Who will be a surprise 1st round pick?

[WestCoastRam]

Okay, how about we add a different spin to this as the draft week starts. What is one prospect (and I think there might be a few in this draft class) who you see as a surprise 1st round pick and why?

Nothing groundbreaking here but I think - right now - Mason Taylor makes it into the 1st round. He's not a crazy ceiling guy but he's an eventual Y TE for a team for the next 8 years in a so so pass catching class. Outside that, I think there'll be an olineman who sneaks into 1st round since the cupboard is so bare at OT, Center and even a little guard this year.

 

[Londoner]

Does Jalen Milroe count?

 

[WestCoastRam]

Does Jalen Milroe count?

Yeah, I think he does. I know some people have been talking him up as a 1st rounder but I tend to think that was news cycle hype.

I think I'm landing where I'm starting back in January, two QBs picked in 1st round. Probably Ward and Shedur.

I think there's gonna be a frenzy of trades for QBs in the 2nd though.

 

[Londoner]

I think there's gonna be a frenzy of trades for QBs in the 2nd though.

There could be teams trying to trade up into the late first-round for QBs so that they get that all-important fifth-year option.

 

[OldSchool]

That ilb from.UCLA who's name I can't remember or spell.

 

[WestCoastRam]

Copied my response in the QB thread:

I know a lot is made of the getting back into the 1st for a QB so you can have the 5th year option but this class may not be good enough for the opportunity cost of the kind of capital you'd need to give up for that. Lot's of hubbub of teams wanting to maneuver in the 2nd for these QBs, seems to make more sense to me.

Additionally, if you're any good, you're signing an extension before the 5th year option is in play. Sure, teams have slightly more leverage on the extension but that's kinda it. 5th year option is a tool but it isn't an ends to a mean.

 

[WestCoastRam]

That ilb from.UCLA who's name I can't remember or spell.

That's a good one

 

[HX76]

Me

 

[OldSchool]

Me

Solidify that kitchen staff with a drink maestro

 

[den-the-coach]

That ilb from.UCLA who's name I can't remember or spell.

Carson Schwesinger?

 

[rdlkgliders]

I guess we will have to wait and see who the Raiders pick to answer this

 

[OldSchool]

Carson Schwesinger?

Sure whatever his name is. He'd be a surprise in the 1st.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

WR Kyle Williams

 

[PhillyRam]

A late reach in rd one for an OT needy team.

Aireontay Ersery

 

[Flatlyner]

Jared Wilson. One of the only proven centers in the draft. Another I could see is Jaylin Noel. Speed to burn and he'll go up and get that ball.

 

[muggmeister]

Does Jalen Milroe count?

Hopefully, as long as it's not us that takes him.

 

[muggmeister]

WR Kyle Williams

Would love to have him in the 3rd, unfortunately long gone by our pick.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

Would love to have him in the 3rd, unfortunately long gone by our pick.

Yeah. One guy said he’s high on a lot of teams lists. I like him.

 

[AZRams]

I guess we will have to wait and see who the Raiders pick to answer this

 

[Memphis Ram]

RB TreVeyon Henderson
WR Jaylin Noel or WR Jayden Higgins