Some Monday Thoughts On Round One, After seeing Jeremiah's Top 50

[mayoclinic]

I think Iheanachor, Delp and Keyron Crawford are very similar prospects. Plenty of flashes, plenty of unrealised upside but haven’t put it all together enough to be easily provable succcesses. I like all three, but I don’t think they’re necessarily walking onto the roster day one and being roster changers.

I’d draft all three in the expectation they live up to their upside but I’d also be a little cautious too.

I think you might want a mix of traits/upside with experience/readiness.

Examples:

- Blake Miller/Keylan Rutledge at OL with Keyron Crawford at EDGE

- Max Iheanachor at OL with DDS or Gabe Jacas at EDGE

I wouldn't use all 3 day 1-2 picks on high ceiling guys who need development time.

 

[mgteich]

Here's Dane Brugler's top 300 from yesterday, for comparison:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/interactive/the-beast-2026/top-300-prospect-rankings/

If you look at Brugler's list and assume the top 25 are gone, you still have:

26 Denzel Boston
27 Aveion Terrell
28 Akheem Mesidor
29 Blake Miller
30 Colton Hood
31 TJ Parker
32 Kayden McDonald
33 Max Iheanachor
34 Chase Bisontis

Plus Caleb Banks (52), Keylon Rutledge (62), Treydan Stukes (56), Jake Golday (48) and Jacob Rodriguez (40).

Even if Mesidor, Miller, Iheanachor and McDonald are off the board, there are a number of attractive prospects worth taking at 31 if we can't trade down.

The Pats should have some solid options.

I'll presume that Boston is also gone.

Parker
Howell
Faulk
Allen
Price
Terrell
Hood
Bisontis
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Who would you be comfortable picking at 31?
We could juat pick the next player on Vrabel's board no matter how far his from he is from BPA per various lists.

I like Parker, but even then, a trade down might be better since we would have the extra pick plus be able to get one of these.
Jacas
Banks
Rutledge
Golday
Rodriguez
Stukes

 

[mayoclinic]

I'll presume that Boston is also gone.

Parker
Howell
Faulk
Allen
Price
Terrell
Hood
Bisontis
============
Who would you be comfortable picking at 31?
We could juat pick the next player on Vrabel's board no matter how far his from he is from BPA per various lists.

I like Parker, but even then, a trade down might be better since we would have the extra pick plus be able to get one of these.
Jacas
Banks
Rutledge
Golday
Rodriguez
Stukes

Right now my big board at 31 looks something like (excluding concensus top-25 prospects):

Max Iheanachor
Blake Miller
[Caleb Lomu]
Keylan Rutledge
Akheem Mesidor
Kayden McDonald
Caleb Banks
Emmanuel McNeil-Warren
Treydan Stukes
Jake Golday
Jacob Rodriguez
TJ Parker
Gabe Jacas

I would probably take Iheanachor or Miller at 31 without hesitation. After that, I'd look hard at who is available and think seriously about trade-down offers.

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

I'm not sure "fingers crossed" is the right approach to filling your biggest need.

Right.
You can't do it all, but if you look at our current roster, and factor in how bad our pass rush was last year, I am not comfortable crossing my fingers at the Edge position.
Would much rather cross my fingers at RT.

 

[sg14]

Right now my big board at 31 looks something like (excluding concensus top-25 prospects):

Max Iheanachor
Blake Miller
[Caleb Lomu]
Keylan Rutledge
Akheem Mesidor
Kayden McDonald
Caleb Banks
Emmanuel McNeil-Warren
Treydan Stukes
Jake Golday
Jacob Rodriguez
TJ Parker
Gabe Jacas

I would probably take Iheanachor or Miller at 31 without hesitation. After that, I'd look hard at who is available and think seriously about trade-down offers.

Why the parentheses?