should be off the board, but does it feel redundant now that they've signed Josh U.J. and David O'Jabo? And you have chop there. And you have chop there. But two outside linebacker pass rushers, like, that's okay. What were the deals of those guys? Let me see.

Um Josh Uche one year deal Do you have no job of one year deal? Yeah, let's get, let's get, let's get, let's get, um, cash is out off the board. Cash yourself out. Jets at 44. You had them take pawns at 33. I did.

Nice. They got Reese at two and Tyson at 16. They've really hammered a lot of needs here. It's almost boring how often I do this. But I'm going to take AJ Halsey. They, This team had no interceptions last year. Pencil him in, baby.

AJ Alsey playmaking safety. Big hitter, too. Ravens at 45. Who would go with the Ravens? Cedic. Kenyon Cadeek. Which I got like the duality of man. Oh, Chase Besantus is here.

Oh, there you go. Yeah, this couldn't work out better for them. Right? I mean. Or, yeah. That's... He steps in at left guard easily for Andrew Borees. Then you also sign.

John Simpson. And you probably have to get a center somewhere. But. Yeah, but you could do that later. Because there's not a receiver that's worth it left. Yeah, no, I'm not overthinking this. Give me Chase Fisandas. Bucks of 46 got Venga Yawane at 15 by the work of Trevor over here.

I like this pick a lot. Let's look at the edge rushers. We need pass rush people. Please. Somebody get after the freaking quarterback. I'm going to take R Mason Thomas here. Nice. I know he's a little smaller than what Bulls usually plays.

Can't spell Buccaneer without R, baby. You can't spell Buccaneer without R. Our Tampa Bay Bucks are Mason Thomas. Get off the ball and go. 20.3% passers, 20 percentage. For the Colts at 47, now they just lost Braden Smith, so it's easy one-in-one out with Maxionature. Interesting.

I think they have Jalen Travis and Jail and Travis was a crazy athlete if I remember correctly. Yeah, it's like the size of a house too. Yeah, Jelan Travis was Uh

Arr Mason Thomas. Oh, that's good. Nice. Yeah, people, okay, somebody for the Colts in the chat said they have they have Travis who they love. I thought that they loved him because he is six. A little under six eight, I think.

He's his height. He is just under six eight. Yeah, three 40. And he tested really well athletically. So I guess they're okay with letting Braden Smith walk and letting him play. They lost Nick Cross. Keep that in mind. They did.

But who am I getting at safety? I'm not going to draft Kamari Ramsey yet. Is Lee Hunter a sneaky pick here for them? because it felt like their interior defensive line was not good, especially when they were going to the injuries with their guys. I don't think that's crazy. I feel like Lee Hunter could be the pick. Because at corner, they have Traverius Ward,

they've got sauce, they've got Kenny Moore. They could go wide receiver. I just may, maybe Jeremy Bernard. I mean, you have Downs, Pearson, Warren. Yeah. I'm gonna go Lee Hunter. Give me Lee Hunter. Okay.

Give me a little Lee Hunter here. God, that screwed you up for the Falcons. Sorry. No, that's... I mean, the Falcons currently have Rookeroro playing nose tackle, which is horrendous. I mean, and I don't even think that Rook's a bad player. No, it's just not where you play him.

You're trying to get, you're trying to play a guy who showed up at the Combine sub 300 to play nose tackle in an odd front for you. Yeah, but there's always a backup plan. Let's look at the D-Tackles. I'm assuming I'm going to take big citrus here. Yeah. Big citrice.

Citrice. It's either big citrus or if I go wide receiver, do I try to get some juice over the top with brazzle? Shoot, I would think that you'd maybe, well, who'd you pick for? Oh, no, this is a no pick. That's the problem with this team. You have to be. Right, right, right, right.

linebacker also kind of They lost Ellis Yeah You kind of have to accept with the The Falcons You're just not going to be able to fix everything you want to fix No, it's very true I think it's very true

Let's go Brazel All right Chris Brasel it is Hold on one second Trying to make sure that my camera's Going to work Yeah, it works Okay, we're good

Minnesota Vikings, you went Caden McDonald. Yeah, the McPounder. The McPounder. Quarter McPounder with cheese. Oh, man. Got to get a running back here, right? No, you can get it running back at any time. I'm taking...

Such a PFF guy. It's insane. I'm taking Eli Stowers here for the Vikings. Okay. Because they redid T.J. Hawkins' deal to where he's a free agent after this season. They have the inline blocking guy in Josh. Oliver, but they're going to need a long-term receiving option at tight end. I already mentioned that I don't know how much longer Jordan Addison's going to be

a mainstay of this team. Stowers then gives you the receiving threat as well. So with you going McDonald in the first round, I'll go Stowers here because I think that he helps both at the future of tight end needs that they have and immediately a wide receiver. All right. Lions. This is Yonitcher, right? Oh, because we didn't go O-line for them, yes.

No, no. Yeah. So you get to move Penny. Sewell to left tackle or you get the Yanitur to play right. Yeah. If you're like convinced that Sewell's okay flipping over and he's the kind of athlete that you think would be okay, then you capitalize on Ehanature being here. Yeah.

Messador and Ehanature to the lines. Who would the Panthers take? Do they give him lemon? Lemon? Yeah, I give him a kind of lemon. Is this time for your, well, no, I don't think Sam Hecht is a scheme fit with them. Connor Lewis. Conor Lewis is the scheme fit at center.

I think we took Connor. Lou in the PFF mock that we did. Oh. Earlier. Because I think it's a good, I think it's a good pick. Nobody does more mocks than this guy. Yeah, unfortunately. No, I bet there's, I bet there's people out there that do more mocks than me, which is, I salute you.

You're like 98 percentile, though. I'll give you that. Probably 98th percentile, yeah. Jake Galdet's interesting here. Devin Lloyd and Jake Galdi, I mean, I think Devin Lloyd's presence gives Goldie to the ability to play that sort of off ball or on ball type of hybrid role. I don't hate that. I don't think they'll go wide receiver.

I don't think they'll go safety. Are there any defensive tackles? I don't think there's a defensive tackle there. Yeah, somebody said Keontek, Scott, too, but it kind of just depends on what they think of Shawson, Wade. But I do like the idea of Keontek, Scott. That's definitely that attitude kind of piece in their defense. I'll take Scott, sure.

give me Kianti Scott, who I think he's talented enough to be talked about in the top 50, and you get him just outside of it here. One of the best run defending secondary players in the entire country this past season. Look, he'll struggle in certain man coverage situations, but he was incredible this year for Miami. So I'll go with him to hopefully continue to boost that run defense. Green Bay of 52, I like Jake Golda in the spot a lot. Okay.

Big, can run long, strides to cover turf, has played multiple spots at linebacker. Jake Golday with Edron Cooper. Let's roll. I know they got Zaire Franklin as well, but he's kind of a declining player right now. I would look to get. I would agree with that. I would look to stay young here.

Colts or sorry, the Steelers. I was looking at the wrong team. Have a cold step chart up. Blake Miller in the first round. See, I mean, if you don't believe in Roman Wilson, Jeremy Bernard all of a sudden makes this a really, really nice wide receiver trio. He does. But is Michael Pittman going to do a lot of the things that he would do? I don't know.

I don't know the answer to that. I need to actually see it play out. I feel like Jeremy could play from the slot. Definitely. They do need slot corner pretty bad. So I mean, the chat is saying that. You have some of these. The bell also, I think, makes sense for them.

him. He would give you some juice. You know who's an underrated idea here is trading Stukes? I was just going to say there's safeties that play the slot. Stooges is that guy. And he might give you some of that strong safety flexibility with Jalen. And unlike his teammate, he tackles, which the Steelers would, that'd be non-negotiable. I'll go Stukes here to play the slot here for the Steelers. Yeah. Blake Miller and Trading Stoops.

Eagles at 54. Omar Cooper at 23. Yeah, yeah, brother. What's left of this tackle class right now? Oh, man. Not much. No. Not much?

I mean, no. Dunker is playing guard at the next level. I agree. Do they just, they didn't get Jalen Phillips back? No. So you could go ACUS here. I would go ACUS. I think it's a fit for them.

Yeah, unless there's a safety here that you like instead of Sydney Brown. Like, don't love. where I think I can get that. The Eagles have the Jets third rounders, so they pick again at the top of the third round. Ooh, nice. So I would take, I would take Accus here who should not make it to the third round.

Okay. Chargers, who did we go with the Chargers at? Oh, I mean you McNeil Warren. So Dunker, I think, is the obvious pick here for them. Scheme fit. Total scheme fit with McDaniel. Is there a DTE left that would tempt me? I don't think there is.

Big Citrus. Ah, yeah. He'd be the kind of guy. No, I think you're waiting at that point. Like, if you're the Chargers, because the Chargers have a crap ton of picks, don't they? They have... No, they don't. They actually have...

Absolutely none. I was trying to have any... Thinking of them last year. They don't have any picks at all. Yeah, they actually probably have the least amount of picks of any team in the NFL. Good job, Treb. That's great. Yeah, I'm going to go to Jenny Sunker.

I think he's playing guard at the next level. I think he's a plug-and-play type of a player at that guard spot, and he's a scheme fit being such a good zone-blocking offensive linemen. Jacksonville at 56. Let's look at the linebackers here. Expecting Travis Hunter to play a lot of corner. Yeah. I know a lot of people will like...

Oh, Ryan's at Hilton for the Jack. I was looking at that. That's interesting. I haven't thought of that yet. I actually really liked that. and attacking interior defensive lineman. And they basically had no pass rush outside of Josh Heinz Allen last year. Yeah, they got to be hoping for, you know, obviously more from them and Trayvon.

I like that. That's a really good call. It's a really, really good call. I do agree with you, Hovlin, that they should trade down, but we're not going to do that in this mock. If they could, they lost Luke Fortner. No, let's go Halton. Let's get a disrupt.

interior defensive lineman. I like it. I think it's early-ish for Halley. It is, but this is the place where it's... Yeah, I agree. I agree. Somebody says Safeway still sucks. Safeway is never going to recover from this.

I know. Unless they sponsor the show in which case, it's their only way back. Get your uncrustables at my favorite grocery. Seameless. Okay. Chicago Bears. Oh yeah, they got two picks here.

They got 57 and 60. Good living. So he took Christian Miller, which I think addresses like their biggest need. One of these picks is going to be Sam Hect. Okay, go off. And then what's the other one going to be? Connor Liu, battle for center.

Yeah, yeah. There's nothing like competition, Bella's. Lou comes in on the gap scheme. Hecht comes in on wide. zone. Dude, what an incredible setup that would be. Could you imagine watching that live? Yeah, we wrote a dual center system.

So, I actually am thinking about, Chad, am I crazy here, chat? Tell me if I'm crazy chat. I'm thinking about like C-Saysay or Chris Johnson. Because you have Jalen Johnson, and I like Tyreek, but Tyreek Stevenson has been,

it feels like pretty up and down for them. Is he coming in your last year of his deal? He crazy. I mean, I would think you need a strong safety for this team, right? Tyreek is in the last year of his deal, Tyreeks Stevenson. Yeah,

but what strong safety am I going to get? I'm not looking at the boards. I don't know. Kamari Ramsey's the only one who's left. Zakiwit is probably the next one that I would take. Wheatley is the next one. But he's a free safety. He could do both,

but I get what you're saying. I'm not drafting. No, it's too early. It's too early. No, I think, yeah, you're on to something with some corner depth. There's not really an edge rusher that I would, eh, no. It may be Derek Moore.

Like, I like Derek more. Man, do I like Derek more than I like Brandon C-Say? No. All right, I'm going to go Brandon C-Say, and then I'm going to take Sam-Hack. Unless you snipe one of them from here. I won't. Okay. I won't do that to you.

Great. Although I should do that to you. Peter said anything but a CB. Well, Peter. Niners on the clock at, I'm going to draft Chris Johnson at 60. Did you have them take McCoy? Only one way to find out.

You did have them take McCoy. I did. Oh, man. Let's go back to the... I just like, for fun, want to take Jeremy Bernard and revamp this receiver room. Joanne Jennings is,

we're assuming, is leaving in free agency. Yeah, so is Brandon Ayuk. They have Mike Evans. They have Ricky Pearsall. Pearsall's hurt a lot. They just signed Chris. and Kirk though. As like a stop gap.

That's like they're Kendrick Bourne this year. Right, right, right, right, right. I'm going to take Jeremy Bernard. Okay. Let him catch 100 passes in Kyle Shanahan's offense. I just realized I'm not the one who picks again for Chicago, which is pretty funny. Can you see your picks for Houston, Chef? You know, it's hilarious here.

Thank you, Chef. Actually, maybe not. Well, now I want to know what would be hilarious here. I was going to say, you could argue you should stay. Sam Hect here after you were like, don't take him until 60. But if you actually want to party, you should take Judarian Price. I just don't know if you're up for actual partying. Him and Monty.

I'm going to take Mike Washington. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Took your idea and then absolutely just completely revamped it. Yep. Left you in an absolute speechless state.

Yeah, I was pitching UPS. Peter doesn't want Sam Hect here? And you created Amazon. Dude. I don't know what Peter wants. Peter, there's no pleasing you. Bears, terrible draft. Let's look at safety just for fun, even though I just did this.

I mean, you can draft Camari. Camari plays slot. He plays safety. Like, you could. Yeah, the chat's accusing you of hating the bears. Yeah, because I haven't done. 8 billion bears mock drafts. Who did they take before C-Say?

You check on your picks. Kirsten Miller. No, that was you. You've made both picks. Good picks. Good players. What are you guys? Not like good players?

You want to pick bad players? Next time I'll pick bad players. All right. I think I have. I hear you guys. I'll take bad players. I have to take an edge player here. Derek Moore makes the most sense for them.

He does. And that's a good pick. I take a pick. Let's go Derek Moore. Pass rush for their third down package, like NASCAR package, kind of. Get on the field, pin your ears back and go. Yeah, and then they pick at 89.

I think you get a safety at 89. I would look at Bud Clark for them in that spot. Mm. But Clark is good. Maybe Zaki makes it there. I don't think he does, but. Spencer Fano for the Rams. Oh, is this wide receiver?

might be I think it could be there's a chance oh man I have a one that I love here who Skyler yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

let's take Skylar Bell get them off the board 61 Broncos at 62 I'm not gonna do it but I do not like this running back room at all but they're not gonna take one here

no not after the not after the JK contract no they're not I just want I just wanted to get that off my chest that I'd prefer Darien Price over anybody on this raw I'm not going to do it though. Did you never take stowers after threatening like 40 times to take stowers?

No, it took stowers. I took them to the Vikings. Oh, Chad was good pick. Chad was. Yeah, it was a great pick. Chad was acting up. Oh, it was a great pick. No, it was a great pick.

Hmm. I would like some juice here at wide receiver. They kind of have like a bunch of in theory juice. I know. And none of them play to it consistently. Like you could take Bryce Lance and I think that it would be. It would, it could, it could make sense for them. I also kind of like Zachariah for them.

Oh. I'm gonna take Zachariah branch, yeah. Really? Yeah, I like him for them. The Joker player. It's just the most ridiculous thing that just kept happening last year. I mean, he is. I mean, like no trolling.

He kind of is the, he's the guy to get the ball in his hands. Returner, slot, jet sweeps. What do we have for, who do we take? okay Lawrence oh yeah good pick good pick hey good pick chat good pick nice job chat worst mock ever hey that'd be an accomplishment if it was the worst one ever hey they give away battles for that too I got a lot of them could potentially go linebacker but I think they're all right there I don't think they'd go with more of a nose tackle type maybe tight end but they did just sign Julian Hill

They lost Austin Hoover, but they signed him. Well, wide receivers do we have? Oh, it is, it's, it's, it's Bryce Lance. Former first router Malkai Fields. Al-Qaeda Fields. You just get the Malachi's. Man, what an interesting team. They're just in like this, it's kind of hard to evaluate the Patriots because I feel like

a lot of them played to their highest potential last year. No, they did. But I'm saying like even independent of the win-loss record, like a lot of, lot of these players play to their highest potential. Is that just who they are now with this coaching staff? Like, is that just who they are under Josh McDaniels and Mike Frable? It's a credit to them, right? For sure.

Like getting a great season out of Jaylen Hawkins and Kyris Tonga and those guys get to go get, you know, guys that get paid elsewhere. Yeah, can you show me, linebacker? I think I might go Anthony Hill here, which is, I think this is the range for Anthony Hill. I think some people think he's a lot higher, like a top second round guy. I think he's more of a fringe,

second to third round linebacker type. But he at least gives you speed at the linebacker level where you've got Spillane to be able to play in the box, but I don't really see another linebacker that I feel good about playing in space. So I'm going to go Anthony Hill Jr. from Texas, who I think he made that will a linebacker for him. Well, the last pick is the easiest pick of the entire mock draft besides Fernando Mendoza.

And that's Shadari in Price to Seattle. Nice. Nice. Way to bring it home. Way to take it home, brother. If Seattle gets Judarian Price with the last pick of the second round, that is damn good business, folks. There we go, folks. Two hours, two rounds just for you guys.

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Oh, Thursday, because the episode will be Thursday, not Wednesday. We're going to let the mock chat episode breathe a little bit. But Thursday, we are for the first time in two years doing a safety. That's crazy. Yeah, I know. I know. And this is a good one, man. I had a lot of fun watching ranking this group.

Been too long. Yes. So we are finally getting back to safeties. We will rank all the safeties. not all of the safeties, but we rank a lot of the safeties that we have here in this draft. The next week, I think we'll probably do

defensive tackles. We're also going to get into the CoLab mock draft series. So make sure you guys give your suggestions of who you would like to see in the CoLab mock draft series. We've been doing it the last couple of years. It's so much fun to have some fresh faces, some new voices here on this show. So make sure that you let us know which people that you would like to

hear on the show. Also, we solidified this as a staff. We got together and the seven round, Mock Draft is going to be April 14th. So that is a Tuesday. We are going to do the seven round marathon charity stream. Last year it was a seven round stream. So what we're going to try to do is we're going to see what it's like doing that on a weekday versus a weekend because we know that you guys enjoyed that so much.

And to be honest, the most fun part about that marathon stream is the chat. So we go back and forth with you guys for seven straight hours as we go through every single pick that a mock draft can possibly handle. And we're going to try it on a Tuesday. So we're going to go live at noon Eastern on April 14th for that charity stream. We would love for you guys to be a part of it. So we're just letting you plan ahead of time. We'll get with you guys earlier about what the charities are going to,

which charities we're going to represent this year. I don't know yet. Be sure to solidify that. But yes, that will be, that will be, that will be when we do the marathon mock. Connor, anything else before we get out of here? No, I will write personal notes of absence for anybody that wants to take off for the charity mock draft stream.

If you have class or if you have a boss and you want a handwritten note, I will write you one. I don't know if it will mean anything to them, but I will write you one with my contact for them to contact me to make sure that you really are skipping class or work to watch a live mock draft stream where every last super chat dollar goes to two different charities. Yes, yes, yes.

It's, we had so much fun on last year's show. We can't wait for it again. It's going to be great. It's going to be jam-packed with. Obviously, you guys in the chat with guests that we get throughout the marathon episode. And so it's a great time. So hopefully you guys can join us for that. I kind of had one more thing.

What was it? What was the one more thing? Oh, God. Blue Chip? Yeah, I mean, shout it to everybody who watched the the latest episode of the Blue Chip Committee, but that wasn't it. What was it?

I don't know. I'm going to forget the second we get off the show, and it's going to piss me off. I don't know. I got nothing. I got nothing. For The Chef, producing the show behind the scenes, for Connor Sikkimus saying,

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