Skinsin2013

Pick Team Player Position 1 Chicago Caleb Williams QB 2 Washington Jayden Daniels QB 3 New England Drake Maye QB 4 NY Giants (From Arizona) JJ McCarthy QB 5 LA Chargers JC Latham OT 6 Arizona (From NY Giants) Marvin Harrison Jr. WR 7 NY Jets (From Tennessee) Malik Nabers WR 8 Atlanta Dallas Turner EDGE 9 Chicago Rome Odunze WR 10 Tennesse (From NYJ) Joe Alt OT 11 Minnesota Bo Nix QB 12 Philadelphia (From Denver) Quinyon Mitchell CB 13 Las Vegas Michael Penix QB 14 New Orleans Taliese Fuaga OT 15 Indianapolis Brock Bowers TE 16 Seattle Olu Fashanu OT 17 Jacksonville Nate Wiggins CB 18 Washington (From CIN) Troy Fautanu OT 19 LA Rams Laiatu Latu EDGE 20 Pittsburgh Brian Thomas Jr. WR 21 Miami Jackson Powers-Johnson C 22 Denver (From Philadelphia) Jared Verse EDGE 23 Minnesota T'Vondre Sweat DT 24 Dallas Amarius Mims OT 25 Green Bay Cooper DeJean CB 26 Tampa Bay Chop Robinson EDGE 27 Arizona Darius Robinson DL 28 Buffalo X'Avier Worthy WR 29 Detroit Kool-Aid McKinstry CB 30 Baltimore Byron Murphy II DT 31 Las Vegas (from San Francisco) Tyler Guyton OT 32 Kansas City Adonai Mitchell WR

Rare that I find an ideal draft online. Here's one. I'd love this. https://commanderswire.usatoday.com/lists/commanders-2024-7-round-mock-draft-2-0-nfl-draft-drake-maye/

Bull rusher and a guy that attempts to run around tackles. That's it. Wasn't dynamic to begin with. And the knee injury has/will impede him from becoming more dynamic. Listening to his dad too, that's an attitude that will instill ego in a son every single time. Just nothing but excuses and an exaggeration of his son's situation, in particular the double and triple teaming that wasn't happening at near the rate his father was claiming.

If we trade up to #1, I'll immediately say dumb. I know we're supposed to trust our new front office. But there isn't much that could be said to convince me that's a good idea. I've read, we trade our two seconds, and the #2 overall, to move up. Nah I'm good. The one stat I've read on Maye, that I absolutely love, is he was the highest rated QB when getting the ball out of his hands in less than 2.5 seconds (don't quote me on the time... I believe that was it). That's critical in this league. I also like the additional 3 inches (TWSS) in height overall Howell. Too many batted down balls this year.

A few guys will rise to the top. While I'm not suggesting we'll win the lottery, and the get the #1 pick overall, a quick glance at the #1 overall picks doesn't show too many busts. There is a very good chance we get a very good player. What we want, of course, is an elite player. And I agree with turtle28, this is a multi-year tank job. While I'm here, the trade deadline is three weeks away. Right now, it's looking like Tyus Jones may be the most realistic trade chip. A mid-to-late first seems to the be the consensus return. I really like Jones. But it's a rebuild. I'd love to capitalize on Kuzma's nice season and see a desperate team give us an offer we can't pass up on. Poole is a poor man's Trae Young, who I think is overrated.

No on Vrabel. And I always said Jay made some chicken soup out of a whole lot of chicken s. Jay was never allowed to be involved in the draft either.

Unpopular Opinions - Caleb Williams will be an egomaniac bust. Drake Maye is bigger version of Sam Howell and didn't want many big games this year. His decision-making is questionable. No one asks why a rookie QB was good for the first half of the year and not the second half, which is really really odd, yes? Sam Howell will go on to be a version of Kirk Cousins, just not as greedy as Kirk. Remember he said he would return money if the team didn't do well or he didn't perform? Maybe Baker Mayfield or Minshew, both of whom win games. We should trade back. BTW... these are just hunches. I wouldn't bet my farm on any of it happening. As a matter of fact, if I'm the new GM, I'm taking one of those two QBs because, well, you can't pass up on the opportunity.

Happy to say I was wrong then. I thought I read something about the SOS favoring us to end up at 3. I desparately want the 2 pick.

Here is my 1/1/24 draft prediction. Commanders draft 3 and trade up to 1 to nab Caleb Williams. Maye goes to the Pats at 2. MHJ to the Bears at pick 3.

I'm just a believer that QBs can be found anywhere in the draft. I won't go through all the names... you know them. And the Commanders need the extra ammo. They've depleted their young core players the past few years because Ron had no idea what he was doing. Plus top three QBs bust. Again, you know the names. I do believe they'll take a QB. It's just not what I would do.

We now own the #2 pick. And that means 1) taking a QB; 2) trading back and netting a second first round pick in 2025. I know what I would do. Relevant article - https://lionswire.usatoday.com/lists/nfl-draft-history-trades-no-2-overall-pick-detroit-lions-trubisky-ricky-williams-rgiii/ The Wentz Trade - Browns send the #2 to the Eagles. The Eagles dealt the No. 8 pick, their third-round pick (No. 77) and a fourth-round pick (No. 100) in 2016, plus their 2017 first-rounder (No. 12) and a 2018 second-round pick (No. 64) to move up and select Wentz. BTW... reading that article, you'll read soooo many QB first-round busts.

Sam Howell will be Kirk Cousins one day on a different team. Book it. I put about 10% of his results on him. I'm not from NC. I hate the Tar Heels. This team, Ron and EB especially, ruined him. At this point, he doesn't want to in there, probably not on this team under these coaches. His facial expression says it all. Again, I don't blame him.

Let's call it what it is... a business decision.

They wouldn't. In this run and fun era of mock draft simulators, the simulator trades are never realistic. The best predictor of the future (in terms of the trade value of a #3 pick) is the past. That's all this is showing... a comparable trade.

I do think you're right. Really sad that there are artificial rules for new regimes though.