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2:59

and giving us the best answers they could

3:01

give us without tipping their hand too

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much. However, we do have some things to

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that, we're going to do a whole darn

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stay put. We've got all kinds of draft

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Adam Peters is going to be pondering at

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pick number 29 on the first night

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of the NFL Draft, kicking off Thursday night

3:22

at 8 p .m. Eastern. So, insiders, we're

3:24

getting text messages all through this press

3:26

conference and getting as many notes as I

3:28

could possibly give them. So, you guys

3:30

are all over a lot of these comments

3:32

already, but we're going to dive into

3:34

a lot of these trade comments. And one

3:37

comment that I want to start with

3:39

here, Adam Peters saying, quote, you're really open

3:41

to everything. you're open to moving up

3:43

if the right moves up. But if there's

3:45

a great player that we want to

3:47

sit and pick, we'll do that end quote.

3:49

And I really kind of honed in

3:51

on this great player thing. This is not

3:53

a subtle situation for Adam Peters. This

3:56

is not, yeah, he's good enough or yeah,

3:58

we like him. No, this has got

4:00

to be and we've kind of talked about

4:02

this, right? I've kind of outlined that

4:04

to me, my like favorite scenario here is

4:06

that the commanders come on the clock

4:08

at 29 and they're sitting there and there's

4:10

like five or six guys that they

4:12

like. all together. At 29, we

4:14

like all these dudes. It's like

4:16

going to the buffet and you can get

4:19

one protein, but you got five bins of

4:21

proteins and you're like, I like all these

4:23

proteins equally. There's not a great one. They're

4:25

just all good dudes. That

4:28

is kind of what I want to

4:30

have happen for the Washington commanders. Not

4:32

only wrong, if that great player presents

4:34

himself fantastic, makes your job a lot

4:36

easier if you're out in Peters. However,

4:38

I really want to see this team,

4:40

especially in this draft class, which is

4:42

good, but not great. Get as many

4:44

picks as possible. So to try to

4:46

figure out, let's try to hypothesize what's

4:48

most likely to happen on Thursday night.

4:50

I think we have to do is

4:52

start with the top players available at

4:54

the different position groups that the Washington

4:56

mayors could be looking at. And this,

4:58

of course, is all projected, right? None

5:00

of it is 100 % for sure.

5:02

But you're looking at guys like interior

5:04

linemen, Tyler Booker out of Alabama or

5:06

Gray Zable out of North Dakota State,

5:08

who's kind of grown on me the

5:10

more that I've gone through this Tyler

5:12

Booker. Not a big fan of Alabama

5:14

guys, not like, you know, nothing personal

5:16

against them or like John Allen, Deron

5:18

Payne, Brian Hirams and nothing like that.

5:20

But I've been talking to some other

5:22

media members too. And this is

5:24

something that I wish I had the ear of

5:26

a scout at this point in time this season,

5:29

but right now they're all pretty much shut in.

5:31

And, you know, Alabama guys just kind of tend

5:33

to come into the league a little bit more

5:35

banged up than other schools, a little bit more

5:37

worn down than other schools. And Tyler Booker already

5:39

has a little bit of a lack of some

5:41

of the things that we're looking for for a

5:43

commander's lineman in my humble opinion. So I think

5:45

Gray Zabel, even though Tyler Booker is the higher

5:47

rated player, I think Gray Zabel would be the

5:49

higher player on my personal big board in this

5:51

situation. Ed Ruscher, Donovan Ezracu,

5:53

out of Boston College. We've seen

5:55

him mocked multiple times. There's NFL

5:58

.com mock. ESPN .com Mach, sending

6:00

down Don Venezarroco to the Commanders at

6:02

29. So, he's definitely one of those guys.

6:04

Our number one pass rushing edge on

6:06

our big board. Safety Nick

6:08

Mnwari out of South Carolina, sorry,

6:10

not Boston College, who we've

6:12

talked about extensively. Widerseer Luther Burton

6:15

III out of Missouri. Cornerback

6:17

Maxwell Herston out of Kentucky, who I'm

6:19

not all that high on, but I know

6:21

a lot of Commander's fans are. Tackle,

6:24

Offensive Tackle Josh Connerley Jr. out of Oregon.

6:26

defense will tackle Kenneth Grant at a Michigan

6:28

running back trade beyond Henderson out of Ohio

6:30

State. Those are looking at positions of needs

6:32

or target position groups that we've talked about

6:34

about the Washington Commanders. Those are the guys

6:36

that you're kind of thinking of are going

6:38

to be available or potentially going to be

6:40

available at number 29 for Adam Peters. So

6:42

the question now is, are any of those

6:44

players great? Well, I think what you have

6:46

to look at here is none of those players, in my opinion, are

6:49

day one starters projected, you know, as

6:51

soon you pick them, day one starter

6:53

projected outside of Nick Mnwari

6:55

out of South Carolina if the team is

6:57

fixated on getting a Jeremy Chin like safety

6:59

onto the field and I don't know they

7:01

are because Jeremy Chin one of the more

7:03

surprising players to leave the Washington Bears this

7:05

offseason heads of the Las Vegas Raiders on

7:08

a multi -year deal. I really thought he was

7:10

going to come back. I know several multimedia

7:12

members really thought he was going to be

7:14

back. Like he was not a guy. We

7:16

were even really worried wasn't going to be

7:18

back, right? Like we just thought he was

7:20

to be back, but he's not. So

7:22

the question now is was that like a

7:24

Jeremy Chin thing? Or was that a shift?

7:26

Are we seeing a shift in the scheme

7:28

where maybe Joey Junior's not going to employ

7:30

this large safety hybrid linebacker type of guy?

7:32

If they aren't, then Nicky Minowari kind of

7:34

falls off your board. Even if they are

7:36

Nicky Minowari, not the most physical dude in

7:38

the world. I have confidence in coach him

7:41

into more physical play because he did it

7:43

with Jeremy Chin. Coming from Carolina, he wasn't

7:45

looking all that physical, not looking all that

7:47

aggressive. They were kind of bringing that out

7:49

of him. However, It was pointed out to

7:51

me by another media member. I was having

7:53

this conversation with that. If you go back

7:55

and look at early Jeremy Chen and Jeremy

7:57

Chen coming out of the draft, he was

7:59

super physical and that's a good point. So

8:02

the Carolina Panthers basically took that away from

8:04

him versus possibly just not being there with the

8:06

Emanuari. So a little bit of a food

8:08

for thought there. Don

8:10

Menez -Iraku, there's no other Micah Parsons quote

8:12

unquote on this roster, right? Dante Fowler Jr.

8:14

was that Micah Parsons for them last year.

8:16

There's no other guy like that. that you

8:19

just kind of look and say, boom, that's

8:21

our, that's our Michael Parsons for this defense. So

8:23

as a Rock, you could certainly be that guy. Outside

8:26

of those two, I don't know that

8:28

I look at this roster. I mean, Tyler

8:30

Booker, Gray's Able, they're going to compete, you

8:33

know, potentially could be, but they're going to compete. Luther

8:35

Burton's not going to be the number one, probably not

8:37

to be the number two target. Cornerback,

8:39

Maxwell Hairston, certainly the speed

8:41

is there, but he's smaller. You

8:44

know, can he stand up to the physicality of the game

8:46

at the NFL level? Like those are all questions. Josh

8:48

Connerly is not going to be a

8:50

slam dunk tackle either. Even

8:52

though probably would win the job, I think, right? But not

8:54

a slam dunk. Kenneth Grant is going to have to

8:56

compete with a lot of guys on the D -line. Treyvion

8:58

Henderson, B. Rob Austin, Neckler are certainly

9:00

going to be there to have their say on

9:02

who gets snapped, right? So I just, I look

9:05

at them and a lot of upside, but is

9:07

there a player on this roster that's just boom,

9:09

great above the rest? No, I don't think there

9:11

is. So the question is, who is the deal

9:13

with after that? Who's calling on the other side

9:15

of the phone saying we want to move up

9:17

to number 29? And who's likely to come off

9:19

the board? Well, Cleveland Browns are a team that

9:21

I've talked about a lot about the team training

9:23

back for or with. And if it's clearly my

9:25

preferred spot at 33, well, if you do that,

9:27

Cleveland moves up to 29 for a quarterback. Then

9:29

we have some mock scenarios, right? The Vikings say

9:31

take even worry. The Ravens then take

9:33

another safety Malachi Starks out of Georgia.

9:36

The Rams take Luther Burton, the third. So

9:38

your receiver is gone. That puts you on

9:40

the clock. And from your original list, you

9:42

still have Booker and Zabel. You've got Ezraku,

9:44

Herston, Connerly, Grant. and Henderson also available. Now,

9:46

if the Ravens go as a rock you

9:48

instead of Starks because they could use an

9:50

address here as well, then Starks is back

9:52

on the board as a rock was off.

9:54

You still have a pretty good list. So

9:56

if the prospect is moving down to 33

9:59

collecting more picks are locked on mock draft

10:01

trade was number 104 in the early fourth

10:03

round. So that's not a bad deal. You

10:05

get that early fourth round pick added to

10:07

your current stock. Personally, the only

10:09

player on that list that I'm not answering the

10:11

phone for to discuss a trade is diamond as

10:13

a rock you like when I say Who do

10:15

I think boom is our home run guy? Don

10:17

Menez, a rocky was that home run guy. Don

10:19

Menez, a rock. Oh, I feel like fits like

10:21

a glove with this scheme. And with what this

10:23

team needs to replace Dante Fowler Jr. But if

10:25

the commanders don't find him great, then the move

10:27

could still come as far as moving up. We'll

10:30

get rid of it. We'll talk about that

10:32

one real quick here. I would be eternally

10:34

surprised if the wash, commanders moved up, looking

10:36

at the mock drafts. The guy that I

10:38

look at that is the furthest down the

10:40

board that would be worth moving up for

10:42

in my opinion, wide receiver, Matthew Golden. He

10:44

is going right around number 12 to the

10:47

Dallas Cowboys, which means you're going to move

10:49

up to number 11, the San Francisco 49ers.

10:51

That would require the commanders to make up.

10:53

After you give them 29 already, you're going

10:55

to make up 156 points according to the

10:57

Rich Hill, uh, chart for draft value picks

10:59

or draft pick value charts. Um, that's the

11:01

equivalent of the sixth pick in the second

11:04

round. So if the commanders for, for point

11:06

standpoint were to give up 29, 61 and

11:08

128, their first three picks in their shares

11:10

draft. they would still have to satisfy a

11:12

mid -third round value in order to make

11:14

up the rest of the cost. So you're

11:16

going to lose all three of those picks. You're

11:19

going to get a wide receiver, and then

11:21

you're done to the sixth round. Just not,

11:23

not going to happen, you know what I mean?

11:25

So, staying in picking is

11:27

more likely than trading up, I think.

11:29

Trading back, I'd say, is much

11:31

more likely unless something incredible happens and

11:33

somebody just slides stunningly down the

11:35

board. AP kind of joked that if

11:37

Abdul Carter is available at 29, we'll take him.

11:40

because that's not going to happen. AP also said,

11:42

quote, with five picks, that's something like you'd like

11:44

to do is add picks, but you always have

11:46

to have somebody who wants to come up too.

11:48

So, who are the trade candidates that might want

11:50

to move up and make a deal with the

11:52

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Commanders, after we spoke to Adam Peters

13:46

on Tuesday, talking about trading, talking

13:49

about trading in the NFL draft and it just

13:51

got me thinking, man, it's got the wheels turning.

13:53

I was driving home from the press conference and

13:55

I'm like, man, we got to talk about this.

13:57

So talked about the likelihood of moving up again.

13:59

You know, these players are all either beholder. When

14:01

I look at the mock drafts, I just, I

14:03

go down the list. I'm like, you know, all

14:05

these dudes are good players, good projections, right? But

14:07

I'm like, who is worth moving up for? Who's

14:09

that guy? It could be like a game

14:11

changer. You know, look at the Washington commanders.

14:14

I look at their wide receiver room. And

14:16

I'm just like, Matthew Golden is probably the

14:18

guy going the latest, right? Obviously, like Ashton

14:20

Genzi, those types of guys, but Matthew Golden

14:22

is going at the end of that list

14:24

and the price to move up to like

14:26

a number 11 to get ahead of the

14:28

Cowboys to get them. Just ridiculous. You're not,

14:30

you're not going to do it. Um, but

14:32

AP didn't, they did acknowledge that again, quote,

14:34

with five picks, that's something like you'd like

14:36

to do is add picks, but you also

14:38

have to have somebody who wants to come

14:40

up to end quote. And I think that

14:42

when you're at 29, there's a high likelihood,

14:44

especially in this draft class, that someone's going

14:46

to want to come up. Why? Because they're

14:48

going to want a quarterback. So there are

14:50

six teams. Yeah. Six

14:52

teams that project to

14:55

be. Quarterback Needy, the Tennessee

14:57

Titans, the Cleveland Browns, the New York

14:59

Giants, the New Orleans Saints, the Las

15:01

Vegas Raiders, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now,

15:03

looking at the mocks again, the

15:05

Tennessee Titans are supposed to, projected to take

15:07

Cam Ward out of Miami, Florida, with the

15:10

number one overall pick. That's their quarterback. The

15:12

Raiders are projected by Chad Reuter

15:14

of NFL .com to take Shudder Sanders,

15:16

the quarterback out of Colorado, with the

15:18

number six overall pick. The

15:21

New Orleans Saints. are now projected

15:23

to take Jackson Dart out of Ole

15:25

Miss with the number 9 overall pick again,

15:27

according to Reuter. So that leaves you,

15:29

that's your first round for Chad Reuter at

15:31

NFL .com. So that leaves you the next

15:33

top quarterback off the board, Jalen

15:35

Milrow out of Alabama, presumably to the

15:37

Browns at number 33. That is where Reuter

15:39

sends him in his most recent 7 -round

15:41

draft pick. But, or Mock Draft. But

15:43

if you convince Cleveland that the Giants or

15:45

the Steelers are going to try to

15:47

move ahead of them to get a quarterback

15:49

first, you might be able to give

15:51

them the pay again, a little bit higher

15:54

than what the rich hill model says.

15:56

So the rich mill, rich hill model says

15:58

for each of these three teams, here's

16:00

what they have to give up just as

16:02

close to equal points as possible. The

16:04

Cleveland Browns at number 33 to get to

16:06

number 29 for that quarterback, we have

16:08

to give up number 33 in the second

16:10

round, number 104 in the fourth round.

16:12

That's an 11 point overpay according to the

16:14

rich hill model, which we are moving

16:17

back into the first round. You're getting a

16:19

quarterback. That's a more than reasonable overpay.

16:21

So we're okay there. That's the trade that

16:23

we made with Spencer German, the host

16:25

of Locked On Browns and the Locked On

16:27

podcast mock draft. New York

16:29

Giants are 34. They would

16:31

have to give up number 34, number

16:33

99 to move up to number 29.

16:35

That is a nine -point overpay, so slightly

16:37

less overpay for the New York Giants.

16:39

Hang on. The Pittsburgh

16:41

Steelers don't have a second round draft

16:43

pick, so they can't get a

16:45

quarterback in the first. You're now

16:48

looking at, for 29, they'd have to

16:50

give you 83, which is in the

16:52

third round, 123, which

16:54

is in the fourth round, and

16:56

a 2026 first. Then

16:59

you're still only three a half points over. And

17:02

if you're telling me you want my first round

17:04

pick and you're not giving me anything back this

17:06

year until the third round, you're overpaying by more

17:08

than three and a half points, my friend. Like,

17:10

that's not going to happen. So

17:12

the Steelers, I kind of feel

17:14

like they're out of the running here. They might just be

17:16

stuck on Aaron Rodgers Island, just waiting to see when Aaron

17:18

Rodgers comes out of his cave, and if he sees a

17:20

shadow or not. But because

17:22

you're overpaying, the

17:24

Giants are in a sticky situation. Because if

17:26

the Giants trade up for a quarterback, that's

17:29

not going to sit well with Russell Wilson, the guy

17:31

that they brought in in his introductory press conference, talking

17:33

about how he's just running the whole singing franchise. That's

17:36

not to sit well with him, because not

17:38

only are you trading back in the first

17:40

round and get a quarterback, which means you're

17:42

eventually replacing him. which are also giving up

17:44

draft capital that could then be used to

17:47

help Russell win with your team that you're

17:49

no longer going to use to help him

17:51

win. Not going to sit well. But if

17:53

they don't, then Russell Wilson basically better challenge

17:55

for an NFC East Division title or else

17:57

they're just going to clean house in New

17:59

York, right? So a very sticky situation for

18:01

the Giants. But also, you're asking Adam Peters

18:03

to trade within the division again. And

18:06

AP kind of addressed that and said, you know,

18:08

the best deal is the best deal. not worried

18:10

about trading in the division. He's already proven that

18:12

trade with Eagles twice last year. However,

18:14

I do think it gets a little

18:16

bit different when there's a quarterback involved.

18:18

It's one thing to trade back and let

18:21

one of your division rivals trade up

18:23

to get a player that you're not

18:25

going to take anyway. It's a

18:27

whole other thing to let your division

18:29

rival trade up with you, jump ahead

18:31

of another team that wants a quarterback.

18:34

and help them potentially land their next franchise

18:36

quarterback. To me, that's a little bit different.

18:39

I think there's a little bit of a

18:41

different skew there. So if you're AP, you're

18:43

at least going to make them overpay more,

18:45

right? Or you're just straight up not going to

18:47

do it. So what I'm going to try

18:49

to do is I'm going to try to get

18:51

Cleveland on the phone, convince them to come

18:53

up from that 104 overall in the fourth round

18:56

to at least their late third round pick

18:58

number 94 overall, which would be an overpay of

19:00

19 points to that point equivalent to a

19:02

late fourth for the right to get a quarterback

19:04

ahead. of the others and get a fifth

19:06

year option on Milrow. Now, if

19:08

I remember correctly, the Cleveland

19:10

Browns also have an earlier third round

19:12

pick that, you know, would be

19:14

about a 50 -point overpay, which is

19:16

about the equivalent of a mid -third

19:19

or a mid -fourth round pick. mean,

19:21

I think it's a mid -third round pick. That's

19:23

very rich. But again, if

19:26

you're talking about going up and getting your

19:28

potential franchise quarterback, right, like Jalen Milrow, You're, if

19:30

you're Cleveland, you're probably gonna let them sit

19:32

for a year. You're gonna let them kind of

19:34

understudy all that stuff. And you're gonna hope

19:36

that he can, he can pan out that athleticism

19:38

also combines with a little bit of arm

19:40

talent, right? That, so that's, that's kind of the

19:42

best case scenario is that, that first third

19:44

round pick from Cleveland. But more likely

19:47

than not, you convince them to give you that

19:49

late third round pick. They keep their fourth round.

19:51

First of all, that late third is actually from

19:53

Buffalo. So in some ways, not even their own

19:55

pick. So they might be a little bit more

19:57

willing to come off of it. Now,

19:59

you might notice that just talking about all

20:01

this without even having another GM on the

20:03

other side of the phone has taken us

20:05

about as long as it takes for the

20:08

clock to wear down on an NFL draft

20:10

pick on night one. The good

20:12

news here is all these talks are already starting

20:14

to happen. AP said, quote, we're making those

20:16

calls this week. We'll have an idea of who wants

20:18

to come up and if we want to do that end

20:20

quote. So these talks are already

20:22

starting to happen. AP also told me

20:24

Quote, there is a group of 10, 5,

20:26

20 guys. If these guys are there,

20:28

should we stay and pick or should we

20:30

trade out? End quote. To me, that

20:33

list of likely players is not even five

20:35

deep that you would consider staying at

20:37

29 and picking. So if this Browns trade

20:39

idea works and the Browns come up, even

20:41

if you can't convince them to come all the way up into

20:44

the third round, even if you have to take that fourth

20:46

round pick and the Browns are like, look, we

20:48

don't believe anybody's actually trying to jump up. We don't believe

20:50

you're going to trade with the Giants. But we just

20:52

want to be 100 % sure we want to get that

20:54

fifth round option. So let us come up right now to

20:56

29. And this is what we'll give you. That's

20:59

still, that's still a better option to

21:01

me. Again, to me,

21:03

Diamond, Ezraku, you pick him at 29. If

21:05

Ezraku is not there, which I've got

21:07

friends in Atlanta telling me he's not getting

21:09

past the Falcons. I've got friends in

21:11

Tampa telling me he's not getting past the

21:14

Bucks. So we'll see. But if

21:16

he's there at 29, to me, you're taking him.

21:18

If he's not there, If the Cleveland Browns want

21:20

to move up to get a quarterback, which I

21:22

don't see why they wouldn't, you make the deal.

21:24

Hopefully, you get that third round pick. What would

21:26

that look like if that trade is able to

21:28

go down? What better way

21:30

to end a pre -draft trade pick

21:32

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21:37

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a bonus mock draft. So Adam Peters said

23:14

a lot of things about trading up,

23:16

about trading down, about sticking and picking, and

23:18

we are sitting here doing our best

23:20

to pick through them, read through the lines,

23:23

read between the lines, read above them,

23:25

read under them, and figure out what is

23:27

most likely to happen. And to me,

23:29

most likely, you're probably trading down.

23:31

And to me, you're most likely trading down

23:33

with the Cleveland Browns. If you can get

23:35

a little bit of a bidding war, then

23:37

I think we're in convinced Cleveland to take

23:39

the Washington Mayor's 29th overall pick, and in

23:41

exchange, you're going to end up with the

23:43

Cleveland Browns 33rd overall pick, the first pick

23:45

in the second round, and you're to get

23:47

the 94th pick, which is a late third

23:49

round pick. And going through a

23:52

mock draft with those picks, the

23:54

first pick, I'm taking a 33, running

23:56

back Travion Henderson. Listen, I

23:58

am just in love with the idea

24:00

of Travion Henderson playing for this Washington

24:02

Mayor's team. I know there's a lot

24:04

of people who say, you know what, draft Travion

24:06

Henderson and then trade Brian Robinson Jr. I don't know

24:08

if that would be the plan. I don't know

24:10

if that's exactly how this would go down. You

24:13

know what I mean? But I think Trevion Henderson,

24:15

pass blocking is already a great thing. His

24:18

burst, his ability to

24:20

hit home runs on the ground. He's got

24:22

enough power to run between the tackles as

24:24

well. Like Trevion Henderson, Abel Haas State has

24:26

just become he. And then Donovan as a

24:28

Raku, I think are clearing away my two

24:30

favorite players at or near the top of

24:32

this board for the Washington Commanders. Sixty -first overall

24:34

pick. Come back on the clock, cornerback, Darian

24:36

Porter, sarin is right in the face, six

24:38

foot, three, four, three, 40 speed. Uh, I

24:40

mean, you go after that, right? You go

24:42

after all that Iowa state only started for

24:45

one year. That's a little bit of a

24:47

risky play, but you're going to go after

24:49

that potential and go after that upside and

24:51

you're going to develop the crap out of

24:53

him, uh, starting in training camp, rookie minicamp

24:55

coming back in the third round, 94th overall

24:57

pick. I'm looking at D lineman, Jordan Phillips

24:59

out of Maryland, uh, going to help us

25:01

get better against the run. Hopefully as he

25:03

develops, uh, himself fourth round pick, 128th overall

25:05

pick. guard Myles Frazier. We're going to bring

25:07

him in. We're to let him compete. I

25:09

don't think right off the bat, he's to

25:11

be better than Nick Allegretti. So I think

25:14

Nick Allegretti still ends up your starter, but

25:16

Myles Frazier, they can come in and definitely

25:18

end up competing for one of those key

25:20

backup jobs. And then you never know. Never

25:22

know what happens from their sixth round pick. Pick

25:24

205. Limebacker, Shamar James out of Florida, listed

25:27

as an off -ball linebacker, but I think

25:29

the commanders shift him into that outside linebacker

25:31

role. I'm not going to sit here and

25:33

tell you six round pick. He's going to

25:35

be your starting outside linebacker. That's going to

25:37

have to get figured out still, but think

25:39

he's got more potential there, especially in this

25:41

defense than he does as an off ball

25:43

linebacker. And then with our seventh round pick,

25:45

pick two, two 45 overall, safety Hunter

25:47

Waller out of Wisconsin, hard news, nose hard

25:49

news, hard nose safety, hard hitting, strong safety

25:51

Hunter Waller out of Wisconsin. Again, him back

25:53

there with a guy like Tyler Owens. If

25:55

Tyler can be healthy and stay healthy. Will

25:57

Harris, Kwan Martin, that's a very decent, very

25:59

good safety core, and if Hunter Willard can

26:02

develop over the next year or two, they'll

26:04

contribute on special teams, as will Shamar and

26:06

James in linebacker out of Florida. So that's

26:08

kind of the mock draft class that I

26:10

come up with for this bonus mock draft.

26:12

So that's a glimpse of what trade scenarios

26:14

could look like for the Washington commanders come

26:16

Thursday night and what the outcome could be.

26:18

We only moved from five to six picks,

26:20

right? We only added one pick. But I

26:22

think adding that one pick really kind of

26:24

just brings the whole thing home. You don't

26:26

end up... no picks. You, you ultimately have

26:28

no picks in the first round or the

26:31

fifth round. But again, that first pick in

26:33

the second round, you're getting a dude that

26:35

you could have taken in the first round

26:37

anyway. Yeah, you don't get the fifth year

26:39

option. But again, the way that Alan Peters

26:41

is managing these contracts, you're not really super

26:43

worried about it. Anyway, you ended without a

26:45

pick in the fifth, but you have two

26:47

picks in the second, a third, a fourth,

26:49

a sixth, a seventh. That's a really good

26:51

spread of draft picks for a team that

26:53

is still very much. building from the inside

26:55

out. So again, a glimpse of what trade

26:57

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