Wut. Mitchell was always a 1st rd lock. He’s been a first rd player the whole time. He’s just moved up out of our reach
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A "1st round lock" that even today, the most plugged in guy in the draft community (Daniel Jeremiah) has going 32nd?

I think it's very likely that he goes in the 1st round? But "lock"?

You do this shit EVERY year man. Every single year.
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:-)
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Daniel Jeremiah doesn’t know shit. Look at this catastrophe of a mock. Levis at 4, Richardson down at 20, Musgrave and Benton in the 1st , Darnell Wright to us at 31.

This was the night before the draft last year :-)

https://www.nfl.com/news/daniel-jere...mock-draft-4-0
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So we're just going to pretend that Levis going top 5 wasn't the draft community narrative/cosnesnus all the way up until draft day?

:-)

I guess we can't rely on anybody then. They all "don't know shit".

Oh but that's right, Jordan Schultz is somehow more plugged in than NFLN's leading draft analyst.
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Even Schultz's report doesn't say he's a lock.

"Likely cementing himself..."

Like I said, he's very likely going in round 1. That's not the same thing as a "lock".

Just relax with the draft hyperbole for once.
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We've been there for 3 weeks, man.

"I don't see X getting to us" has just been the order of things for a bit now. Sadly, it seems to have also infected the 2nd round now. 50 guys going in the 1st, 100 of them going in the 2nd.

Whatev. Draft's deep - we'll have guys worth taking. 1st round is likely to have slightly underwhelming options and the 2nd round will have 5 guys that we all think "Man, how lucky are we that this guy fell to us!"
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Conversely guys that aren’t 1st rd talents get over drafted (EJ Manuel, Kenny Pickett, Cole Strange) and guys like Will Levis fall out of the first rd entirely.

Draft is a weird place with weird people. It’s not really surprising when you hear reports of GM’s scared of Mike Vrabel bc he’s a big man and not liking Will Levis bc he was a cocky kid with a big arm and sleeveless shirts made them uncomfortable.
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If Harrison, Odunze, Nabers, Thomas, Mitchell and Worthy are all gone by 32 then it's down to Franklin, Coleman, Ladd or Leggett. Or could they be brave and draft a TE like Ja'tavion Sanders and try and get a WR later like Baker, Rice, Pearsall or Walker? If Sanders has the potential to be a Kelce replacement longterm then I say go for it.
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So what did they do today?
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If 6 WRs go in the first, there will likely be some serious talent dropping that will be mandatory to take. You won't have to reach.
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They aren’t reaching for a tight end at 32. If there is a run on WRs then likely an OT falls to us or vice versa. Hopefully we get Morgan or even Guyton at 32. It’s more important to our offense than the #3 WR spot. There will be talent still at 64.
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We're not likely to get a quality TE early in the near future. And with us playing lots of 12 and 13 personnel then it wouldn't be a big reach imo.
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I agree. Getting a quality tight end should be a priority over WR if one falls to 32. It’s an eventual replacement for Kelce and a good additional receiver in the meantime.

If somehow we could move up enough to get a quality left tackle, that should be our top priority. But unless we get a number one for Sneed, which seems unlikely that isn’t going to happen.

Given how we got brown [and every day I keep thinking this was such a blessing at the price] I think we can leave getting another wide receiver to our second round pick, possibly moving up a little bit if necessary.
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why?

TE is not a position where multiple guys go in the first every year.

It's also not a position where the best NFL TE's necessarily are first rounders anyway.

Kelce, Kittle, Gronk-none were first rounders.

I don't know if I'd call Sanders a 'reach', but I don't know that I'd go that high either.
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