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Several of them like Concepcion and Rodriguez.

Media types favorite player in the draft. A couple guys linked to us mentioned.

^This man gets it. I know OT is not sexy like Edge, WR or even CB, but if a team is deficient at tackle bad things happen. This is our tackle situation: - Out for the year...at least -JAG FA swing tackle just for the season -Aging, ailing RT with only two years left -One-year 'meh' rent-a-tackle in hopes Ickey can come back in '27 That's it fellas. That's what we are working with. It would be damn near dereliction of duty for Dan to go into camp like this.

I guess it's so we don't have to force a UDFA QB to be in serious consideration for QB3. QB4 will be just a camp arm and maybe a stash on the PS if he looks half way decent. They will not bring in competition for Bryce if you haven't figured that out by now. He's either going to sink or swim. The next QB with a legit arm on this team will be when we move on from Bryce. I think this is the ramifications from the Darnold/Mayfield debacle.

I wouldn't mind it, but Lomu is my guy. I agree, if we get another WR and Bryce still looks....well, like Bryce, we know it's time to move on.

Warren was my guy, but Tet was 1b. I was only sightly disappointed.

With three of those guys in our range of #19, it should be. I still don't think so. It's WR or OT. Miller is a RT and that's not the OT we immediately need.

Here is Shefter's take: (Panthers at 28:40)

The Browns, lol. This got me thinking though, if they pass on proctor at #6 (likely) and he's still on the board at #19, we trade back with them. The reason? The team most people have Lomu married to just re-signed their LT, Williams with the 49ers. If both guys are there and the team feels #19 is a little rich for Lomu, trade back to #24, The Browns get their tackle and we get ours, oh, and some draft capital to boot.

Here's a different spin from ESPN's Jordan Reid's final mock: (thank goodness) https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/48480079/2026-nfl-mock-draft-seven-rounds-257-picks-predictions-jordan-reid-fits

I would love to trade back with the 159th pick. Having back to back picks gives that luxury. When mocking, I really need 9 picks to give me the sense of hitting all the need areas. While I doubt we pick up two extra picks, at least one more will help.

This why CB is in play, his versatility and while a utility knife, can be upgraded. Doing a lot of things decently and doing one thing really well are completely different.

I think we all can agree pick #51 is the best off-ball LB remaining on the board. Right?

Loveland was at Michigan who was a run heavy team. I was unsure about him because of it, and the very reason I thought McCarthy was a questionable pick where he got selected. Also, we've got blocking TEs already; we need a Greg Olsen 2.0. There are decent options for TE in every round. Based on who we brought in, you can take a educated guess when we might be targeting a TE. Literally this one sight has the guys we brought in for visits raked sequentially, so rounds 4-5.

The reason I hate the Sadiq link to us is as follows: -Shallow starting LT draft. We've got to sh1t or get off the pot. If we don't get a first round LT, it's a wasted pick to slow roll a developmental type later in the draft. -WRs might drop. If a legit WR drops to #19, why would we pass them up? -McNeil-Warren or Thienemen: We have got to upgrade safety. -Slot CB. We could upgrade over Smith Wade. -Better production TEs later in the draft. .

Yes, those are 1st round TEs worth the pick. Otherwise, minus those types of credentials, draft a guy who can really contribute and help out the team.

Production vs. traits. Panthers love them some guys with traits and that is what worries the crap out of me. Why do you think we kept Ian Thomas around for so long? He had traits, but could never gets those traits to translate into production.

Here's another. I started at the end of the Vikings pick because they are talking about lazy picks, then turn around and have us taking Sadiq. I swear guys, I am not selectively choosing these videos to make a point, I click and this is what they say. Again, I think everyone is starting to copy one another on these mocks.

Thieneman to the Vikings, just ahead of us, is one of the most recent viral trends in mocks. If he's our target, and he's on the board leading up to the late teens, we likely will have to leapfrog the Vikings.

This is a consensus mock. So 36% of all mocks this site collected have us taking Sadiq. For reference, that's the highest percentage of any selection past #18. I get it, our trend is to talk to and/or bring in for a visit guys we think we are going to daft. I really, really, hope Morgan sticks to his trend.

Maybe this is the year Morgan breaks his trend. I really hope not. Other teams draft guys they did not meet with over the spring, yes, even in the first round.

Starting at our pick, you can stop after our selection and the analysis. I'm not sure if everyone is singing the same tune just because we can go any direction and Sadiq keeps falling.

Let's tighten this up. Instead of a new thread about certain news, rumors and mocks by media types leading up to Thursday's draft, capture it all here. So Klatt, Simms and McShay most recent mocks (literally all this morning) have us taking Sadiq. Thoughts? I hate it. Kiper, who sucks, says the safety out of Toledo. Also, Trent Williams re-signed with the 49ers.

Trent Williams just got an extension from the 49ers. https://www.nfl.com/news/trent-williams-49ers-two-year-50-million-deal-ending-contract-standoff

There are rumblings that Bailey might go #2 over Reese. The reasoning? Pure Edge rusher over an athletic 'tweener.