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Great pick, as much as I didn't want a TE in the 2nd, based on recent SB teams, an elite TE is critical. With Graham, Kmet, Harris, and Holtz, we have a formidable TE group can run a ton of 12 personnel. Monty should be excited too.

Yeah, I was going with BPA as much as possible where it fit. Hurts was too good to pass up at 50. I think Chinn at 68 would be great, especially if we also added Hunt and Niang.

hahaha, classic, at least he would be cheaper

NE now has pick 37, 71, 87, 98, and 100, and 13 picks overall. That is an insane amount to sign and have on your 53 man and PS. I think they will be active moving up in the draft. 43 for 71, 98, and 100 would work. Then the Bears would have 50, 71, 98, and 100. I would then flip 98 or 100 and pickup a 4th or 5th. We can't go 2 picks in the first 162. 4 in the top 100 would be sweet.

I did a few trades and ended the draft at the 6th.

The PFF Simulator now starts at the 2nd round. Pretty cool. I ran it and tried to pick BPA, a lot of great options. What I don't understand is why PFF would give a different grade at the same pick for the same player just based on who is available. Like somehow Winfield was a better pick the 2nd time:

Olin Kruetz was talking about the team needing some "dawgs". From what I read, Robert Hunt is that type of player on the O-Line. With the way the board is playing out, we could grab someone like Niang, Hunt, Cushenberry, or Jones for the O-Line and a true SS. We could also still go WR as well. A lot of options for us at both picks.

I can see Pace trading up if he is enamored with one of the Safeties. I hope he doesn't unless the pick is trivial.

Thru 13 picks, top 30 remaining: Kinlaw, DT Lamb, WR Jeudy, WR Jefferson, WR Queen, LB Swift, RB Murray, LB Blacklock, DT McKinney, S Love, QB Aiyuk, WR Chaisson, Edge Epenesa, Edge Higgins, WR Jackson, OT Johnson, CB Gross-Matos, Edge Terrell, CB Edwards-Helaire, RB Davidson, Edge Baun, LB Taylor, RB Shenault, WR Dobbins, RB Ruiz, C Jones, OT Delpit, S Kmet, TE Gladney, CB Fulton, CB

They got one from us and swapped a 1st for a 2nd, that's a huge difference. They swapped Mack for Ngakoue and moved from the 43 to 19 (405 pts = mid 2nd round pick value). So it's more like Mack for Ngakoue and a 2nd.

Just starting this to track discussions as the draft unfolds this evening.

Good point, both OT's should be on there, however, with the potentially impacted offseason, can a rookie OT come in and do as good (or bad) of a job as Leno or Massie with a new QB and definitely a new RG? We will see. It is definitely going to be an interesting Friday night.

and Burton signs with the Colts. Amazing how he magically got healed in a few days to pass a physical:

I just don't see TE that early. I think they go WR/OL with one big and grab a DB whether CB or SS with the other.

For the 2nd round picks, if you could upgrade two positions to improve the roster from the current player, where would that be? CB2 - Toliver SS - Bush RG - Ifedi TE - Graham WR3 - Wims I believe these are the consensus 5 positions that keep getting mentioned. I have seen Edge, but that doesn't make sense with Quinn on the roster. TE doesn't make sense with Graham and Ifedi has more starting experience then the rest of the other guys combined, so I think RG is out. So it comes down to BPA at CB, SS, and WR3. One wild card is OT. If you can get an upgrade over Leno or Massie, you do it.

Would NE be interested in Trubisky? They have 13 draft picks (and no 2nd rounders): 1st-23 3rd-87 3rd-98 3rd-100 4th-125 4th- (from Tampa) 5th-172 6th-195 6th-204 6th-212 6th-213 7th-230 or 241

From April 8th, right before the OJ Howard stuff started:

I hope so too, but they seem extra motivated to make a SB push like Denver did with Manning.

I agree, if I am Pace, I am already on the phone with TB. It seems that they wouldn't even want another pick this year (they already had two 4ths), how about a pick in 2021, which would be more useful to them.

Seems fishy to me, like it was preplanned for a long time. See my edits in the first post. I think it was their plan all along. TB has enough to absorb Gronk's 10M but NE didn't.

Madness, to me this was all setup. Gronk retires, Brady doesn't return to NE. He has the pick of the league, picks TB, then after NE signs enough players that prevents them from taking on Gronk's contract, he magically unretires which forces NE's hand to make a trade immediately (they cannot go over the cap). To me, this seems way too convenient. Also, TB magically had enough to take on his contract.

Yeah, that guide is impressive. He put a ton of time and effort into that thing. I am surprised he didn't sell it on Amazon as a real draft guide. With The Athletic being free right now, everyone can get that guide which I highly recommend. Also, the password is case sensitive, so it's actually: Bea$t20! I've attached the guide to this post, no need for password: 2020_NFL_DRAFT.pdf

That's exactly what I am saying. If you get a trade offer to move down at 43, you have to take it because it might not be there later.

Top 300 players, ranked by consensus: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSTYaxInC66nU_dSdw8HEMMI-n4Mh4WcaZDxVkEHw_8Mv2326DRo68HcVYuZL3zS7fv2PtZtCKE_7Fd/pubhtml Pretty sweet and updated regularly. It will come in handy on draft day. Interesting guys at 43 and 50: Laviska Shenault and Lloyd Cushenberry.

Without knowing if you would even have a trade partner at 50, you almost have to take it to give you 4 picks in the top 100.