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Lambert might be one of their tools for rumors. The fact its never Banks might be the tip off.

I enjoyed this video and the discussion from two different perspectives on DT prospects. Good discussion on how arm length helps you in the trenches.

I had a lot of issues with how Caleb played last year holding the ball too long and missing or bypassing the easy gains. However, this video gives me hope he's The One. Rookies can at times look good between the 20s but to execute in the redzone is really where the elite QBs shine. This video gave me hope for a bright future..

AI LLM is just reading whatever data is input to it and formatting the answer the way the programmer told it to. Mason Graham listed as top 10 not top 5 is odd. Regardless I’m from the 1980s era of programming where the motto was garbage in garbage out. AI hasn’t changed that. Doesn’t mean that it’s garbage it just means we have no clue what the inputs were and how it was asked to provide outputs. The nice thing about Mel Kiper is that his mouth is usually open telling you that stuff.

Interesting there’s so few reported. There’s really only a little over a week left. Last week before the draft is finalizing the board and gaming various mocks.

I think you’re misreading that. All I said is I’d prefer Hampton over Warren. Given the full spectrum of options I’d take neither at 10.

Seems pretty much like every year. Who had Penix going at 7 to AtL last year? This is why Round 1 has become must see TV for diehard fans.

Most teams are in nickel 60% of the time. I doubt we'll be different. Kyler Gordon is your blitz specialist and he's pretty good at it. Dennis Allen seems to agree based on his comments this offseason.

More to do with where he lives. Kenneth Grant for example lives within 50mi of Chicago so if we meet with him he won't count against our 30.

I'd be far happier drafting RB Hampton at 10 vs. Warren. We need a good running game to get this offense out of the blocks especially early in the season.

Is he local within 50mi of Chicago? If so this visit doesn't count against the 30 limit. They can use these visits to help figure out how they'll fill out the 90 man roster for the opening of camp.

I agree with you but media analyst wannabes put too much emphasis on it. Poles clearly has his target metrics for each position. He stated he reviewed that with the new coaching staff to make sure he was targeting players that fit the system and the way they want to use them. Very specifically if you will use less Cover 2 then having a 6'4" fast "high RAS" MLB who can cover the deep middle is less of a need.

RAS is a very simple metric. I’m pretty sure every fan base and coaching staff want big, fast, and strong players. Just use it to see if it matches what you see on film. last night I watched Steve Smith breakdown Matthew Golden, his #1 WR in this draft. He ran a 4.29 forty. Yet they showed several clips where he gets run down from behind. He’s not slow either but if it’s a foot race to the endzone I’m taking Velus over him.

I have trouble believing Warren is a blue chip player. Seems more like top 20-25 type. He has no special traits likeBowers last year but he’s a really good player. I’m not sure Jeanty is blue chip either but he's closer to it than Warren. I won’t be surprised at all if Hampton is the first RB taken in this draft.

Agreed. That's just shockingly low ball not even an average salary and it's not like he took less money to go to a winning team in order to polish his resume.

Nice car.

For years Ryan Poles has said arm length is a factor when drafting an OT. There can be arguments about how others feel regarding arm length but the 3 OTs he's drafted as our GM fit his long-arm profile. I can't imagine he'll suddenly change for Will Campbell and I don't think he's spending a top 10 pick on Campbell to backup the IOL.

That's pretty much where I'm at. We have more needs, as do most teams, but we have to get 4 good players out of this opportunity. Although I want to come out of this draft feeling good about the depth in the trenches, however they choose to do it.

I think Walker's pass rush skills are way overrated, he's more of a blitzer than edge defender. If we draft him at 10 I'll be incredibly disappointed and I think it will signal we've returned to the Phil Emery era style of drafting. There are so many good players in this draft at higher impact positions he can draft before grabbing an off-ball LB. Walker is not as fast or agile as past years smaller elite athletes like Nolan Smith who has had just 7.5 sacks in 2 seasons in Philly. That's with a lot of good talent around him. We're not even close to that kind of Dline talent. Fix the trenches.

That's a very good list although I have not scouted all of those players. I would add the other Iowa State WR. Higgins combined with DJ and Rome would be a coverage nightmare for any team. All 3 can line up at any position. If Steve Smith is right and he goes late 1st he's not even an option but he could be there early 2nd. Even then, I think there are higher needs we should address beforehand like RB, DT, DE.

I don't particularly like Keenum so for him to compete with Bagent for #2 is fine by me. We need people to throw the ball in camp this is a much better option than any UDFA.

They gave you a C+ on Tyler Booker?

Months of work doesn't mean months of work on 1 player. These are media talking heads once they get their notes put together their job is to go out and make money talking about it. That's why they are usually late to the party on adjusting draft boards and even then a lot of that is in response to rumors, as opposed to their own re-evaluation. Even though we all disagree to some extent I find all of our combined research here on this board to be more accurate on trends that will happen in April vs the media. That is players moving up/down on draft day versus where they were slated pre-combine. One of the reasons for that is because of the debate where we force ourselves to dig deeper (as seen above) to validate one side or the other. As far as Banks goes I agree he's the best of the LT options especially if we want that in Week 1 because of Braxton's injury. All of this depends on the mystery of what our staff think about Braxton and Kiran. I listened and watched the mannerisms of Poles and Johnson as they answered questions on them this past week. My suspicion is they are content to go forward with those 2. Most telling was Poles as he talked about how he'd have a logjam of 3 players at one position for camp and he didn't seem to like that idea. Then I reminded myself it's lying season.

They'd put up a statue of you in the new stadium if you pull that off.

I’m good with that plan. But I also suspect whatever they are doing with Thuney will be kept quiet before the draft to keep everyone guessing.