Top 3 'Must Have' Players in the Draft

After this I'll stop spamming the forums, I'm just excited! I don't like hiding from my opinions so i want to openly record my opinions so I can look back on them mid year, end of year, end of 2 seasons and see if I still feel the same way and see who I was wrong about. I'd be interested to see anyone elses as well! Favorite : Shaquem Griffin is too easy, he's everyone's favorite pick so I'm gonna instead go with Tre Flowers . Been watching some games of his and I'm sold on his massive potential. I love his freakishly long arms. I love his reading of plays. I see him knocked for his tackling a lot. What I see isn't specifically bad tackling, but rather inconsistent tackling. I believe Seattle is the best place to fix that! Hope he fights his way into a starting spot. Least Favorite : Rasheem Green . I don't see that thing that he does really well. He's a pretty well rounded guy, seems about as decent at everything, but what I fall in love with is when a guy does something incredibly well. Sounds like there's some technical inconsistencies (not complete faults) that's holding him back in most areas so there's a lot of potential for that well rounded decent at everything to become well rounded very good at everything and maybe above, but for now he's the pick that gets me the least excited. Also doesn't inspire confidence that Dalton Schultz (Although he is a monster), a Tight End, punked Green so hard he earned a personal "Weakness" bullet under Green's NFL draft profile. The one that got away : Tim Settle . This guy was on the board far later than I feel he should have been. Seattle probably didn't have him on their board as they passed on him with 2 picks that realistically could have gone Settles way, but I think he should have been. Washington scooped him up 6ish picks before we would have had another shot at him. Settle fights in bursts but I love it. Sometimes he'll trash the lineman on the opening assault. If he doesn't he gets tied up on those blocks... BUT the X factor I fell in love with... If the ball carrier wanders into his range (Bigger than you might think) while he's tied up, he instantly bursts and sheds the block and wraps him. Nearly every single time. Will Tre Flowers suck? Will Green be great? Will Settle be ultimately irrelevant? It's exciting to see!

In my opinion rule #1 should be "Get your guys." They're your guys for a reason, everything else comes second. 1/27 - Rashaad Penny RB - It felt too early at the time, and I would have liked to have traded back for another day 2 pick potentially. At the end of the day his ceiling is high and he was clearly our guy. Additionally a couple others wanted him as well (I heard Pats at 31, Browns at 33) so he might not have been there had we traded back, losing us 'Our Guy' attempting to maximize value. Rule #1 . 3/79 - Rasheem Green DE - Oh man.. Day 2 was as bad as watching the second 2017 Rams game. Just staring at all this insane value and these projected first rounders drop to mid to even late second... Anyway, Rasheem wasn't my favorite on the board but he definitely has a high ceiling. Green can play DT and DE and he's a powerful rusher. All of his flaws are technique based. I don't expect more than average to above average production from his snaps in year one, but 2019 and 2020 his technique should grow and he should become a monster. 4/120 - Will Dissly TE - We had to grab Dissly or Schultz. Schultz has amazing technique and consistency blocking, and drops literally nothing in the short passing game. Won't make giant explosive plays, but does his job near perfectly. Dissly is a behemoth of a man (Nearly as big as Rasheem Green). Totally unfair in the run blocking game. He has a lot less reliability than Dalton Schultz but he can make gigantic plays in the passing game, and completely humiliate defenders in protection. Given we have TE Ed Dickson and Nick Vannett, I like going with Dissly's high ceiling over Schultz' high floor. Maybe the pick was a little too early, but see rule #1 . 5/141 - Shaquem Griffin LB - Nothing but drive, determination, and energy. Speed rushing the edge makes him a beast blitzer. Makes huge plays on the ball. Punishes mistakes. Becomes greater the more is on the line. I love this for more than it's 'feel good' story; this is a legit amazing pick. Likely won't see him much (except special teams) early on in the year. As he shows his ceiling on the snaps he gets, his volume will increase. 5/146 - Tre Flowers S - Already listed as a CB everywhere, he's a clear candidate for conversion from safety. 4.45 40, 33 7/8" arms, 6 foot 3, 202 lbs. Wonderful measurements to produce a high ceiling. I haven't seen any tape on him, but it sounds like he sucks at tackling and is questionable in run support. This is fine if he's a CB and tackling is the deficiency I trust the Hox to fix the most. Lots of analysts had him pegged as a great late round sleeper. I'm excited! 5/149 - Michael Dickson P - Another one that felt too early at the time, and some players like Okoronkwo and Time Settle were still on the board. The pick did start a run on Punter so maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, see rule #1 about that. As far as Dickson himself, he's an absolute monster punter. Punting is an underrated aspect of the game as a lot of these low scoring games are field position battles. It makes a giant statement to be able to say "We're going to win 95% of positional battles for the next 7 years by default." Low scoring games are won by punters and kickers. Defenses have more room for error with the longer fields. I think this is a great player to add to the roster for the next long while, and probably the correct decision. 5/168 - Jamarco Jones OT - I don't know much about Jamarco. Talk suggests that he's a sleeper and a wonderful pick. Critiques of him show he has a lot of little technical issues. Awful combine dropped him below even his projected round 3-4 NFL grade. Should be a nice project for Solari. Seems like there's not a lot of massive issues technique wise, just a lot of here and there. Others on the board I wanted, but rule #1 . 6/186 - Jacob Martin DE - I don't know much of anything about Martin. Reading his interviews, he has a chip on his shoulder. He's ready to come in and embarrass players to show everyone who he really is. I like the attitude. We would go on to pick up Poona Ford right after the draft so I'm cool with grabbing a guy with something to prove. 7/220 - Alex McGough QB - John Schneider mentioned he thinks Baker Mayfield was the only player in the draft better at making something happen off script. That's neat. I dunno how worried we really are that we'll wake up to find Russ isn't the answer, but it's nice to keep him honest. Depending on the size of Schotty's role in developing QBs, we could end up grooming up a nice high ceiling backup/trade bait. TL/DR: We prioritized high ceilings over high floors. This is my favorite way to draft. It's how you pick 9 guys and end up with 5 pro bowlers that make everyone say "..Who the heck is that??" I'm confident we always got our guys.

Instead of a fantasy scenario... What's a nightmare scenario for you and why? Mine: 1. Don't trade back from 18. - With or without an ET3 trade I just don't see how value isn't maximized by going all in on day 2 (although one late day 1 might not be horrible, depending on how trades go down). I feel like we'll be missing on some huge potential. 2. We draft a WR and/or DE early. I hate those positions in this class. - The DEs for me largely look the same between rds 3 and 4, and I see a lot more non DE Seahawk appropriate players in Rd 2 and upper 3. - The WR is so all over the place from rds 1 to 4 that you can go to like 16 different rankings and find Ridley rated as 1 here, but 7 there; Sutton 1 here, but 15 there; Anthony Miller 1 here, 15 there. - I also feel like there's not a desperate need to inject comp at WR that justifies taking guys early when they largely seem to have similar potential between rds 1-4 (In my opinion).