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Malik Willis to Dolphins and Tua to Falcons?

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Jaelan Phillips has agreed to a 4-year, $120 million deal with the Carolina Panthers with $80M in guarantees.

 

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2 hours ago, firefox1234 said:

 

Sounds like a future Moton replacement.  

Chiefs trade Trent McDuffie to Rams for #29 and fifth and sixth rounds picks and a 2027 third round pick.  Would you have traded JC for that haul? I say yes.  We would have two firsts and could put together a nice package to trade down into the second or third rounds.  ESPN.

#19 Monroe Freeling LT UGA

#51 Jake Goiday ILB Cincy

8 hours ago, firefox1234 said:

 

Good for him. Hope he kills it there. 

11 hours ago, Butterflyj30 said:

Not sure how he did with the Chargers

Big drop off.  Bad year and injuries.  

22 minutes ago, Butterflyj30 said:

What about Mekhi Becton for the Oline

We can do better.  

13 hours ago, 45catfan said:

Proctor will get eaten alive by speed rushers.  If you think Ickey was prone to get beat by speed demons on the edge, well a 360 pound dude ain't your answer.

I get this sentiment but a smaller tackle would be prone to get beat by bull/power rushers.  He played with a torn labrum all season and had zero pressures allowed against a very good Georgia pass rush.  I think all the LT prospects have issues. I am starting to like Freeling at 19 if he is there.

2 hours ago, Joe Bear said:

Hey, this team always wins when it trades Pro Bowlers.

It's a win/win. He would do better with the Rams, and we would do better w/ the no. 13+ picks.  

1 hour ago, Soul Rebel said:

If Fano falls, run the card up. I don't care about arm length with the production and versatility as a LT or RT (see: Slater, Rashawn).

Agree.  Dude is a freak athlete at 6'6".  

2 hours ago, strato said:

There is a scenario where coming to us would be 2 or 3 players who we could get in the mid 20s or so looking good to be there and a player people would trade up for, that would be redundant or a luxury for us, falling to 19. 
It is a very specific scenario that if it doesn’t come together, it just doesn’t. But if it did… 

By trade down I meant move up in the draft to 10 or so.  Trading back to the 20's would be fine by me.  

As bad as our luck has been (losing the playoff game, losing Icky, and dropping to #19 in the draft), having our biggest needs be deep positions in the draft (OT, ILB, C) is fortunate.  Don't trade down, let the draft come to you.  

1 hour ago, micnificent28 said:

With ickey returning

Returning as what? A backup guard?  His chances to return as a franchise LT are pretty slim.  Sadiq is a luxury pick. I get his speed and athleticism are elite but he can't block, has problems with drops (sound familiar), and would be invisible to Bryce over the middle.   

2019 traded up for Greg Little

2022 traded up for Matt Coral

2023 traded up for Bryce Young and DJ Johnson

2024 traded up for Jonathan Brooks and XL

2025 traded up for Nick Scourton.  

1 out of 7.  Hopefully, Morgan is still humbled by his '24 draft and won't think about it.  

On 2/27/2026 at 3:41 PM, TheSpecialJuan said:

They can't throw a ton of money around in FA to "make a run now". They need to be intentional about building a solid foundation. (IMO)

Agree with this statement but not the one below which directly contradicts it:

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They need to put pieces around him to do that. Can't be left wondering what he would have looked like with "better OL play" or "more pass catchers". They have to know.

I will say Bryce needs a serviceable LT or we might as well cut him now because he isn't making it through the season.  After we replace the starting LT, it is time to spend some draft capital and free agency money on the D.  

18 minutes ago, firefox1234 said:

^has Panthers taking Tyson at #19

 

 Not sure he is in the top ten but:

• His 9.99 RAS score, second among 1,512 tackles since 1987, isn't a gimmick. You see every bit of that explosiveness translate to the field when he kicks and slides in pass sets.

NFLDraftBuzz

Horrible first pick.  A 25 year old lightweight edge w/ short arms? Those picks also demand a quality LT in FA. Who would that be?  

5 hours ago, PleaseCutStewart said:

Honestly not that crazy. We spent big bucks on our 2 guards and he inherited a team from Fitterer that was completely void of talent at just about every position (while also not having picks because of trades by Fitterer). There are only so many picks we had and you can't fix every position group in a 2 year span

Not drafting oline on a regular basis is crazy.   It has five regular positions.  More than any other position and will make or break your team.  Morgan was in a tough position, but he made it worse with his first draft.  

Played w/ Evero in Denver in '22. This one makes sense if the price is right. Then go Oline, ILB, Oline in the draft.  Morgan has yet to draft an offensive lineman.  Crazy. 

1 minute ago, strato said:

It sure does. I can only find two little almost silver linings. And from his perspective they aren’t silver linings. 
He could have waited until camp to blow the tendon, or the first week or two of the year. At least we have a chance to adapt with the timing of it.

The extension that was planned for won’t happen and we can repurpose that money. Where if the injury happened in camp or in season, that was already signed and we are mega fuged. 
 

But it sure does throw a monkey wrench into whatever they had planned. 

...and here i was being negative lol.  You are right though. It could be much worse.  

14 hours ago, strato said:

I hear you but yeah like you say, above average. His numbers were good. You’d think it would be a no brainer.
Anyhow… I guess the new staff is also fine with him walking? 
 

I hope if we sign him there isn’t some secret issue of his that led to him not being valued.  

The tag for '26 is 28M. No way they tag him.  He is projected to be worth around 60M for 3 years so they could still try to sign him on an extension for about that amount: JagsWire

As someone else mentioned, the tag average factors in outside linebackers, aka, edge rushers, in the line backer formula.  If they would distinguish between olb and ilb, the ilb would get a lot less. 

On 2/19/2026 at 9:14 AM, strato said:

The question goes back to where they declined to pick up the 5th year. That wasn’t really a decision made because it was cost prohibitive, was it?

Tagging Devin Lloyd would be really expensive as CSX said.  28M.

9 hours ago, Mike2.0 said:

find an upgrade at LT via the draft or FA. 

Who exactly is going to start at left tackle for us from FA or the draft? Rasheed Walker is the best FA and is expected to command a four year 85M deal with a lot guaranteed, and we have to fight other teams for him.  We already have the most expensive line in the NFL.  That playoff game really screwed us pushing us back to pick 19 and costing us a franchise LT.  Dan Morgan will have to earn his money this offseason because i have no idea how we fill all of our holes.