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1. QB, Fresno State, Derek Carr - Consistently puts up ridiculous numbers. Prolific passer, not a game manager. Boom or bust type pick. Worth the risk for a potential franchise QB. Thing that most gives me confidence in taking him is his accuracy. He is accurate with the ball while also making very good decisions. I couldn’t care less about how strong a guys arm is or how tall he is. Its irrelevant. The Q is, is he accurate? Does he throw picks? Carr is accurate, does have a big arm, is adequately sized and reads the field well. This pick is mostly BPA with a dash of need considered, but if you are going to take a QB, it might as well be the best one early. Theres no sense in drafting a backup QB. Fact is he may not even be available when we are up in the late teens.
2. LT, NC, James Hurst - IMO a top LT in the entire draft. Hopefully noone else notices him because he could easily be chomped up in the 1st round. Ive watched him closely the past few weeks after first noticing him vs Virginia Tech. He looks very much like Joe Thomas out there. Very technically sound. Good, not great run blocking but that can improve with a strength and conditioning program. Solid in pass protection. Very smart and heady. Add in the fact he used to play next to Cooper and you have a Tyrann + PP type of bond of talent on the line. They make each other better, which makes the left side of our line rock solid.
3. CB, Virginia Tech, Kyle Fuller - Our depth at CB is not great. Also, I feel we can upgrade over Powers. Fuller is very much a BPA pick. I wanted to go with a pass rusher, but Fuller was the highest rated player I project available over the next best pass rusher. Fuller is a very good CB. More Richard Sherman than PP in the sense he wins by being technically sound, not a freak athlete. Good size, adequate speed, very good at avoiding penalties, good physicality. He looks like a lock #2 CB and could temporarily fill a #1 CB need if PP were to ever go down.
4. TE, Georgia, Charles Lynch. Blue chip blocker who is reliable as a receiver. Knack for making big plays in pressure moments (Tony Gonzalez type). Makes his money being extremely intelligent and a leader (Jason Witten type). A++ pick in the 4th.
5. C, Colorado State, Weston Richburg - Sendlein does a good job, but we have zero depth at the position if he were to go down. Weston is a stud. I read that in his 3 years playing, hes graded out as one of the top Centers in all of college football every year. Hes doesn’t give up pressure up the middle. He can be found in the 5th only because his quality of competition is questionable, but otherwise he has been consistently dominant throughout his career.
6. WR, Saginaw Valley, Jeff Janis - Sure handed small school stud who is a field stretcher. If he does nothing else well besides having a ton of speed, then hes performed up to expectations. We need a guy to bust the top off the D and he does that.
7. SS, Ohio State, CJ Barnett - This is who you want deep in the draft, a guy who bleeds football and is hungry to be a great. A Fitzgerald kind of work ethic who brings a winners attitude to the lockeroom. Urban Meyer said hes one of the most coachable and mature players hes ever encountered. And lets not forget hes a pretty good player too.
I wanted to reach on a pass rusher so much but I chose to go with BPA most of the time, which I feel is always a sound strategy. I also figured we are getting both Acho and Okafor back next year, so that’s a free pass rush boost. Keim made it evident that character is a factor in his drafting, he balances rock solid guys with those who are questionable. As far as I know, none are questionable in this mock. Barnett and Lynch are both spearhead type guys who bring a competitors hunger to the lockeroom. I really like both these guys.
The #1 pick is always the hard one. If not Carr, I might go with Hurst in the 1st round. He is that good, IMO. Then in the 2nd you can take a pass rusher. I would be over the moon if we some how found Kyle Van Noy in the 2nd, in that scenario. He is one of my favorite players in all the draft who Id love to take but just cant find a spot to fit him in.
2. LT, NC, James Hurst - IMO a top LT in the entire draft. Hopefully noone else notices him because he could easily be chomped up in the 1st round. Ive watched him closely the past few weeks after first noticing him vs Virginia Tech. He looks very much like Joe Thomas out there. Very technically sound. Good, not great run blocking but that can improve with a strength and conditioning program. Solid in pass protection. Very smart and heady. Add in the fact he used to play next to Cooper and you have a Tyrann + PP type of bond of talent on the line. They make each other better, which makes the left side of our line rock solid.
3. CB, Virginia Tech, Kyle Fuller - Our depth at CB is not great. Also, I feel we can upgrade over Powers. Fuller is very much a BPA pick. I wanted to go with a pass rusher, but Fuller was the highest rated player I project available over the next best pass rusher. Fuller is a very good CB. More Richard Sherman than PP in the sense he wins by being technically sound, not a freak athlete. Good size, adequate speed, very good at avoiding penalties, good physicality. He looks like a lock #2 CB and could temporarily fill a #1 CB need if PP were to ever go down.
4. TE, Georgia, Charles Lynch. Blue chip blocker who is reliable as a receiver. Knack for making big plays in pressure moments (Tony Gonzalez type). Makes his money being extremely intelligent and a leader (Jason Witten type). A++ pick in the 4th.
5. C, Colorado State, Weston Richburg - Sendlein does a good job, but we have zero depth at the position if he were to go down. Weston is a stud. I read that in his 3 years playing, hes graded out as one of the top Centers in all of college football every year. Hes doesn’t give up pressure up the middle. He can be found in the 5th only because his quality of competition is questionable, but otherwise he has been consistently dominant throughout his career.
6. WR, Saginaw Valley, Jeff Janis - Sure handed small school stud who is a field stretcher. If he does nothing else well besides having a ton of speed, then hes performed up to expectations. We need a guy to bust the top off the D and he does that.
7. SS, Ohio State, CJ Barnett - This is who you want deep in the draft, a guy who bleeds football and is hungry to be a great. A Fitzgerald kind of work ethic who brings a winners attitude to the lockeroom. Urban Meyer said hes one of the most coachable and mature players hes ever encountered. And lets not forget hes a pretty good player too.
I wanted to reach on a pass rusher so much but I chose to go with BPA most of the time, which I feel is always a sound strategy. I also figured we are getting both Acho and Okafor back next year, so that’s a free pass rush boost. Keim made it evident that character is a factor in his drafting, he balances rock solid guys with those who are questionable. As far as I know, none are questionable in this mock. Barnett and Lynch are both spearhead type guys who bring a competitors hunger to the lockeroom. I really like both these guys.
The #1 pick is always the hard one. If not Carr, I might go with Hurst in the 1st round. He is that good, IMO. Then in the 2nd you can take a pass rusher. I would be over the moon if we some how found Kyle Van Noy in the 2nd, in that scenario. He is one of my favorite players in all the draft who Id love to take but just cant find a spot to fit him in.
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