Merrith
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Commanders: B+
It's a weird draft to grade, we only had 5 picks, but you have to factor in that some of the picks were used to bring in Deebo, Tunsil, and even Lattimore. That said, Conerly is a guy who should compete/win the starting job at RT for us, with Tunsil holding down the LT spot. This could improve another position by letting Coleman slide inside to guard, as well. Conerly played LT in college, too, so assuming eventually Tunsil leaves after a few years, he can take over the LT spot once he has a couple seasons of experience in the NFL. I saw a few mocks with us taking our 2nd round pick, Trey Amos, CB from Ole Miss in the 1st round at #29. To get a potentially starting outside CB at pick #61 is a steal, and it could let Sainristrl go back inside to his normal position. Add in a 4.34 speed WR who also is a return guy (which we needed), special teams/developmental LB in the 6th, and a potential RB steal in the 7th with Croskey-Merritt, and I think we did pretty well.
Would have loved a trade back at some point to either get another pick or two this year or next back (we traded next year's 2nd and 4th in the Tunsil deal), but apparently when they were getting calls to trade back they just liked Conerly and Amos too much at those spots to trade back. The way GMAP has rebuilt our OL and CB room in just 2 years is crazy good. Hopefully enough tweaks elsewhere to keep us in the contention mix. I would like to sign a vet pass rusher, still.
It's a weird draft to grade, we only had 5 picks, but you have to factor in that some of the picks were used to bring in Deebo, Tunsil, and even Lattimore. That said, Conerly is a guy who should compete/win the starting job at RT for us, with Tunsil holding down the LT spot. This could improve another position by letting Coleman slide inside to guard, as well. Conerly played LT in college, too, so assuming eventually Tunsil leaves after a few years, he can take over the LT spot once he has a couple seasons of experience in the NFL. I saw a few mocks with us taking our 2nd round pick, Trey Amos, CB from Ole Miss in the 1st round at #29. To get a potentially starting outside CB at pick #61 is a steal, and it could let Sainristrl go back inside to his normal position. Add in a 4.34 speed WR who also is a return guy (which we needed), special teams/developmental LB in the 6th, and a potential RB steal in the 7th with Croskey-Merritt, and I think we did pretty well.
Would have loved a trade back at some point to either get another pick or two this year or next back (we traded next year's 2nd and 4th in the Tunsil deal), but apparently when they were getting calls to trade back they just liked Conerly and Amos too much at those spots to trade back. The way GMAP has rebuilt our OL and CB room in just 2 years is crazy good. Hopefully enough tweaks elsewhere to keep us in the contention mix. I would like to sign a vet pass rusher, still.
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