This should have been our pick

[Stuart Smith]

18 hours ago, NAS said:

We were all screaming for it too, was so obvious, what was Dan thinking?

 

“Former NC State LB Payton Wilson is on pace to break the Pittsburgh Steelers' single-season tackles record. 

The second-year player's 8.4 tackles per game would total 142.8, which would top James Farrior's 141 from 2003.”

He had an injury history at NC State that evidently made them leery. He went to a high school 10 miles from me, he was a heck of a player in high school as you would imagine. He tore his ACL during his senior year in high school and re-tore it again soon after arriving at State. He had season ending surgery in 2021 after having surgery on both shoulders in the offseason. He did play 2 full, healthy seasons to end his college career. 

[Proudiddy]

21 hours ago, Navy_football said:

Not gonna lie, the first 3 picks in that draft were... confusing. Not necessarily who we picked, but more who we didn't pick and was surprisingly still on the board.

I knew Wilson would slide a little because of the injury history, and I didn’t know what we were gonna do with our first pick, but I was absolutely sure we were gonna take him either with that one or whatever it took to get back up in the 2nd or 3rd to grab him.  It just made too much sense.  I know there was a lot of hype coming out of our camp for him too.  And then the draft happened and it was like there was absolutely no urgency…  again, it just made too much sense and we blew it.  And then when PIT took him, and him being a LB l, I knew everything I thought he was, he was going to be.  fugin sucks.

[Navy_football]

But I will say I was pretty much lock step with their 2025 draft. The only picks I really questioned was Etienne (Billy Bowman made more sense to me than another RB) and Jimmy Horn (Tez Johnson seemed like the better choice) but it was the right idea/WR type to me.

[countryboi]

3 hours ago, Navy_football said:

But I will say I was pretty much lock step with their 2025 draft. The only picks I really questioned was Etienne (Billy Bowman made more sense to me than another RB) and Jimmy Horn (Tez Johnson seemed like the better choice) but it was the right idea/WR type to me.

Etienne was was about to Cam Skattebo, They really like him and he was selected about 9 picks before our pick.

[csx]

Drafting with hindsight is so easy!

[Panthera onca]

Morgan claims to want Dawgs. Wilson defines that term.

[Navy_football]

3 hours ago, csx said:

Drafting with hindsight is so easy!

The point is it isn't hindsight. These are guys a lot of us wanted before and during the draft.