Jay Roosevelt

T-Mac + Coker is the pairing. XL will likely be out of the league in a year or two. Probably playing for the Rock Hill Racoons or something.

We kind of need some of that, TBH.

"Well, I'm about 1/3 of a second slower when chasing down racoons than XL, but I'm a little faster at skinning them."

Our history on 3rd round picks says why the hell not?

They need to be. We can't assume a starting-quality EDGE will fall to us at 57.

I wouldn't put it past WWE to do an angle and have CM Punk and/or Roman Reigns jump him or something.

It's going to be worse than that...

Gave a day 2-3 mock a shot. Traded our 2nd, 3rd and one of our 5ths to move up for Ezeiruaku then added Josaiah Stewart in the 4th.

Nah, he's just costing the team cafeteria a fortune in squirrel meat.

Hear me out... Jaylin Noel in the 2nd.

I really could care less about the Falcons. I hate this idea that teams should draft to counter their division rivals. You build the best team possible; that's how you compete - with anyone. I'm not 100% sold on T-Mac, but I wasn't any more sold on Jalon Walker or James Pearce or any of the defensive players either. The only player I thought we had a realistic shot at that I was 100% sold on was Mason Graham, but the board didn't fall that way. That's just the draft for you.

I feel like we really need to come away with at least one of these players tonight: Donovan Ezeiruaku Mike Green Carson Schwesinger Nick Emmanwori Shavon Revel Xavier Watts Azareye'h Thomas Andrew Mukuba Kyle Kennard

I wouldn't hesitate to give up our 3rd - or even a future pick - to move up for Donovan Ezeiruaku. I can't imagine we don't have a 1st round grade on him, but it'll have to be done early because he won't last long if we don't make a move with the Browns, Texans, Titans or Raiders at the top of the 2nd.

Smitty was a lot of things - good and bad - but low energy was never something I associated with him. That's an interesting comment from him about himself.

I hadn't seriously considered him as an option since I figured we'd go defense, but I'm not mad. I'm just happy we didn't go with Mykey 4 Sacks.

I'm just glad it wasn't Mykey Four Sacks.

I'd rather us draft Mykel Williams. And I'd rather have gonorrhea than us draft Mykel Williams. That should tell you how much I want us to draft Shemar Stewart.

No.

If Mason Graham falls we'd better damn well take him.

I don't remember exactly; I was targeting LBs & WRs at that pick so I didn't notice.

My final simulator mock...

I have a bad feeling we're going to end up with a class that looks something like this...

Jalon Walker. I'd go Mike Green if not for the off-field issues.

Can you imagine if he had signed off on that deal? As bad a shape as we've been in the last few years imagine having no 1st round picks the last 3 years AND having no cap space to sign any free agents because of that contract. Somehow the Browns have managed to be better than us over that span (I don't think Kevin Stefanski gets the credit he deserves for that); the difference is I think we're about ready to come out of our mess and they're just starting to fully fall into theirs.