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I don't foresee them getting a 1st round pick for him but I've been wrong before. Would be an interesting buy-lowish candidate for a team like Miami, Jacksonville, or Baltimore though.

It should be a choice between Fields and Lance IMO. Philosophically, I think you ask yourself if you believe it's easier to teach a promising young QB a new system (Fields) or take the promising young QB who's already comfortable in the system and coach up his footwork and accuracy (Lance). I don't think they can really go wrong between those two personally. I have a slightly higher grade on Fields but I think Lance will transition to the 49ers system more smoothly than Fields would. Might depend on if they truly want to keep Jimmy for this year or not; I think both can and probably should start as rookies but as I said, I think it's probably a smoother transition for Lance so if they took him, they could theoretically cash in on Jimmy in a trade now. With Mac, you're probably confident that he can run Shanahan's scheme, but aside from being a decisive passer, he hasn't really done the things that Shanahan expects of his QBs and he doesn't have the tools to excite teams either, so to me, he's a relatively low floor low ceiling option.

They don't really need another offensive lineman IMO. All the starting spots are spoken for and they have solid depth now too. WR and Defense IMO is where they can get potential immediate upgrades.

I'd be surprised if he's not at LT. Probably move Remmers back over to the right tackle and they have themselves a good line again.

Based on the DraftTek trade chart it's basically the equivalent of KC trading a 2nd round pick for Brown. Pretty good deal for both parties IMO. Wonder what Baltimore ends up doing with their two firsts. Could theoretically move up from where they are if they want to.

He has a point, and if it wasn't coming from Brady, nobody would really care about this non-story. He's probably exaggerating how significant the change will be, but it likely will make it at least a little tougher on the OLines, and it's not like there's anything really to be gained from the rule change outside of some more revenue for the league as players change their numbers. This was likely a "break glass in case of emergency" rule for the NFL if they ever lost revenue like they did this past season.

Granted OKC is barely an NBA team but still, really impressive. I didn't think he had it in him. I saw he got himself a 3 year deal with Indiana after that (though I'm guessing at least 1 if not 2 of the years are basically non-guaranteed). Really happy to see him proving himself.

It isn't an immediate need, but depending on who you take they could conceivably replace McKenzie's role this year or be in line for a significant role the following year.

This isn't really something that can be proven considering we don't have Beane's board. At any rate, I feel like every team says they draft BPA and it just so happens that the BPA in their opinion is something they need lol.

I would tend to agree with Dane's grade on him...I'd just much rather let another team be the one that takes him. I don't think I'd really take any of the DTs in this class outside of maybe Barmore.

As someone that was extremely high on Burrow and relatively low (3rd round grade) on Mac, I actually don't think Burrow's arm is much better in terms of velocity. But he was a far more accurate passer than Mac, far better moving around in the pocket, and significantly better in his reads (though Mac is quite good in this regard).

Amari Rogers is still on the board right now right? I think he'd probably be my pick at this point.

Lol no problem. In order: Nico Collins Jevon Holland: one of them said they think he's the best pure safety in the class; that's the entire comment. Dylan Moses: Christian Barmore Nick Bolton

Not endorsing the pick by any means but I do think Etienne looks like a 4.4 guy when he gets space to run. The YPC kinda showed how much even a great college RB needs the OLine though. They took a significant step back this season and his production dropped off a lot because of it.

Etienne is definitely a big play threat. For me personally, I'm just against the idea of drafting RBs early in general and especially in this case where we've done it the last two years (and IMO have at least one starting caliber RB in Moss). I also think with an offense that spreads the defense out and tries to get them to put smaller defenders on the field, you want a powerful runner like Moss or Harris to make them pay rather than trying to put more speed on the field in Etienne. Having said that, I'll think it's the wrong choice if we go with Etienne but I at least understand he's a different kind of RB from the ones we have (outside of maybe Breida but we don't really know how big a part of the offense we plan to make him anyways) and therefore would give us a different look. So from that sense, it's justifiable even if I just think it's the wrong way to build a team. I don't think Harris is really a justifiable pick.

Kellen Mond: Re: Mac Jones:

I will grant that Etienne would be a different type of back for us (though maybe Breida can do some of the same stuff), but regarding Harris (who I view as the better prospect between the two both in general and specifically for our offense), I'm not sure there's much of a difference between him and Moss. Piecing together their scouting reports from Dane Brugler, who had Moss as his #6 RB last year with a 3rd round grade while he has Harris #1 with a 1st-2nd round grade: Moss: Strengths: Elite contact balance, keeps feet moving through contact Punishing finisher, bounces off hits like they're nothing Agile runner with lateral cut-and-go skills Patient, but decisive once the opening appears Competitive pass blocker, squares up and slows pass-rushers Productive pass catcher Creates explosive plays Weaknesses: Average start/stop acceleration Not great speed, can be caught from behind Durability concerns, suffered a bunch of leg injuries Harris: Strengths: Impressive contact balance Aggressive finisher Keeps his momentum moving forwards through contact Patience at the line of scrimmage but makes strong cuts when the opening appears Complete skills as a pass catcher Squares up blitzers as a pass blocker Only 3 fumbles at Alabama Weaknesses: More quick than sudden as an athlete Not great speed, can't run away from defenders Doesn't create explosive plays Sometimes late to decipher running lanes/runs into his own blockers Inconsistent pass blocker Some injury concerns with various leg injuries Their scouting reports read like pretty much identical players with the differences being that Harris fumbled it 3 times compared to Moss' 6, Harris is a better receiver (though it was a strength of Moss's as well), and Moss was the more explosive runner and better pass protector. I don't really see any reason to think Harris is a transcendent talent unless you're similarly high on Moss who we already have.

Seems like a lot of people also think he was kinda like how we've seen Hughes the last couple years; a lot of pressures and disruptive plays but not quite able to get the sacks. As one of the guys mentioned in the OP, he hit the Indiana QB an insane number of times but never recorded a sack. I didn't watch much film on him but from what I did see, I would agree with Gunner's assessment; seems to be able to turn his speed into power well but if that doesn't work, he doesn't really know what to do from there yet.

One of the WR coaches also mentions regarding Seth Williams that Jaycee Horn dominated him head to head.

Re: Phillips: Re: Dyami:

They have a lot of thoughts on all the QBs, including one of them specifically saying he thinks Zach Wilson will have a really hard time in New York and mentions how he doesn't have the legs to bail him out while he's learning how to be a QB like our own Josh Allen did. I had originally included the QB stuff in here too but then I realized it was the length of a short novel. Happy to post more excerpts if there's certain players people are interested in. The ones they discuss that I left off are: All of the top 8 QBs Kyle Pitts All the top WRs (including Rashod Bateman who I almost included in the OP) Seth Williams Dynami Brown Nico Collins Amari Rogers Josh Palmer Micah Parsons Jaelan Phillips Kwity Paye Christian Barmore Nick Bolton Jabril Cox Jamin Davis Dylan Moses Jevon Holland Jaycee Horn Patrick Surtain Penei Sewell Rashawn Slater Sam Ehlinger Payton Turner Racey McMath

https://theathletic.com/2532416/2021/04/21/nfl-draft-confidential-zach-wilson-to-the-jets-in-that-market-with-that-play-style-woof/ One of my favorite reads of the year where Bruce Feldman interviews position coaches from NFL teams to discuss different prospects. Some excerpts on players that might be of interest to Bills fans: Re: Terrace Marshall: Re: Kadarius Toney: Re: Rondale Moore: Re: Elijah Moore: Re: Jayson Oweh: Re: Azeez Ojulari: Re: Greg Rousseau: Re: Zaven Collins: Re: Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah: Re: Najee Harris:

Which goes to show even with a bad running game and bad running backs, you can make it work well enough to win the Super Bowl.

Tampa's RBs last year were a disappointing 2nd round RB that can't catch, a disappointing 1st round RB that Jacksonville cut, and a disappointing 3rd round rookie. Buffalo's running game was also better than Tampa's last year. Edit: Not saying RB is the least important position in football, just pointing out Tampa isn't a good example as they struggled to run the ball all year.

That was his rookie season, in which I said he was good.