Safety Would Be A Wasted Pick

[SunsetBengal]

(04-24-2025, 06:37 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: You bring up good points but, like I type above, I just don't think that they'd improve the defense more than Nolen, one of the guards, or even Harmon.

After the team re-signed BJ Hill, added a big fella in Slaton, and spent two quality draft picks on good DT prospects last year, I'm honestly not expecting them to go interior DL early tonight. I don't see any of the Guards that will likely be available at #17 to be worthy of that high of a pick. Unless they deal Trey tonight, I don't see them going Edge in the 1st round. They signed Ossai because they believe in him, and they just spent a 1st round pick on Murphy (still waiting for launch) two years ago, so I think they might be leery of going DE in the 1st.

Nick Emmanwori is a guy that could make the biggest impact as a rookie. Yeah, I know that they drafted Dax Hill in the first to "replace" Jesse Bates III, but they have moved Dax around so much that he hasn't been able to build up any consistency, anywhere. You can put Emmanwori down low to cover TEs and Slot, or put him in back to handle deep stuff, he does it all. Lowest missed Tackle rate of any noteworthy Safety (7.8%) and highest RAS of anyone this year (10.0). Might even be able to trade back a few slots and pick him up, but if they are firm on picking at 17? I don't see him as a reach.