Welcome back to it Brocos Country tonight. I managamin all right here with you.
Thanks for Ryan Edwards for joining me in the last segment. Talk a
little bit about a quarterback situation, you know, their view on trading up
versus trading back or waiting or whatever else. I always appreciate it when Leog
gets a chance to come back and do a little bit of the show,
and certainly appreciate his time in doing that. Five six six nine zero is
the text line. I know. I promised you guys, promised you guys
a mock draft, So we're going to do that here. In just a
moment, I wanted to I'm going to try and do this through the lens
of what I more of what I think would happen than what I want to
happen. So I am I'm looking at this as as an exercise in which
we're trying to predict things rather than here's what I would like to happen.
And I think it's important to make that distinction because some people's mock drafts are
simply them. They simply wish fulfillment or wishful thinking or things like that.
So I wanted to. I wanted to preface it with that, I think
we all know who's going first. I don't think that's a surprise for anybody.
I don't really need to sit here and debate a reason with Caleb Williams
going number one overall to the Chicago Bears. To me, it doesn't.
It just doesn't. It doesn't make sense to belabor that point. It would
be an a the biggest upset of all time if that did not occur.
Everybody I've talked to in the league is believed that was what was going to
happen for months. The Bears sort of tipped their hand when they were shopping
justin fields around the time of the Senior Bowl. I think at the end
of the day, the idea that that that is is set in stone as
you as you can be, almost like when Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
So I don't want to belabor that. So I it picked one.
Obviously, we have Caleb Williams go to the Bears at picked two. I
still have Jaden Daniels going to the Washington Commanders. I know the betting odds
have changed a little bit. I know some people have talked up the Drake
May thing. I've had Jayden Daniels there for a while and that that's that's
just kind of who I have there. I think he's a better dual threat
guy. I think he gives Cliff Kingsbury something. He's a little bit more
accustomed to. Kingsbury obviously helped, you know, Manzielle win the twenty twelve
Heisman. Kyler Murray was his handpicked guy, another Heisman winner when he you
guys started Arizona. To me, it just it just kind of rings true
here that Jayden Daniels is a little bit more more of a fit for what
Cliff has traditionally done. Now, does that mean that he won't take Drake
may or JJ McCarthy. No, I believe that this is a Jaden Daniels
or Drake may pick here. I don't think McCarthy's really in play. But
none of the three would would stun me. I would be mildly surprised if
it was anyone other than Daniels, if it was mayor McCarthy. But we'll
sort of see. Pick three is where it starts to get interesting in this
draft, because does New England take the quarterback? Does New England trade out
of three and if they do trade out of three, who do they trade
with. Recent rumor has the New York Giants potentially wanting a quarterback, And
I've talked to people up there, and I will say that if a quarterback
falls to them at six, I would be stunned if they didn't take them.
I don't think a quarterback will fall to them at six, but if
a quarterback falls to six, I would be stunned if the Giants didn't take
them. Do I believe they'll trade up. I don't. I don't believe
they'll trade up. So that leaves you with a couple other options. You've
had some people talking about the Raiders and everything I've talked to. Everybody I've
talked to over there does not believe they're trading up. The Broncos and the
Vikings would be the other two teams. The Vikings already pick one slot ahead
of the Broncos. They've also got an additional first rounder. Broncos don't even
have a second in this draft, so the Vikings certainly have more ammunition to
be able to move up. The question is whether or not New England makes
that pick or they trade it at three. I do believe that Minnesota is
okay with more than one quarterback. I believe that while they are poised to
move up, I believe that there are three of these four quarterbacks they would
be happy with. Caleb Williams is not going to be there, so scratch
that one off the list. So the question here becomes, does New England
pick at three or does Minnesota trade up. Some recent reporting has Elliott Wolf
being a big fan of JJ McCarthy. I think that New England will stay
put. I thought they would trade it. I go back and forth on
this. I say that I think they'll state, but I go back and
forth. This is truly a coin flip for me, because everybody I talked
to at the Senior Bowl was adamant believing that New England was going to trade
out, and every report at the time was, Oh, they're not moving,
They're stay and blah blah blah. I've got I've sort of started going
the other way that they might stay, and now the reporting is going the
other way they might move, and it's just sort of interesting to me.
I believe that Drake may or JJ McCarthy will be the pick here. The
question is who's going to be making the pick. So in this particular scenario,
we keep New England staying put and making this election, and we'll give
them Drake May at three. That causes the Minnesota Vikings to pull the trigger
with the Arizona Cardinals at four and come up and get JJ McCarthy, and
that puts at number five the Los Angeles Chargers on the clock. Now,
I've been told that the Chargers would like to trade back. I believe that.
I believe that in their first year they'd like to multiply draft capital.
I've been told that the Chargers like receivers and a specifically offensive lineman, and
I think they want to go offensive line early. They want somebody who's nasty,
somebody who could finish. And I would not be surprised to see them
willing to move back. And in fact, in this particular projection, I'm
going to have Arizona move back up. They moved down from four to eleven.
I'm going to have them move back up to five with the Chargers and
have the Arizona Cardinals select Marvin Harrison Junior, first non quarterback off the board.
I know they need receiving hell, I know they love Harrison. At
number six, the Giants, who may have had some internal hopes that a
quarterback would slip to them, had those dashed by Minnesota's trade up, but
are more than happy to select the wide receiver from LSU elite Neighbors at six
Neighbors may have the highest ceiling of any wide receiver in this draft, even
if Harrison is a bit more polished. That brings us to the Tennessee Titans
and what I think would be the first offensive lineman off the board in Joe
Alt. We talked a little bit about the Chargers being on offensive line,
and I liked the Chargers on offensive line. I'm not one hundred percent that
the Chargers think that Joe Alt is the top guy, but the Titans,
well, he fits the mold of a Callahan tackle, and with Brian Callahan
as the new head coach there and his dad Bill on the offensive line,
I would be very surprised if it wasn't Joe Alt. You've got a deep
receiver class. The Titans can go back and get receivers later. Pick A
is the Atlanta Falcons. Everybody I've talked to there expects that to be an
edge rusher. The question is whether or not that would be Dallas Turner or
Jared Verse, and I think that Verse has some explosiveness and power to him.
But just the people I've talked to expect Dallas Turner more to be the
pick there at this point. Again, we're three weeks out from the draft.
Things can change, but we're doing this top twelve moc here having some
fun with it. I'll give the Falcons the edge rusher at number nine.
The Chicago Bears making their second selection inside the top ten. This is their
actual own, their own pick. Obviously, with pick number one they had
Carolinas picking that deal from last year. That couldn't have worked out better for
Chicago if they tried. And I think after adding Keenan Allen DJ Moore,
I think you go ahead and make your own triplets there in Chicago and you
draft Row Madonzay. He's a great route runner, he's a good contested catch
guy. Remind you a little of Cordless Sudden. Keenan Allen's not going to
be there for a long period of time, but he's a great veteran wide
receiver, shallow cross guy to have. And now all of a sudden,
that Bears offense looks dangerous. He gets some offensive line help, which they
need little bit later, but that offense looks looks dangerous. All of a
sudden, a Bears team that has been something that people pick as an easy
win doesn't look like it's necessarily as easy to win anymore. And I'm sure
that KAYLEB Williams will have his growing pains, But having a starting three receivers
of DJ Moore, Keenan Allen Roemdoonze, you got DeAndre Swift and Khalil Herbert
as your running backs, Cole Comett and Gerald Everett is your tight ends.
All of a sudden, that offense looks legit, and that defense was looking
legit down the stretch last year. Once they added Montese Sweat, that defense
looked like it could be something that'd be interesting to see how they continue to
build off that. At pick ten with the New York Jets, I think
brock Bowers, I think everybody's pretty much got that one circled. They addressed
their offensive line and free agency, they can really kind of go best player
available, and I think brock Bowers he is probably that They added Morgan Moses,
Tyron Smith, and John Simpson along the offensive line of free agency.
They grabbed Tyrod Taylor as a backup quarterback. They added Mike Wiiams from the
Chargers to go with Garrett Wilson Xavier Gibson. I think the only area where
it's probably subpar is that tight end room where you look at Zach Koontz,
Kenny Yoba, Jeremy Ruckert, and Tyler Conklin. You had Brock Bowers in
there, and Aaron Rodgers has his pick of the litter, and that makes
that offense pretty dangerous as well. Arizona Cardinals who had traded up or traded
back excuse me, to eleven originally eleven below the Vikings. The Cardinals had
traded back, then they traded back up with the Chargers, so the Chargers
would be picking it at eleven in this scenario. And I think it comes
down to a question of which offensive lineman. Do you take the kid from
Penn State Vashanu or do you take Alabama's JC Latham. These are or is
an interesting choice to me. Now, I don't know which direction they would
go, but I'm gonna pencil Fashanu in there. Even though I like Latham
for what they want to do, I don't think they can go wrong.
Either way, and that would bring you to the Denver Broncos at twelve.
And I think if it plays out like that, I think you really have
probably two choices. Do you go with the corner, whether that's Quinnon Mitchell
or Terry in Armstead, or do you trade back, because I think you
can trade back off twelve and put yourself back at nineteen with the Rams who
need an edge rusher, and you can grab yourself some additional draft capital.
So in this particular case, I'm going to have the Broncos trade back to
nineteen with the Rams, get pick up some additional draft capital, and the
Rams grab Jared Verse, and the Broncos are sitting there looking at probably trading
down again off nineteen as they try to play the board a little bit.
You could probably at nineteen have an edge rusher like Latu Full in your lap.
You might still have a shot at the corner there and Terry and Arnold
or Quinyan Mitchell. Depending on how the board falls between thirteen and nineteen,
you might have teams trading up to get offensive linemen. If Latham or Faltanu
from Washington are there, you got the kid from Oregon State, that'll be
in that mix. Vuaga. You got edge rusher Chop Robinson still out there,
Adarius Mims the tackle out of Jargia. I think there are any number
of scenarios in which the Broncos could trade back twice in the first round,
come away with a bevy of draft picks, and still get the guy they
want. Tell me what you think five six, six, nine zero.
I'll be reading your text during the break. Broncos Country Tonight, Kawe