Pearce higher be value it if you find yourself giving up a future first-round choose.
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 choose within the draft, you higher be getting a Larry Allen, Alan Faneca or Steve Hutchinson clone in that spot. It higher be any individual 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
Every thing that was simply stated about Booker additionally applies right here to Zabel going to Seattle. Nearly word-for-word.
Sure, the Seahawks desperately wanted to improve their line, and particularly on the inside, however guards within the prime half of the draft simply seem to be questionable worth given a few of the influence positions which might be nonetheless accessible. Good guards might be discovered later.
Raiders take RB Ashton Jeanty
That is merely a query of whether or not or not that is the proper spot for Jeanty. He deserves to be a excessive choose and he needs to be a excessive choose. He’s the most effective working again on this class and in the proper scenario might be a direct influence participant.
However do the Raiders have sufficient on offense round him to permit him to excel, and had been there different positions they may have checked out on this spot to make the group higher?
The Raiders appeared to have taken the incorrect classes from the influence gamers like Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry had on their groups in the course of the 2024 season.
These groups didn’t excel as a result of they discovered the proper working backs, these backs excelled as a result of they had been put onto the proper groups. The working backs weren’t one of many beginning factors of the offense, they had 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 properly.
