I'd rather have Jackson in the 2nd than Mafe in the first.

I'd rather have neither one....and just take Sam Williams at 30.

At some point we just have to accept that Williams is a guy that isn’t going in the 1st round and might not even go top 50.

He’s getting absolutely no buzz in that range.

Pick your guy but I like the plan that he has bc goddamn do our DE’s need juice. We need some damn speed and talent there in the absolute worst way. You’ve got some inside with Jones and Wharton but man we’ve got Kaindoh and a bunch of shit there at DE.

That’s gonna be needed too for QB’s like Allen, Russ, Herbert and Watson. We aren’t playing statue Brady anymore

I’m really starting to think there’s an outside chance we could get him at 62. Very confident we can get him at 50

Nobody is complaining about the fact that he took two DEs in the first three picks. They're just complaining about WHO he picked.

Mafe and Jackson will likely play the same position. I get wanting to throw numbers at the entire line but spending multiple similar picks on the same exact position doesn't seem prudent. Get complimentary skillsets instead.

I don’t mind that at all. Obviously I’m a Jameson Williams homer but I think this DE class is very sneaky good and Dulcich is one of those quality TE’s IMO.

Just don’t like that we didn’t get a safety in that mock

The nice thing about safety is that it can be a real plug and play position. Thornhill was IMMEDIATELY an impact player as a rookie.

It's not uncommon at all to see 2nd day safeties make a big difference especially when paired with a capable veteran.

Justin Reid qualifies at this point in his career. So in the event you can't get Thornhill extended (or elect not to), you can probably target the position on the 2nd day next year and get a guy that can immediately play.

So it's not terribly vital for me that we target one high this year at all. In fact, in most ways it turned out hugely counter-productive as the draft went on.

I really dislike the idea of a first round safety. It just completely ignores that we have a good safety duo already in Reid and Thornhill.

Let's go get em boys:
1-14 (f/BAL) Jermaine Johnson II, DE, Florida State (1-29, 2-50, 2023 5th)
1-21 (f/NE) Devonte Wyatt, DT, Georgia (1-30, 3-94, 4-121)
2-62 George Pickens, WR, Georgia
3-103 Alontae Taylor, CB, Tennessee
4-135 Danny Gray, WR, SMU
6-186 (f/CHI) Daniel Bellinger, TE, San Diego State (7-233, 7-243, 7-259)
7-251 Shermari Jones, RB, Coastal Carolina

Unless you can get a guy like Pitre or Hill that can play slot CB AND safety and be on the field with Thornhill and Reid, all 3 together.

You give me Calvin Austin at 103 and I'll sign off on this insanity. Turn Pickens at 62 into Sam Williams and I think I'll just go ahead and wholeheartedly endorse it.

Or just find a slot corner 3 rounds later.

It's just not a priority of mine.

I'm not saying I'd necessarily target them but they do seem to be solid value and continuously available at our slot...

They're solid value because....well frankly we overvalue them. It's also why they're 'continuously available' to us. Because they SHOULDN'T be coming off the board before we pick.

These are the same conversations we had in 2019 when Juan Thornhill was a 1st round value. And Marquise Blair and Nasi Adderley and Taylor Rapp.

I did it last year with Grant Delpit.

And in the most egregious of cases you see someone like Chauncey Gardner-Johnson who we were talking ourselves into 'with what's really just a 2nd round pick anyway' going all the way to the 4th round.

They're safeties, man. They're the relief pitchers of the NFL. These guys are guys who couldn't hack it as CBs so they got moved to S and find a role.

We just overvalue them here in a big way, IMO.