Less than 24 hours from the NFL recovery, the top of the table gives the impression of finally setting up. Now we are turning to potential drama.
Despite some exploratory commerce calls to the Tennessee and Cleveland Browns while we press against the draft evening, the two should now stick and choose their respective positions – with the quarter -back of Miami, the Cam N ° 1 district in the general classification of Tennessee and Colorado Wideout / Cornerback Travis Hunter Landing in Cleveland. And now, I believe that you can also add the New York giants to the “settled” list, with the Rusher of Penn State Edge Abdul Carter which stands out in this place n ° 3. We will arrive at the justification of these choices in a moment, but not before treating where the drama of the NFL recovery could accelerate Thursday: with the New England Patriots seated at n ° 4.
In the current state of things, the chances are favorable to patriots who take the LSU Campbell offensive platforms at n ° 4. It is a serious position of need for patriots, and despite Campbell without an ideal arm length and overall wingspan of historically successful left plated, the reality is that it has a solid soil with a certain flexibility of position. Essentially, if Campbell is struggling in the left tackle, the patriots always have the possibility of turning it to the right or pushing it inside to keep. Although this is not the result you really want with the fourth overall choice, it is only a reality of this draft class, and New England will have to drive with it.
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At least, that’s what it looks like. Whether or not it is how it happens on Thursday is subject to a debate and a plot. And this is because there is always the possibility that the second largest dynamic player in this project – plunged behind Hunter – should always be on the board in the fourth row: the wooden ball carrier State Ashton Jeanty. Although there was no indication that he was playing for the Patriots to take him, there was a considerable buzz in the last 24 hours that Jeanty is a favorite for the Jacksonville jaguars at n ° 5. The only question is whether another team in the top 10, perhaps the raiders of Las Vegas in the 6th or the new holy Orleans. This explains the plot in points 4 and n ° 5, creating a mystery before Thursday evening.
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If I had to call it now, I would look towards the patriots by staying at n ° 4 and doing the practical thing – which takes Campbell and being satisfied, you believe that it can become a high -level goalkeeper, otherwise a high level tackle. Although you can discuss in favor of the patriots who simply select Jeanty themselves and justifying it as a best available movement, it is simply very rich for a team created by Mike Vrabel to take a fourth ball carrier in the general classification. Especially with the pressing need to improve the offensive line and protect Drake Maye … not to mention the overall depth of the sewing class opening other options in the later towers. Campbell looks very much like a choice of Vrabel at n ° 4, but that does not prevent New England from exchanging a few places and taking it further in the top 10.
I believe that all these options will be on the table until New England is on the stopwatch. So, if you log into late, be sure to arrive before the patriots choose if you are looking for where the drama could start.
Why the 3 best choices seem safe
As for the first three choices, the titans have received calls concerning the overall choice n ° 1, but my understanding is never about to materialize. The giants made a race for this choice, and they were aggressive enough that recently that mid-March, Cam Ward thought that New York was moving to do it. But the Ward process in recent months was about as clean as possible. He did well in interviews and training sessions, while presenting the features as a franchise voice in the quarterrier. All this, combined with coaches who really want to go from the front of Will Levis, helped make Ward an easy choice.
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In terms of Browns, I think two factors locked them in Hunter. First of all, its floor and its ceiling are higher than any other player in this project. If he crashes in Wideout, he has the corner of the corner half as a help. If he crashes like a cornerback, he can rotate full time. Frankly, I did not find anyone in the league who thinks that he has a chance to crash into both positions. If anything, the opinion of the consensus is that it can be a high -caliber player in one or the other place – it’s just a question of choice. And its Everest-Ian ceiling is that he could really be a Shohei Ohtani type of Unicorn and end up becoming a great player in the NFL in attack and defense. This has never been done before full time, but there are at least a few chances that Hunter is unfathomable and continues to play on attack and defense at the next level. For the moment, I think that the director general of the Browns, Andrew Berry, sticks to the evaluation he has made publicly, is that he considers the hunter as a large possible first, but will also be open to him by playing the cornerback. It will be fascinating to see how these logistics work.
The giants were a little more interesting in terms of intrigue for longer than I would have thought. Wednesday morning, I still thought there was a chance that something funky could happen with the third overall choice and the giants. Only because Carter is not an absolutely impeccable assessment. He underwent a shoulder injury in the playoffs of university football which forced him to close his expected training sessions leading to the draft, and the doctors discovered a stress reaction in his right foot which turned out to be cured as planned during a medical revenge earlier this month. There have also been advanced feelings if he has the frame to add an additional volume to the NFL level, which could help him avoid future injuries. As an assessor said to Yahoo Sports, Carter has a type of “racing car” body which can sometimes decompose at the next level. I remember hearing the same thing about Wideout Ricky Pearsall last year, and almost immediately after arriving at the training camp last season, he was dealing with a problem with the hamstrings and shoulders. At the end of the line, players at high speed with very little fat on their bodies can be struck quite easily in the NFL. I don’t think Carter is that, but that has certainly crossed the minds of certain assessors.
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Despite all this, each signal at the moment is that the giants will take Carter at No. 3, essentially locking the same three first choices and the players that we have been waiting for for these places for a long time. Yes, the giants will stack another on -board player on a depth board which already has two in Brian Burns and Kayvon Thibodeaux. But this could be corrected via a business of Thibodeaux, which will have its fifth year. Even if it does not happen, there are ways to find a caster in the field alongside Burns and Thibodeaux. At the end of the day, it is a champagne problem that does not require discussing place n ° 3 in a project where the talent platform has a nasty drop in the other areas of need in New York. Carter is the best player in the table at n ° 3 and he plays a premium position. That’s really all we need to know.
How the rest of this will get rid of the assumption of anyone. With talent assessments and value assessments everywhere in the table in the 70 to 80 main players, this could be realistic one of the most difficult sketches of recent memory to predict precisely. This should feed interesting races on players in unexpected places and pour rocket fuel into the businesses because the teams cannot really be safe that will reach them at times.
For a league that likes to get used to it as the best existing reality TV show, this project was made for this.
