I read that both Jackson and Siereveld HAVE returned.
I donāt think theyāve made it official yet, but theyāre heavily expected to.
I think Tiernan is a guy that could step in and keep Goff up right, he may take a min with the run game and the rest. But I believe he can protect Goff. He is probably going to go higher then most think
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True. And, rumor has it, Gonzalez, who has also been pretty good. I just wish he would have stayed with his picck in ā24 and taken deJean.
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DeJean is an elite slot corner and but only league average when he has to play outside. Listen to any Philly fan, they want to desperately add an outside corner so they can move DeJean back inside - he was forced to play outside due to injury a lot this year. And as a slot corner, there was way too much overlap with Branch. Plus what we really needed was an outside corner. Iād love to have him now given Branchās injury, but at the time I understood.
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I think TE can be a FA signing or much later pick, right now anyway. Oline and safeties are super critical this offseason and if we flub it weāre pretty much done with how good chicago has gotten.
Depends on the tight end. Iām with Brad on that. Itās the player that matters not the position. Within reason of course.
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I would like to state for the record that I will physically throw up if we draft any of the Alabama offensive linemen.
I will if itās Proctor as early as heās being mocked. Iād be OK in the 2nd, but I think heās a guard. I still believe thereās a player in Roberts, but man his play log is wild this year. I keep hearing he was trying to tough it out through injury, but to the tune of 14 plays against Indiana? Just take a seat, sheesh. That said I think heāll only cost a late day 3 pick at this point, and with his upside Iād be fine with that. Heās basically free.
Brailsford looks great on film. Technique is as good as any centerās Iāve seen, and he never gets fooled. But heās just too small. All that great technique then a guy hits him and he flies backward. Whatās the point? He might as well be a DB trying to play C.
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This accurately describes my own high school career playing left guard.
Because of that, I know exactly why I donāt want Brailsford on my NFL team.
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What center prospects do you expect to be gone before we pick in round 4? You can include the guys who you think may convert from OG or OT.
Itās tricky to pin when theyāll go of course, but I think Lew will absolutely be gone. The kid from Duke too. Parker? I also think Carter Smithās long-term outlook is at center, but I think heāll probably be gone too. I LOVE Kade Pieper but suspect heāll go back to school. And if he doesnāt, heāll be long gone by then anyway.
So that leavesā¦ Coogan? I donāt know, I suspect heāll go right around there. Iāve seen Gulbin listed as a 2nd rounder some places and a 6th others, but I have him in that 4th round range too. Logan Jones should still be around. Luke Petitbon too, who on my initial watch I really like - he was great against Alabama - but I need to do a deeper dive.
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Did the Oregon center return to school or did he just fall off the map after the Indiana game? He had a terrible game as did most of the Ducks OāLine against that Indiana front. They looked totally lost trying to pick up the Hoosier stunts up front.
He announced he was going back to school before that game. And yeah, he was awful. Really hurt Pregnonās stock too, who is in this class. And World and Harkey werenāt much better.
Of course. I certainly knew (everyone did) that he was a better nickel than outside corner coming out of college. In the proās heās played mosty nickel (about 25% wide, and 10% box). From what i can tell, his grades are not all that different. I live half the year in Eagle country, and I have not heard one person complain abut deJean on the outside. But thatās all beside the point.
My point is that I thought deJean was the best athlete (ie. the player that was most likely to ānot missā) available at our original pick. As for overlap with Branch - BB was playing both nickel and safety the previous year. We could have made it work. Its all water under the bridge, it doesnāt matter.
Brad always says he drafts players not positions. Its just not true. He tripled up on CB that year (CD in free agancy). It turned out real bad. Once Mitchell was chosen by the Eagles, I was all in on DeJean in that draft. I wish Brad would stick to his mantra, even though its not true, of drafting the player not the position. Positions are fluid, and, like he says (but doesnāt practice), they should be adressed in FA.
Theyāre not gonna complain too loudly, they love him. But most agree that while heās fine outside, heās a superstar in the slot. Any post about him on reddit it comes up. Like hereās one where itās mentioned in passing, but from what Iāve seen all of them are in agreement. Granted Iām not in the area, itās all their fans online, but they got a lot of them. And those tend to be the most plugged-in anyway, just like the people in here are more plugged-in to the Lions than someone you meet at a bar.
We are all going to get some right over the GM from time to time, GOOD drafting GMs are gonna hit at roughly a 55% clip which means there will be tons of misses, but I donāt love the narrative that has really taken off in here that DeJean was such an obvious move to make. I liked him a lot too (15th overall player that year), but thereās no such thing as canāt miss.
For sure we could have, but we really needed help outside too. And I donāt blame him at all for going Terrion, the vast majority of people had him ranked higher than DeJean. Itās not like it was one of Bradās outlier moves.
Itās not nearly this black and white imo. Sometimes he hammers our needs like he did CB that year, sometimes he doesnāt, like the year before when he went RB, TE, LB and S. How high was DT on most peopleās wish list in 2025? He definitely falls in love with players, but sometimes theyāre at a position of need.
I think this is really disingenuous. Just because you had DeJean higher on your board doesnāt mean Brad did. Like I said earlier, most people had Arnold higher. The fact that he took Arnold over DeJean isnāt a sign he went position over player, in fact I think thatās a pretty wild accusation. I think he liked Arnold better. A lot better. And it wasnāt out of left field, we all knew he would like him, he was one of the most popular picks in our mock prediction contest. Maybe he was wrong (and honestly to me that is still TBD), but I donāt think his process was anything like what youāre accusing him of.
I sort of agree here. The problem isnāt that we pick them. Its that we keep picking poorly. If you told me that McCoy would be a prime Darius Slay level corner from day one of course I would be okay with the pick. It just seems like we have to keep going back to the well because it doesnāt work out.
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I just donāt think you should go into a draft with hard and fast rules like that. There are LOTS of great CBs who were drafted in the 1st round.