I’m guessing you don’t know. The Browns did actually trade down 3 spots from 2nd overall but instead of taking Sanders took Mason Graham.
Mike Florio argued that Sanders should return to college for another year. It’s technically against the rules, but Florio argued it’s worth it to test that since other suits have found that NCAA rules violate federal antitrust laws.
It would give him a chance to show he can succeed in a program under someone other than his father, and he’d supposedly make more in a single year of NIL at college than in four years of a 5th-round rookie contract.
Washington only had 5 picks in this draft, only 3 in the first four rounds. They got a starting RT or G and future LT in Conerly Jr., a CB in Try Amos to play opposite Lattimore outside and move Mike Sainristil inside to the slot, and picked up Jaylin Lane to compete with Luke McCaffrey for the starting WR3/slot receiver spot.
The 4th round was loaded with great player names. Cam Skattebo, Woody Marks, Billy Bowman Jr, Gunnar Helm, Malachi Moore, Ruben Hyppolite II, Tonka Hemingway.
I’ve never heard of this kind of thing before.
Grey Zabel, the guard that Seattle drafted in the first round, was the guy who called Mason Richman, Seattle’s final draft pick and future teammate on the line. Weird but kind of cool.
How they address run defense is going to be interesting to watch.
Cam Skattebo was a lot of fun to watch in college. If he’s effective at all he’s going to be a fan favorite
Agreed, I ended a friendship immediately when a so-called friend pranked me with a fake phone job call when I was DESPERATE for a job years ago. Even thinking about it today makes me furious
I give my Giants a solid A for this draft. I can’t remember that ever happening. Dart is the big question but they got their potential quarterback of the future for basically the 99th pick. I don’t quite understand them going for another DL for their 3rd pick instead of a more needed position but I’m ok with who they picked. Over all a good draft.
I don’t think you can give the Giants an A solely because of that Dart pick. He’s a really dubious first round QB and the Giants burned draft capital to move back up to get him. Considering how long it took for another QB to come off the board there’s a high chance that they could have stayed put and taken him in the second.
Also, lots of the glazing the Giants are getting comes from Carter who a lot of people have as the best player in this draft. While he may well be that, in any other draft he’s probably getting picked in the 5-10 range. The Giants didn’t do anything wrong, but just having a top 3 pick in this pathetic class is a demerit.
The NFL estimates that the draft had roughly 600,000 attendees, more than twice the 250,000 which they had initially projected.
(Note that the count is across the three days, and a given person who attended multiple days would be counted once for each day attended.)
While the overall attendance wasn’t nearly as big as last year, in Detroit (estimated at 775,000 across three days), Green Bay tied with Nashville (2019) for the second-largest draft attendance since the league moved the event out of New York.
The 99th pick and a 3rd round next year? That’s not a lot of draft capital.
It’s 3 day 2 picks for one player who almost certainly wasn’t worth that pick. He could have been had at 34. You can argue that he’s a good prospect, but you simply can’t award an A grade when a team lights 2 3rd round picks on fire.
Is that paid attendance, or do you get in for free?
It was free admission for most people*, but apparently you had to obtain a (free) pass from the NFL, and have the QR code from the pass scanned, in order to get through the gates. So, even though it was free, there was apparently still a “turnstile count.”
*- there were also apparently some premium tickets, of which a limited number may have been put up for sale to the general public.
Trading back into the first gives the team a fifth year of the cheap rookie contract. You only get four years if you draft them in the second round.
I’m also skeptical that Cleveland wouldn’t have taken Dart with 2.01. Just because the third QB wasn’t taken until much later doesn’t mean Dart would have also not been taken until much later. He was apparently the consensus #2 QB among teams that needed a QB.
That said, Dart is far from a sure thing and grading the Giants draft as an A seems like a reach. I didn’t hate their draft but I would probably grade it at like a B.
For what it’s worth, these guys gave them an A-
I feel the Giants needed much more help on the offensive line than they got out of this draft. It’s been a train wreck for over a decade, and I feel like I’m in bizarro world when none of these draft grades mention that at all.
I really like that the Browns did in the draft. I imagine Shadeur either gets humbled and works harder or is out on the league soon. How could Deon possibly be a diva and a distraction over a fifth round pick? Fifth round picks don’t even always make their team. They have absolutely no leverage or importance. I know the Browns didn’t plan for this because it requires every other team to pass him up a bunch of times but at some point they decided the gamble is worth it.
It’s clear that what’s his face, the 3rd round QB was who they really wanted all along. They used a lot of their meetings and scouting visits on that kid. He’s definitely the favored QB over Sanders.
Zero problem drafting 2qbs. If you don’t have one you need to find one, and the Browns are dysfunctional for another year at least. Give it a spin and see if you hit talent. If not, you’ve got 2 firsts next year and at least one should be pretty high.
If with QB is any good, this is the sort of move that brings you back from this whole clusterfuck.
Dillon Gabriel from Oregon.
While there is certainly a huge gap in a total outsider’s perception and expectations and the reality of the actual players experience, and fans and pundits almost certainly make a bigger deal out of draft position than the actual players do, but 50 spots between Gabriel and Sanders is not an insignificant difference in a draft of 257 total players. It doesn’t necessarily mean anything on the field or in the front office’s perception of either player, but there’s still got to be some awkwardness in that QB room come rookie minicamp.