Pearce higher be price it when you’re giving up a future first-round decide.
Cowboys choose OG Tyler Booker
Booker fills a large want on the Cowboys’ offensive line, however it’s a query of worth. If you’re taking a guard with the No. 12 decide within the draft, you higher be getting a Larry Allen, Alan Faneca or Steve Hutchinson clone in that spot. It higher be someone that may rework the place and have a Corridor of Fame profession forward of him.
Is Booker that type of participant? Time will inform, however for proper now it appears a bit of excessive simply based mostly on positional worth.
Seahawks choose OG Gray Zabel
The whole lot that was simply mentioned about Booker additionally applies right here to Zabel going to Seattle. Virtually word-for-word.
Sure, the Seahawks desperately wanted to improve their line, and particularly on the inside, however guards within the high half of the draft simply appear to be questionable worth given a few of the influence positions which might be nonetheless out there. Good guards may be discovered later.
Raiders take RB Ashton Jeanty
That is merely a query of whether or not or not that is the correct spot for Jeanty. He deserves to be a excessive decide and he ought to be a excessive decide. He’s the most effective operating again on this class and in the correct state of affairs might be a right away influence participant.
However do the Raiders have sufficient on offense round him to permit him to excel, and have been there different positions they might have checked out on this spot to make the staff higher?
The Raiders appeared to have taken the mistaken classes from the influence gamers like Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry had on their groups through the 2024 season.
These groups didn’t excel as a result of they discovered the correct operating backs, these backs excelled as a result of they have been put onto the correct groups. The operating backs weren’t one of many beginning factors of the offense, they have been the ultimate piece of the puzzle.
The Raiders predict Jeanty to be one of many first key constructing blocks and one of many first beginning factors. That doesn’t at all times work out nicely.
