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Isaiah Bond - 4.39 -- ranked 6th, 2024 production 33-532-5, 5'11 180 Tai Felton - 4.37 -- ranked 18th, 2024 production 96-1124-9, 6'1 183 Kyle Williams - 4.40 -- ranked 21st, 2024 production 70-1198-14, 5'11 190 Arian Smith - 4.36 -- ranked 22nd, 2024 production 48-817-4, 6' 179 Rankings from WalterFootball.com

I made two trades down and then one trade up. I went from 30 to 32 then to 34, picking picks 96 & 99. I used lower picks to try to balance the trades and limit the number of picks I made to 7. I then traded 56 and 99 to move up to 41. Pick 34 - Derrick Harmon DT Pick 41 - Maxwell Hairston CB Pick 62 - JT Tuimoloau Edge Pick 96 - Isaiah Bond WR Pick 161 - Cobee Bryant CB Pick 169 - Sebastian Castro S Pick 177 - Jamon Dumas-Johnson LB Added talent on all levels of the defense including a CB with great speed who could push to start. Bond fell to 96 (which is unlikely to happen in a real draft but...) and had to be chosen.

I’ve updated the roster portion to reflect the suspensions.

I like Beane, but wouldn’t he have had to know this was coming before signing these guys? This is a huge failure on his part. Now we know why Jones and AJE are still on the team, but this is a pretty big black eye for the organization.

I mostly agree with this post, except it’s not unreasonable to believe a full year of a healthy Bishop should upgrade the safety position. I also think Forrest is a decent depth upgrade.

After he posted that I thought about revising the OP from "White" to "Immobile Statute."

Yes there is a major hole heading into the draft. It's called a starting CB. Let me repeat, Dane Jackson is not a starting CB.

Right now we have one, Benford. Dan Jackson is nothing about a good depth piece and an occasional injury starter. Beane must bring in a better player. If we go into the season with Benford, Ingram, Jackson and a rookie draft pick as our 4 outside CBs, Beane has downgraded the position from last season and that's not a good thing.

Dane Jackson is back. Yawn. Beane please get us a real starter at CB.

Jackson is not an upgrade on Douglas. He played for Carolina last season who had a terrible secondary allowing the most passing yards and passing TDs in the NFL last season. The guy wasn’t even good enough to earn the starters job there. Ultimately he started 3 games in the 9 he played.

Dane is a wonderful depth player, but he isn’t a good enough starter on a team with Super Bowl aspirations. Douglas got picked on consistently last season and I don’t see Jackson as an upgrade on Douglas. This team still needs a real starter at CB. Asking a rookie draft pick to fill that role would compound the mistake. I am a Beane fan overall, but if the plan is to give Dane a chance to start, Beane has made a mistake.

If he is going to compete for a starters job, Beane has screwed up.

And disappointing.

Mr. Beane, still waiting on the starting CB we need.

More of an if. His pressure rate is worse than interior lineman. It got so bad last year, McD started removing him from the field on passing downs. I'm honestly surprised given the potential cap savings of about $3 mill that he is still on the team.

We save more cap moving on from AJE.

Jefferson and Phillips were late season roster filler. So far we have replaced 3 rotational players, Smoot, Miller and Johnson, with Hoecht, Bosa, and Ogunjobi and we are the better for it. I think Hoecht is a sneaky good signing. The more I read on him, the better I like the player. He has a 11% pressure rate compared to AFE's 7. He also is able to drop in coverage, and is a better tackler than AJE as well. He can also move inside in a pinch.

So basically two players in 9 years.

We are still short a starting CB.

I won’t be adding him to the roster thread.

Isn't that Lewis' job?

@Logic 1. Beane is going to sign a FA CB, maybe 2. He isn't going into the season with Benford, a rookie draft pick, and Ingram as his top 3 non-slot CBs. That's just not happening. He is also probably limited right now by cap space. Knowing Beane he is also waiting until the FA's begin to get a little more desperate for a job. Aside from Samuel, who allegedly has a stinger issue, most of the available FA CBs are guys like Douglas, Slay, Gilmore, and Hilton. Beane can afford to wait. I don't want Douglas back. He is frankly too slow. I am curious what happened to former 3rd overall pick Jeff Okudah. 2. CB maybe our "top" priority, but DT and Edge are just as likely with our first pick. A rookie CB is unlikely to start. In fact, what rookie on defense has McD ever installed in the lineup as a starter? I can't think of any.

Candlesticks always make a nice gift.

No speed. The Douglas Benford pairing wasn’t up to the task last season. This news explains why Samuel didn’t get the rumored Jets contract.