Joel Klatt’s 2026 Mock Draft 2.0

And mock draft 2.0 come in straight at you. I don't think that there's any bigger riser after the combine than sunny styles. This guy is eight million miles per hour on every single snap. Jerry, take Caleb Downs, you will not regret it. I gotta tell ya, like I'm not a huge conspiracy theory guy. But boy, this worked out really well for the Ravens. (upbeat music) Touchdown. These fans are the best of the country. A day like today is why we love college football. (upbeat music) - Hey, welcome into the program. This is Joel Gladshow. I'm Joel Glad. This show is brought to you by Graduate by Hilton and we thank them for their support as always. Welcome into the program. We've got a big show for you here. Today it is mock draft 2.0 time here. Post combine, post free agency. We've got a better idea of what all these teams need in the National Football League. So we're gonna go through and we're gonna give them some players here in the first round. mock draft 2.0 coming straight at you. Just remember, if you have not subscribed on the YouTube channel, go ahead and do that. You can hit the notification button as well. And then follow us wherever you like to social media. We are there at Joel Gladshow out there. You can get all of our content in shorter form. All right, here we go. We roll forward towards the NFL draft and here we go. Combine was electric by the way. These guys all run in great times. We saw a great bunch of athletes. And then free agency has been wild. Obviously highlighted by the Max Crosby trade and then no, it's not gonna go down and where the Ravens being coy in that one. Probably they saved a lot of draft capital and still sign tray, Hendrixson. So here we go. Number one is the Raiders. They still have that first pick, obviously. And the Raiders are gonna go with Fernando Mendoza. I think we all kind of know that. Fernando Mendoza is gonna be a great fit for the Raiders. I believe in particular with the way that they're headed from a coaching standpoint and often to philosophy standpoint. They went out and paid top dollar for some free agents. Pro Bowler Center, Tyler Linderbaum. I think he's one of the best in the National Football League. He's up there for the rookie QB. They made him the highest paid interior alignment in the NFL. You building up that O line for Mendoza and for Ashton Gentie. Remember, they got Brock Bowers. All of a sudden, I kind of like what the Raiders are gonna look like. I know that hasn't been a lot of success over the last couple of years. But I think that they've got something and in particular with a guy like this who plays great in crunch time. Remember, his best, it comes forward when his best is required. That's his greatest trait. We saw it against Iowa. We saw it against Oregon. We saw it against Penn State. I will never forget calling that game. We saw it in the Big Ten Championship. And then we saw it down the stretch and more specifically in that championship game with that run on fork down. This guy is a winner. He just went 16 and O won the highest min trophy. And I think he's the perfect pick for Vegas right there at number one. All right, so now we're at the number two pick and the jets are on the clock. And I think this is kind of where the draft starts to be honest because we don't really know where the jets are going. But there's a player on the board that all fall has reminded me of Micah Parsons. And that is Arvel Reese from Ohio State. Arvel Reese is a sensational player. And I know he is just scratching the surface. Listen, this is a guy that played really as a starter for one year and was just learning how to play on the edge. He can play at the second level. He can play on the edge. He is an excellent pass rusher, whether he's rushing from the interior or on the edge on the outside. He's got bend. He's got athleticism. He's got explosiveness. If Sony styles didn't do just like absolute crazy wild things at the combine, we would have been talking about Arvel Reese's combine. So this is a guy with tremendous upside. I believe in his career, he could be a candidate for the defensive player of the year. I think he's that impactful. And so I don't think that the jets can pass up. Arvel Reese at number two. So he goes right there to the jets at number two. All right, so now we go to number three with the Arizona Cardinals. And I opted to go offensive lineman in 1.0. And here I'm going to switch gears here. I'm going to go edge rusher for the Arizona Cardinals. So I'm going to take David Bailey from Texas Tech. A lot of hype around David Bailey and rightly so. In the draft circles, I think that this guy is a game record on the edge. He had a tremendous year in his one year at Texas Tech. He was absolutely phenomenal. Bailey led the power for and sacks, tackles for loss last season. And the Cardinals need help in a lot of different areas, but certainly taking a player like Bailey is going to help that organization out. Then we go to number four with the Tennessee Titans. And all right, this is when it gets really interesting. Because here's the deal. We've talked a lot over the last few years about positional value. And specifically, how valuable is a running back? Well, wouldn't you agree with me that ever since we saw Sequon, Christian McCaffrey, and then followed up by Bijan Robinson and Jameer Gibbs, we've seen that these teams that take a chance and maybe draft a running back before conventional wisdom would tell them to draft a running back, it's worked out. Don't you think all of those teams are happy with those selections? Absolutely. And Tennessee is going to be thrilled with Jeremiah Love from Notre Dame. I think that's a great pick here. Brian Debal is in to run the offense. He gets a dynamic piece to surround. Cam Ward with love can run it and catch it. That's the mold of all of those guys that I just mentioned that have done a marvelous job over the last few years in the National Football League. And we've seen these running backs get taken in spots that maybe are a little high. This would be the first running back selected in the top five since Sequon Barkley. But I got to tell you, this guy is a home run hitter. I got to know him a little bit at the Duke Walker Awards ceremony down in Dallas here late in January. And I tell you, he wants to be great. He wants to go into the league and be the focal point of an offense. And I think he can be that at Tennessee. And that brings up the Giants at five. I tell you, the five spot and the six spot are interesting because here's the deal. I wanted to give the Giants Caleb Downs. I think he is a Harbaugh defender. I think he's perfect for Harbaugh. He fits the mold of all those smart, versatile safeties that the Ravens have had for years. Hamilton had Reed, so on and so forth. And yet there is a thought prevailing right now within some of the organizations that Downs might just be a little small. And yeah, that's, that's true. He's small compared to Hamilton. But I think it would be a mistake not to draft him. Having said that, I don't think that they're going to go in that direction. So why not give the Giants another pass catcher on the outside and specifically a guy that really fits with Jackson Dart. Jackson Dart wants to sling it down the field. And Carnell Tate is my number one wide receiver on the board. And he also happens to excel down the field in particular in 50/50 situations. So Carnell Tate is going to be the pick here for me at number five. Neighbors is coming off of that ACL. Adding Tate would lessen the burden on him. Neighbors set a rookie record by averaging 11 targets per game in 2024. And so maybe you don't have the volume out there to neighbors and he can stay more healthy. And they lost Wondell Robinson to free agency. So I think that the Giants can give Jackson Dart a threat here on the offensive side. And in particular, a guy that really fits with Jackson Dart. And here's the thing. And you're going to see this as I move forward in this mock draft 2.0 is that I think it's not just about, oh, who's the better player at that position? Because I think there's going to be some debate between Makai, the limiting Carnell Tate, but I think it's really about fit. And it's about personnel fit. It's not just philosophy or system, but it's also like, what does your quarterback do well? And what would he thrive with? We saw that with Jackson Smith and Jigba and Sam Darnold and Seattle this year. All the sudden, those two clicked, all right? The same can be said here for Tate and Jackson Dart. I think that that's a great marriage. It's a great fit. So Carnell Tate to the Giants at five. OK, six, the Browns. Oh, man. That brings us to the Browns. All right, here's the problem. And this, to be honest, so when you're doing these mock drafts full transparency, it's a puzzle. And you really want to be getting value with just overall ability, kind of a big board style value. But you also have to be fitting a position of need. Now, the Browns, they've got a hole at left tackle. And all the best offensive linemen in this draft are really right tackles. And there's a guy that is starting to inch up big boards. And he has had a really good process. And he was a left tackle. I think that the Browns might take Monroe Freeling from Georgia. He is a prototypical left tackle. And that is a very specific position of need. As the process goes on, I don't think it's a big reach. Now, will it shock some people if Monroe Freeling is the first overall offensive lineman on the board? Yes, yes, it would. But it's too hard for me. Listen, they've been very active. They brought in three starters on the old line, where they resigned another. Their hole is on the left tackle spot. I don't think Francis Maui Noah and Spencer Fano are great fits here. even though I would rate them higher as prospects because they're really right tackles. So I'm going to go free-ling at six to the Browns knowing that the Browns have another pick in the first round and they can maybe address another position, maybe a skill position later in the first, which they might do here later in this Mach 2.0. So that's really the first surprising one in full transparency, like that was the hardest selection doing this process. And finally, I just landed on the fact that I don't think it's a reach on ability and it's certainly a position of need. And now we move to number seven with the Washington commanders. I'm going to go with sunny styles here. Listen, he was widely considered a first round pick anyways, probably top half of the first round. I'm just going to put him inside of the top 10 here at number seven. Styles put on a show at the combine. He surges into the top 10, he's 65, 245 pounds. Remember, he's got a safety background. He started for a year at Ohio State at safety. So he's got lots of athleticism in the open field. He's a great leader. He can be the captain of your defense. He can be the green dot player, handle the communication. And he's also unbelievable. So like this is a good fit for the commanders, Washington was last in the league in total defense. And you get a guy that can be the centerpiece, the focal point of a defense, a real leader out there. And like I said, his versatility is off the charts, stemming back to that history where he was a safety in his first year starting at Ohio State. Probably a young guy, by the way, he came in started right away. He's a very young player with a still a an incredibly high upside. That goes to number eight now. Now the Saints are on the board and here's the deal with the Saints. They went out and improved their run game. They got Trevor ETN from Jacksonville. They got left guard David Edwards from Buffalo. So they're solidifying some of those parts of their offense with both the Saints and the chiefs signing free agent running backs. They had to figure and it happens to be the example here that Jeremiah love would not be available. So I think that they can go out and get Tyler Shuck, a really solid weapon to go and pair with Chris Olave. So I'm going to go McCoy lemon from USC. Lemon is a great space player. I don't think that there's a player in this draft that has the feel for space that McCoy lemon does. He operates in the middle of the field as well as anybody. He did so well for USC and that mold. This is a guy that just understands football. He understands coverage. He understands the green grass rules. He understands how to manipulate his own route structure in order to give his quarterback a better opportunity to complete the ball. And then he's really good with the football once it's in his hands. So McCoy lemon to the Saints really love that pick. And I think he's going to be a sensational player in the national football league again. The league is kind of transitioning a little bit. You know, it used to be that you had to have that big body wide receiver. But remember, the quarterbacks in the league have kind of transitioned to a more college oriented quarterback where you're going to have more point guards, you're going to, you're going to want short area quickness, get the ball out of your hand. This is why we've seen guys like Jackson Smith and Jigbo really thrive. And we've seen that for a number of years here in the league. Okay. Now we go to number nine with the Kansas City Chiefs. It's odd to see them picking inside of the top 10, but here they are. They have a glaring need at the cornerback spot. They signed Kenneth Walker. The running back from Seattle Travis Kelsey is coming back. They surround my homes with those two pieces. And now all the sudden they trade Trent McDuffy Seattle or excuse me. The Rams give him a giant contract and they lost Jalen Watson the other corner also to the Rams. They've got to take a corner. Good thing for them. Top corner on the board. Still there. Mansour Delane from LSU goes to the chief right here chiefs right here at number nine. This is too obvious. I think it's a great positional fit. It's also great value because I think he's the top corner in the draft and you can get them here at nine and fill a clear hole right there on the outside of the defense. Now the bangles are up. The bangles and the browns were hard for me. I look up and they've had this tray Henderson saga going on for a while. They went out and they gave a boy a mafia 20 million per year to fill that hole. I look at this and I can't get over what I saw in the college football playoff. And here's the deal. I don't think anybody in the NFL will ever say to themselves we just have too many past rushers. I don't think that's a thing. And if Rubin Bain is there with the film that he produced in particular in the playoffs. I kind of like Rubin Bain to the Cincinnati bangles. Depth at edge again you're never going to complain with guys that can get after the pass or play hard Rubin Bain here's my my favorite part about Rubin Bain's game is that he's not just a hey we have them behind the sticks now all play hard and try to get a quarterback pressure. This guy is 8 million miles per hour on every single snap. I do not care about his arm length not one bit watch him play turn on the tape. He is a football playing Jesse the guy gets after it. He plays great against the run. You improve your defense with Rubin Bain on the edge and I like Rubin Bain to the bangles right there at 10. Now we go to 11 and and here's the deal. You might be thinking to yourself like okay. There's some really good offensive lineman on the board and the dolphins let's be candid about this. They need help everywhere and their cap issues are enormous. They released to a and his 99 million dollar cap hit oh my goodness. They've been shedding contracts this offseason Tyree kill Bradley Chubb. They were both released. They traded make of its Patrick. They brought in Malik Willis to be their quarterback. They have a need at right tackle and a guy right down the road that excelled at right tackle and you talk about great playoff tape like Bain his teammate Francis Maui Noah great playoff tape great playoff tape. There's this idea that he's just a run greater and he's not a great past protector. I don't buy into that. I think he can develop into a great past protector. People believe that he's not maybe athletic enough or has enough side to side movement lateral movement to be a left tackle. I don't totally buy into that but hey listen you put him at right tackle. I think he can flourish right away and again he's right there. He's right down the road and so Francis Maui Noah to the Miami dolphins and again Miami needs all sorts of help. This is a great value. He would be the best player on the board and he fits a position of need. And by the way he's cheap and they need cheap players. All right. Number 12. Cowboys. I'm going to stick with exactly what I did in the in the mock draft 1.0 because as you go through this I want Caleb Downs to go earlier than this and I think that he is good enough to go earlier than this but I think he lands with the Cowboys. Downs is sensational. I got to tell you like they gave up the most points in the league a year ago and they could have a ready made leader that falls into their laps and he's one of the more versatile players that I've seen on defense and college football in a long time. I know that there's some concerns about his size but guys guys again like can we get away from the measuring stick and just turn on the tape watch him play the game of football. The entire defense at Ohio State was built around Caleb Downs. He was a five star player goes to Alabama. He was immediately a all SEC caliber player led the Crimson Tide and tackles as a true freshman. Then he transfers to Ohio State the center piece of a defense that wins the national championship and then he was the center piece of a defense that led the nation and defense. Don't overthink it and maybe you might be thinking to yourself like don't the Cowboys over always overthink it. Yeah they do but this is just too obvious like hey Jerry take Caleb Downs you will not regret it and again your defense needs some help they've got another pick later in this round at 20 and I think they can continue to bolster their roster. That goes to now 13 Rams from Atlanta Rams have been aggressive man this past week. So their past defense obviously gotten a lot better. They acquired Trent McDuffie they signed Jalen Watson both from Kansas City. Not a bad idea when you face JSN by the way two or three times a year for the foreseeable future. He torched that secondary every time that they played Devonte Adams by the way getting a little bit older your 13 will be turning 34th the end of the year and what he excelled at was red zone targets touchdown targets Matt Stafford is not going to play forever. The reigning MVP still has a lot of juice left at least in my estimation and there's a player to man I just I I love the thought of Sean McVay having Kenyan Cedeak the tight end from Oregon on his roster because he's so versatile. He's a great blocker but he's also incredibly athletic and a tight end is always a quarterbacks best friend when you get into the red zone you get to those targets headed towards the end zone and if Adams is going to be a little bit long in the tooth and get a little older now the Sun you have another target in there to capture the middle of the field his athleticism is off the charts he works hard in the run game great leader I love talking with the coaching staff at Oregon about Kenyan Cedeak and one of the things that Dan landing immediately said and he stressed in our meeting before the game that we called against Northwestern was like, "Yeah, hey, Sadiq is amazing." But he said, "You all like me?" Make sure you go back and watch the cut up tape of him just as a blocker. And so I did. And it was impressive, man. This guy gets after it. He's not just a good blocker. I think he can be a great blocker. What does that do? Well, it gives you so much versatility as an offensive play collar. You can sit in there, keep tight ends on the field and you can run the football well. You can get to that play action game, which is what they thrive in under Sean McVeigh. And Sadeek becomes a really valuable target. So for Sadeek at 13, he's rising up draft boards. I think there's good value. I think that this is a good fit with the play collar and the quarterback. So Sadeek at 13 to the ramp. That's one of my favorite picks here of this mock 2.0 Ravens are up a week ago. This looked like it was going to the Raiders, but now the the Ravens sitting here. I got to tell you, like, I'm not a huge conspiracy theory guy. But boy, this worked out really well for the Ravens, right? Like they were going to have to give up to first for Max Crosby and then all of a sudden they're looking out there and they're like, hold on a second. So we can get Hendrickson and keep those two first round picks. And all we have to do is say that Crosby's knee is not quite ready. I mean, a touch nefarious, a touch, a touch. Not going to go there, but I just went there, I guess. Some questions about maybe the offensive line and I love Spencer Fano. I think Spencer Fano is a good fit for the Ravens, giving Lamar Jackson more help in front of him. Never a bad idea. And I think Fano is a really, really good player. Now he could slide to this point. Now he could get selected before this. There's no doubt. I think he's good enough. I think what hurts him in this process is generally speaking late before the draft. GM's head coach's decision makers in the NFL will go to a specific game. And generally they will go to a matchup game. It's not enough to just dominate lesser competition. They will go and say, okay, how did he play when he played against the best players that he played against all year? That was easily the game against Texas Tech when he had the block guy like David Bailey who I've already selected in this draft. Now was not great in that game against David Bailey in Texas Tech. And Utah struggled offensively because of it. I think that would be a reason where he would fall to here. But you would still feel like there's good value if you're the Ravens at 14. So Spencer Fano at 14 to the Baltimore Ravens. Bucks are up. Bucks lost a couple of longtime veterans. Mike Evans, Jamille Dean, both on the outside, one a wide receiver, one a corner. They still have a need at edge. I like that. I like that direction. How about Keldrick Falk from Auburn right here to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? I think Falk is a really good player. Great athlete. Tone of upside long. He's six six 275 pounds. I think he's a good fit here. I think we're only seeing just the beginning of what he could potentially turn into down the road. I think that this guy is a versatile pass rusher on your defensive front. And he fits with Tampa Bay. So Keldrick Falk fills an edge need right here at 15 16. The Jets. This one's from the Colt. So their second pick in the first round. Now the the Jets. I still think they need a quarterback. I know that they signed Geno Smith, but come on, like that's not a long term answer. He'll be 36 in the fall coming off of a rough season. I don't think that this is something that they're like, okay, we're set. And with two picks in the first, you know, I can't get Ty Simpson out of my head. And Ty Simpson. Here's my knock on Ty Simpson. It's actually not his size because he makes great throws outside of the numbers and down the field. That's what I would be concerned with with a small quarterback is like, hey, can you make those throws? He makes those throws. Just again, go to the tape. Get off of the measuring stick. Go to the tape. He makes incredible throws. He's played big and big moments on the road against George on the road against Oklahoma in the playoffs. I know he didn't play as best in some other games and they were somewhat, if not completely quarterback centric at Alabama, which was a little bit strange to see, but they were. The Jets acquired this pick in the sauce garden or trade. They also get Indies first round pick next year. They've got a ton of draft capital. Therefore they can take a bit of a flyer here and they don't have to play him right away. So the knock for me. I'm sorry. I didn't even get to the knock. It's not his size. It's his lack of experience. I'd love to see him have more starts. I talk about it all the time. These guys that have success in the NFL, they've got a ton of starts under their belt from college. He doesn't have that. But would you know he doesn't have to start right away. So then you can get him some experience on the roster as a backup. Now do you want to first round back up? Yeah, maybe not. But again, you've got all that draft capital. So that's where I landed on Thai Simpson. I think that developing him for a year behind Gino could really serve them well. They can build their roster with some of these other picks that they've gotten the next couple of years. Lions at 17. Also a tough pick. I didn't I didn't love this. It appears that all pro Pinae Sule is going to make the switch from right tackle to left tackle. Taylor Decker requested a trade and then was released. They signed a Borum from Miami, but that's not a long term fix. I think Blake Miller, the offensive tackle from Clemson makes a lot of sense here. I'm going to go with Blake Miller. I think he's a really good player. A lot of these Clemson guys and we'll see more of them here at the back end of the first round. I think they got hurt because of the high expectations that Clemson had and they fell short of that. By the way, those high expectations really started. Well, maybe not started, but we bought in right here. I had them preseason winning the national championship. Nice pick, clap. Nice pick. He's got a ton of experience. He started all four years at right tackle, plug and play in there for Detroit. So Miller to the Lions at 17. Eighteenth pick, the Vikings, Minnesota has a huge need now at defensive tackle. They released their two starters from last year, Jonathan Allen and a Javan Hargrave. In order to free up cap space, they had to do that. I get it. That's the business of the sport. Now they can draft a replacement and he's going to be much cheaper. Peter Woods from Clemson. So here we go with the Clemson guys. It's Blake Miller at 17 and then Peter Woods at 18. He's a talented guy. When the last year, I thought he was going to be a top 10 pick at the beginning of the year. But again, they fell short of expectations. So now I feel like if you just evaluate it and you look at his entire body of work, you would feel like this is a good value and a very specific need for the Vikings. So I like Peter Woods. I think he's a really good player and he can help them at 18. At 19, the Panthers are on the board and they lost their starting left tackle, Aquanu to that rupture, rupture Patel or tendon in the playoffs when they lost to the Rams. He's likely to miss the season. I like the idea of surrounding Bryce Young with talent and that talent doesn't have to be on the outside. They also need to protect him up front. How about Caden Proctor from Alabama? After if he's there at 19, this would feel like very good value. Proctor is an athletic left tackle, despite being six, seven, 350 pounds. You know, who knows? Maybe he gets selected all the way up there like with the Browns pick and it's not thrilling, but it's proctor. I don't know. But if he's here at 19, I really like the idea of giving Bryce Young more protection up front. So Caden Proctor at 19 to the Panthers. Now the Cowboys are on the clock for their second pick here in this first round. It's number 20. This one was from Green Bay Dallas. I have them taking Caleb downs, love that pick. Don't overthink it. Now, the second pick in the first round, the defense was not good at all. And in particular, the past defense, guess what? There's this player and he's coming off of injury, didn't play a lot last year. If he was healthy and working out, you could make a strong argument that he would be in the conversation with Mansor Delane as the top corner in the draft. He did not work out of the combine. He is going to work out at his pro day, pending that workout. Watch out for Jermad McCoy from Tennessee. If all the sudden Dallas came out of the first round, after doing what they did and past defense a year ago, and they came out of the first round with Caleb downs, who I think is the best defender in the draft, overall, overall. And a guy that they could get at 20 that you could, in theory, say, is the top corner in the draft. That would be incredible. I think that would be, listen, if this is what happens, I think Dallas would win the first round of the draft and all those draft grades right after. If he's back to himself after the injury, it's an ACL. If he's back and he has a good workout, man, like watch out, watch out. Because again, that is great value as he slipped because of the injury. They get him at 20, pair him with downs. Now you've got this young secondary that could be one of the better secondaries in the league in the next couple of years. So watch out for that from the Cowboys. I really love that pick. What's up, Clutch Show fans? 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That's 10% off any tickets with promo code clat10. Make sure you click the link in the description to download the app and have the code automatically added to your account so you can use it later on. Shout out to SeatGeek for sponsoring today's show. 21 the Steelers. Okay, so there's a guy left on the board that I'm just like, I know he's not gonna be available here. Like come on clat, like put the pieces together. What are we doing? And yet in this mock, he's available. And he's right down the road. Steelers acquired Michael Pitman from the Colts. He pairs up with DJ Metcalf. If Vania, Ioannia is on the board, they should run to the podium and take him, play to Penn State, best interior offensive lineman in the draft. And I don't think that's even close. So again, is he here at 21? Probably not. But man, I love that pick for the Steelers. I mean, love that pick. Nasty, athletic, tough, really good player. Look at him move. If you're watching YouTube right now, Penn State always did some really creative things with him, where they would put him in motion. You'd crack back on the interior defensive lineman. It was a sight to see man. They would do it in a short yardage. You're watching it right now again on YouTube. If you're not on YouTube, I suggest go there. You can hit that subscribe, subscribe button and you get all these episodes and the video production. William, just hitting the UCLA Bruins. Sorry, Bruins, Vance. Sorry, you see your guy get absolutely laid out. Ioannia right here to the Steelers. They lost their left guard, Isaac, say, you mulled a free agency to Arizona. This would be a plug and play fit. I love this idea. Ioannia staying in state and going to Pittsburgh. Is he going to be available? I don't know. I don't know, but I think it would be cool if he was. All right, 22 the chargers. All right, this is a philosophy pick. I know Jesse Minter is not there, but Chris O'Leary, their new defensive coordinator is riding that mentor trees in the Harbaugh tree. Jim's not going to, he's not going to go wholesale change philosophically or schematically from what they've done defensively on that side. One of their principles and Jim used to talk about that. This with us all the time when he was the head coach of Michigan and we met with him so many times, he would always start, always start with, you got to build a run wall. Before you can do anything defensively, you got to build a run wall. Then you can produce hard edges. Then you can have hybrid players run at the second level and cover corners on the outside, but it always starts with a run wall so that you can get the opponent into obvious passing situations. They can do that right here with Lee Hunter from Texas Tech. I think this is a great fit. Lee Hunter had a really solid season and is one year at Texas Tech. He's only six three, but he's 320 pounds. I think this is a philosophical fit. It's a schematic fit. And this is a guy that I think is a very, very good player. So Lee Hunter to the chargers at 22. The Eagles are up at 23. All right, so here's what's going on with the Eagles. They've drafted so well. They're a victim of their own success because now all these guys are itching for contracts and they can't pay them all. And we've seen that. So how are you Roseman? It's going to have to find a way to thread this needle where they're keeping who they want to keep and yet getting younger and cheaper elsewhere in particular on their defense. They lost some talent over there in particular in the defense of front seven in free agency. They lost Jalen Phillips, Nikobe Dean. They've got several players due for extensions, including Jordan Davis. They just made him the highest paid nose tackle in the NFL. Guys coming down the road for contracts include Jalen Carter, Quinion Mitchell and Cooper Dejean. All right, so I don't think they're going to be able to pay everybody. I think they go back to that defensive front seven and they load up on a guy that I really loved and particular with the way that he played down the stretch really all year, but certainly down the stretch in a run to the national championship game, a key mezzador from Miami. That makes sense for me. That makes sense for me because they're a, they're a film based organization. They draft guys that produce, that play hard, that are really good effective players in the front seven. That was mezzador. He was terrific on that playoff run for Miami. And so I like Philadelphia taking mezzador at 23. 24. Oh, this is also a really fun pick. I love this pick. Okay, remember, what was it? Six, I think it was. Like I could not figure out the left tackle issue for the Browns at six. I wanted to give them a wide receiver, but in my mock, Tate was already off the board in the previous pick with the Giants. Okay, so what do we need to do? You need to get a threat on the outside here. So you got the left tackle and freeing earlier in the first round. And now at 24, what do you need? You need a threat. There's a guy that I've really loved covering certainly, and he has been rising up draft boards during this process. And again, go to the film man. The film is so good. Omar Cooper from Indiana. I think Omar Cooper would be a really good fit here. They have a need at wide receiver. Cooper has been really great in this process. I've loved his tape. He's really good in short area. He can create space. He catches the ball well in traffic. He's got great body control. There's the play. Again, you got to get to YouTube. There was the play, got the foot back down. You know, Gus and I are losing our minds in the booth. Here it is again, in slow motion. He rises. He goes up is the foot coming down as a foot coming down. Yes, it is in. I mean, it's an insane catch. And because of that, like this guy knows how to play. I like giving the Browns a threat on the outside. And again, he's very good with the ball in his hands. I thought he was the best in the big 10 with the ball in his hands post catch. So Browns go Omar Cooper right there. All right, 25 bears are up. I think the bears would have loved a guy like Omar Cooper. And I look at them and they traded away DJ more. They got a second round pick back from Buffalo. They can grab a replacement right here on the outside. How about Jordan Tyson from Arizona State? I like that. Jordan Tyson is a big body guy. I love him. He can team him up with Roman Medunze and Colson Loveland for Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson's offense. I like the idea of big targets for Caleb Williams because you remember Caleb is going to improvise. He played within the structure of the offense better than he has in his career this last year. That's why he flourished. But he's always still going to improvise, even in that playoff game. He's making incredible plays outside of the pocket. Well, when that happens, I think the guys that really make a lot of sense are big body guys. Colson Loveland, big body, Roman Medunze. He's a bigger player. He can body people up. Then you got Jordan Tyson as well. I think that's a good fit. Jordan Tyson to the bears. They're at 25. All right, 26 with the bills. So they get DJ Moore from Chicago. Less of a priority here on the outside at wide receiver for Josh Allen. And they've got a new defensive coordinator. So Jim Linnard is a guy that I've always loved. I think he is a really, really smart guy. And he values smart secondary players that can run, be versatile, and a guy that ran as well as anybody in the combine is Dylan Theeneman, the safety from Oregon. I know what you're going to say. It's like, oh, we get it, Joel. Jim Linnard, the defensive coordinator is going to get like a version of himself. Yeah, I get it. I get it. And yeah, it does make too much sense. And that's why I gave them Dylan Theeneman, right? I think that this is a really good player. Dan landing loved him. I think he's a versatile guy. He's willing to stick his nose in there. He can make plays. He can anticipate. And I think him with Linnard is a good fit there on the defensive side for the bills at 26. Some interesting picks here now down the stretch of the first round. The 49ers are up at 27. They brought in Mike Evans to add to the receiver group. I think it's basically a one year deal. It's kind of disguised as a three year deal with the guaranteed money. I think they need to start figuring out what they're doing on the offensive line post-Trent Williams. I think this is an issue. So for me, this is a lineman pick. And you do still have some value with the way that this is played out here in 2.0. Caleb Lomo from Utah still on the board. Great spot right there. They need that. Lomo would be the second Utah tackle off the board in the first round. Really good player. Strong. And these Utah offensive lineman, they're ready to play. They develop them really well at the University of Utah and Jim Harding, their offensive line coach has done a great job. He's now at Michigan and MacKyle, winning him on their coaching staff. But Lomo here to San Francisco at 27. I think that could be an interesting pick. 28. OK, so a little bit of a run on offensive lineman, because the Texans would be sitting there. And they would love to take Caleb Lomo. Maybe they would move up a pick to do that. But then you've got, I think, maybe one more guy that I think would not raise eyebrows if he was taken in the first round. I think he's talented enough. Max Pianachor. Max Pianachor is a really good player from Arizona State. Right. Pfizer through this process, he's had a very good process, the Texans traded for running back David Montgomery from Detroit, they added the right tackle, Braden Smith from the Colts. It's really a one year deal based on the guaranteed money they have, uh, uh, uh, urserie at left tackle in their second round. They can continue to build on the offensive line. There's one thing that we realized watching the Texans is that they don't need defensive help and you need to give Stroud offensive help. I think he needs that in the form of protection, um, Ian Ochoer is, is the guy that I would take there at 28, 29 chiefs back on the clock. All right. So the chiefs traded, uh, cornerback, Trent McDuffie to the Rams, promptly made him the highest paid corner in football. Earlier, I have them taking men's or delaying. He would be the top corner corner in the draft there in the top 10. And now you're sitting here and you can continue to bolster that secondary after all of those exits. And like that opportunity for them, remember, they addressed the offense and free agency with Kenneth Walker. So you go defense here, a manual, a war in the safety from Toledo. I really love his game. He can inject more talent into that defense youth as well as a cheap contract. I mean, that, let's face it. That's where Kansas City is at right now. And he certainly can help them where they need to be helped. He's a cheap version and I think he's a really good player there at 29, a manual McNeill Warren from Toledo to the chiefs 30 with the Broncos. Okay. This is a, this is a fun one because I had CJ Allen in my first mock and yet the Broncos decided to, to sign their linebackers, Sternod, Singleton, both free agents. They signed those guys. Um, I think they need more juice on the offensive side of the ball. You have to remember that I am from Denver. I watch all the Bronco games and I really love Nix. And yet there's, there's something about the Nix Cortland Sutton match and fit that is just not quite there. I think Sutton is a really good player, but Nix is a point card and short area quickness is where I think he would thrive with the target that could give him that since they don't technically need this linebacker anymore, even though I thought that they were going to in, in mock 1.0 here, there's a, there's a guy that ran really well at the combine. He can provide some of that short area quickness and here's the deal. He's not just a slot player. He can also play outside. I'm talking about Casey Concepcion from Texas A&M. I thought about Denzel Boston here, but there's too much similarity with Cortland Sutton. Like I said, that model wide receiver has not quite gelled with Nix. No, it's not bad, but it hasn't quite gelled. Remember, I go back to this fit and player position, player wide receiver fit matters. That's why I gave Jackson Dart carnal tape. That's why Sam Donnell flourished with Jackson Smith and Jigba and vice versa. So Concepcion would give the Broncos a guy that really fits what Bowen Nix would be strong at. I like that pick. They need some more juice on that offensive side. Davis Webb comes in as offensive coordinator. So Broncos take a wide receiver there at 30. Now we got the two Super Bowl teams of Patriots at 31. They made a run at Alex Pearson free agency, but he went back to Indianapolis. They went out and signed Romeo Dobbs from Green Bay on the outside. So there's less of a wide receiver need with this pick. It wouldn't be surprised if they grabbed one later in the draft, but here, I think that there's some value and you get a little bit of a run here on Aggies because I've got Concepcion going at 30. And I'm going to go cash is howl on the edge right here at 31 to New England. Again, howl's gotten this knock for short arms. Just watch his tape. Man, the guy was one of the more productive pass rushers in all of college football on the tough league. So how, for me, makes a lot of sense with the Patriots and in particular with Vrabel who is going to like a guy like howl, so howl to the Patriots at 31 and that brings us to the Super Bowl champs, the Seahawks at 32, lost some key pieces off of their title winning team. Kenneth Walker of course gone. William Moffay, Rick Wolland, Kobe Bryant off the defense. They're going to be trying to reload in this draft. John Schneider has always done a really good job in the draft. He's more of the more successful evaluators in the national football league. And there's some great value right here with a guy that can play on the edge. And TJ Parker from Clemson again, another Clemson player probably has more value than this. But because they fell short of expectations, you can grab him here. I really like that pick right here. He's a talented player. He could be a, I think a steal at this point for a team that can plug him in and provide some more electricity for that defense. I really love that defense. You get another guy that can impact the quarterback. Remember, they still have to deal with Stafford now. They still have to deal with Stafford. That was the Super Bowl. The NFC championship was the Super Bowl. And you can make a strong argument with how solid San Francisco is. Maybe outside of Philly and I don't know, maybe another team of the NFC, but it's like the NFC West is where the strength of the NFC is. And if you're going to have to sit there and you're going to have to face Kyle Shanahan's offense and you're going to have to face Sean McVase offense and you're going to have to face these types of players like Stafford. Why not have another pass rusher? So I like that right there. TJ Parker, last pick in the draft or excuse me in the first round, 32 to the Seahawks. Hey, remember, subscribe to the show over on YouTube. 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