War Room Mock Draft 1.0 with Brett Kollmann

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0:34Welcome to the very first war room podcast of the 2026 draft season. I am I am joined to do this episode by Brett Coleman. You've been on the pod before you have not done a war room. So this is very exciting. Brett has his own YouTube channel, the bootleg football show. Check it out. Brett, are you ready to draft with me? Yeah, this is like a choose your own adventure kind of mock draft. It's a new format for me. I'm excited. I love doing it this way because I feel like I call it warming because I almost feel like we're trying to recreate what it's like inside an NFL war room as they're debating picks.

1:12So the way we do it every year is I give two picks to Brett for every team. So all 32 teams. Well, we are picking the first round are represented here. I am going to do trades, but I'm not going to do them in this first episode. I want to keep it clean before things get really complicated with my trades. We'll be doing this weekly, by the way, between now and the draft. Next week will be with Daniel Jeremiah. So stay tuned because we're going to, I'm going to introduce, you know, new picks for every team. You're going to have lots of options discussed today. However, we are starting with the Las Vegas Raiders, of course, at pick one.

1:48I think I will probably do trades as options in the future, but I'm not going to do that here. I'm going to give you the question that is apparently on the minds of everybody right now, which is who is QB one in the 2026 draft. Didn't think it was going to be a question if you had asked me a month ago, but it's a hot topic at the moment. So Brett with the first pick of the 2026 NFL draft, you are picking on behalf of the Las Vegas Raiders and choosing between Indiana quarterback, Fernando Mendoza and Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson who are you gonna take so I'm gonna take Fernando Mendoza and I I do want to say I mean Dan's gotten shellacked over the last week for this take I respect that he had the guts to say what he believes and what he feels and I also understand why he had Simpson as his QB1 if you're looking at the tape particularly in the first nine weeks he made a lot of NFL type throws right it's under center play action turning her back to the defense which a lot of college quarterbacks including fernando mendoza never ever did you know he's ripping backside digs like there's a lot of nfl stuff there my concern is when i was down at the combine and i was standing next to ty simpson and fernando mendoza and i'm looking at them side by side i can't help but think when when this person takes a hit from khalil mac when they take a hit from even some of the edges in this class ruben bain will they spontaneously turn to dust i i would say no for finana mendoza like he's got body armor he could take those hits we saw that in the playoffs ty simpson he's only got 15 starts i'm not sure he can handle the rigors of a full nfl slate which is already longer like one season is going to be more starts than he ever had in college football plus playoffs you could you know maybe maybe play 21 games in a season i don't know if he can hold up against that he's just not a big guy so from a tape perspective i understand why dan had that opinion tape is good realistically will he survive that's what i'm more thinking about and i i more trust fernando to survive long enough to develop the size discrepancy is real it is meaningful there's lots of historical nfl data um actually later this week nate tice and danny and i are going to talk about the quarterbacks and we're going to get into this uh in depth because i do think it is a very important point when talking about them.

4:15Uh, and I think you made the pick that the Raiders are going to make with number one of Mendoza. Okay. Number two is where things get really interesting for me, uh, because we've got the New York jets on the clock. I'm not going to put it back here. Um, edge is where everybody thinks they're going to go, but which pass rusher is wildly open, maybe more open than I've seen, uh, in, in quite some time. I am going to give you a choice between two edge rushers. One is a very obvious no brainer blind him up at wide nine David Bailey, Texas. The other is I think seen as the higher variance play and that is Arvel Reese who the Ohio State was a versatile player, sometimes off the ball sometimes on the ball if you're the new york jets who would you take bailey or reese so this one's tough because honestly if i had a choice between either of those two and probably the third edge you would be thinking of which is reuben bain i probably would have gone with bain but if we're just strictly going between bailey and reese i'll probably go reese there because i feel like the way that this jets defense would use him would be very similar to how Ohio State used him, which is very similar to how the Patriots once used Dante Hightower.

5:37I see Reese as not a pure edge. I also see him as not a pure off-ball linebacker. I see him as a movable chess piece that can get them into different fronts. And if you're looking at how the Patriots used Hightower back in the day and how Ohio State under Matt Patricia used Reese, it was, okay, we're going to use him as an edge when we want to get into our five-man surface looks with all five guys in the line of scrimmage. we will plug him in over guards we will use him off ball if we want to be in a four-man service and how the Patriots use Hightower was they would get into the same kind of front but five different ways in the same game so it would look like five different fronts it was really confusing for offenses but really it's the same thing it's just okay we're taking our linebacker we're putting him at edge we're taking our edge we're putting him at three technically it was it was kind of a mix and match style approach and I think Reese is perfect for that style I don't think he's a full time edge i don't think he's micah parsons i also don't think he's like anthony barr where we're full-time converting him to off-ball linebacker i think he's both and i think the jets are one of the few teams that would use him that way compared to bailey which is a full-time edge and i i don't necessarily think they're going to get their bang for their buck compared to what they would use reese for reese is all about usage to me all about the plan and as you mentioned you know maybe the Jets do have one.

6:54Okay. Three is I'm going to, so you mentioned you like Bain. So I'm, so we're talking about the Arizona Cardinals. I'm going to put Bain here as an option for them. Uh, and I'm going to put them up against not another, not Bailey. I'm going to put them up against Francis Mauna, the tackle out of Miami. I think this is a legit question. The Cardinals will be wrestling with at this point in the draft offensive tackle versus defensive linemen, two very good players, teammates. In this Miami versus Miami matchup, who are you taking? I'm like picking between my favorite kids here. This is tough. So I'm going to go with Francis Malinoa.

7:34Not begrudgingly, but like I, it's, it's really, really hard for me. Bain would be the only player that I would consider not taking Malinoa for. The reason why I'm still ultimately going Malinoa is because my number one long-term objective for the Cardinals is building a destination that fits a quarterback for 2027 and beyond. We're pretty sure that they're going to be active and looking for quarterbacks in 2027. I'm not 100 % sure. Actually, I'm very confident the answers, long term answers currently not on the roster. Maybe if they brought in Malik Willis, I would have adjusted my stance here.

8:11But I really do think that they have to get a right tackle. If you're looking at all of the right tackles combined on this roster, they were like collectively one of the five worst right tackle situations in the entire NFL last year. And I want to create a destination where I can slide in a rookie in 2027. I've got good receivers. I'll have a good offensive line. Ideally, Trey Benson becomes what we think he can be out of the backfield. You know, obviously you got Trey at tight end, like that's a very, very attractive destination, but it won't be attractive if the future quarterback is destroyed.

8:42So give me right tackle. I think it's a very safe pick. I think he'll play there for a long time. All right. The Titans at four are thrilled because they have a desperate need at pass rush and they have their choice now of two of the three best pass rushers in the draft. I am not giving you Jeremiah Love as an option because I disagree with that wholeheartedly here. I am giving you Bain versus Bailey for the Tennessee Titans. yeah give me reuben bain here and it's nothing against david bailey it's just if you're looking at the profile for what works in the nfl it's power like it is power power power the average if you're looking at 10 years of data the average physical profile for top 10 edge rushers in terms of pressures every single year for the last decade it's guys that are 6 '3 mid 260s power rushers we're talking like 60th percentile verts and agilities like it's if you can go in a straight line and you can collapse the pocket like a jared verse if you're explosive enough if you're agile enough even without like elite explosiveness and agility as long as you can collapse the pocket you're going to be productive that's what reuben bain does and all by the way he also has been too so i'm not really worried about the arm length because if arm length was an issue he probably would have shown that to be an issue sometime in college like guys that had longer arms than him that weighed more than him were still helpless against him.

10:02He has unreal power. He's got great bend. He produces. I don't really know why we're overthinking this one. He's going to be a really, really good NFL edge. So Bailey is our faller at the moment. We're still four or five. It's not that much of a fall. However, the Giants are a team that might be the only team in the whole goddamn draft that doesn't need a pass rusher. So we're not going to put him on the board for you. I'm going to give you what I think is an interesting choice. Again, I'm not putting love here. This is, we should remind, I should have said this at the beginning. This is the, what would Brett do?

10:36Not what we think. I know people have listened to this long time. No, this, this is, we're not trying to predict the draft. We are trying to make the decisions we think are this farthest. And I'm doing that as well. Right. With some of these choices, I am giving the choice that I, if I'm a team I'm debating between, and I'm going to put up another couple of teammates against each other for the New York giants, but I'm not going to put teammates on the same side of the ball on one, one option. You have sunny styles, the linebacker out of Ohio state. Amazing prospect crushed the combine area of need for them could be used a number of ways on the other side though.

11:10I am not going to go with downs. I'm going to put carnell Tate here because I do think the giants should consider a receiver. Uh, they do need help there. And also So they've got a young quarterback who's entering year two. So Styles versus his teammate, Carnell Tate. If you're the New York Giants, who are you taking? I'm going to go with Tate. And that is because my main goal as a Giants GM here, a fake Giants GM, I need to make Jackson Dart work, right? Like I really, really need this to work. And right now, you know, we're going to have Malik Nabors coming off injury. But if Malik gets dinged again, we're staring down the barrel of Darius Slayton And then Darnell Mooney is our top two receivers.

11:52I cannot abide by that. So I'm going to go with Tate, even though I have an overall higher grade on Sonny Styles, my organizational objective is to develop this quarterback and get him to a place where we can afford to take something other than receiver in the top five, if we happen to pick that high in the future. So I think, you know, Dart's best chance to become the guy is just having unlimited weapons. And I think this fits that goal. the Cleveland Browns are devastated. I think they might be the team. I keep saying like the tape to the Browns seems like the most, one of the most likely picks because they do desperately need receivers.

12:34I would say their single biggest need, and you just took wide receiver one off the board and pick six feels rich for the next receiver. So I'm sure they would love to trade down, but we are not doing trades down. and I'm not going to give you a receiver here as a choice for them. I'm going to make you pick between two offensive linemen, which is another glaring area, right? And I think the Browns, similar to Dart, similar to the Cardinals, well, more similar, I would say, to the Cardinals. A lot of your reasoning there about the Cardinals, you got to set it up for the next quarterback, applies to the Browns as well.

13:10So the two linemen I'm going to have you choose between are two different positions. this it's a bit early but I'm going to give you the choice of the Penn State guard Venga Yawane or Spencer Fano the tackle out of Utah would you go Fano or and I you know let's start by saying the Browns need both right so I don't think there's like a positional hierarchy here it's really about the player for you god this is brutal this is absolutely brutal because I thought Fano had a spectacular workout at the combine watching him move in person in person was like a religious experience he's an incredible athlete I know some people say he's interior only I I think he could work at tackle I really do I see him similar to like Zach Martin when Zach Martin was coming out where it's like yeah he could play tackle he'd be an unbelievable guard and Martin was I think with his positional utility you go with Fano here just because they can kind of play him anywhere and it'll work if they want him to compete with juan jones at left tackle fine if they want him to compete with zion at left guard fine if they want to complete compete with elton for center fine he can do all of it the only position two positions that i would say are like firmly settled in cleveland are the right side of the line with tevin and titus everything else i think is up for grabs and like they did their best to bring in free agents just to kind of get them into a decent position for 2026 but fano can legitimately compete for everything from center out to left tackle.

14:39So I'll bring him in, and then we do our best to get our best five on the field for September. Ioane, I think, is an unbelievable prospect in his own right. He's probably going to go off the board pretty quick here, but Fano gives me at least a little bit more utility. The commanders are stoked. David Bailey still available to them. Wow. Who thought this would happen? What a scenario. The choice is Bailey versus – I'm gonna put Sonny Styles here and not love oh no you know what's good I'll put love because I want I want to hear you just address this because I love is right now the commanders of the team I'm seeing linked the most with love so if you were choosing between David Bailey and Jeremiah love who would you choose so they made a concerted effort to bring in free agent backs I think a because they don't expect love to be there and B I think they wanted to give themselves a reason to take something other than running back.

15:37Like they brought in Rashad white. They brought in Jerome Ford. You still got Bill Krosky merit. I really think that they're not, they're not aiming for running back here or rather they're trying to make it. So they're not relying on love being there. So for that, I'll go with Bailey. Cause I think they're running back or their backfield is, is fine right now is love better than all those guys. Yeah. Yeah, I think he is. But it feels like the organization's trying to set it up where they don't have to. Whereas if you're looking at Edge right now, they did bring in O.A. They did bring in Chase on, again, I think to give themselves options.

16:09But I don't think that they're going into this season like saying, oh, we're fine at Edge. I really don't think that's how they're looking at this. And I'm not going to say no to having a four-man rotation, a five-man rotation even, of O.A., Chase on, Bailey, Dorrance Armstrong, Charles Amenahu. like that's a strong rotation i i feel like that's probably the more prudent pick here even though i have a higher grade on love who's taking love before them i mean i didn't give it as an option because i just don't think any of these teams can afford to consider it i guess the giants are an option i i would say the giants would be the main one that i'm looking at there because Cam Scadabo, as much as I like, I think that, you know, Cam coming off injury, and even if Cam was healthy, I still don't think it's in the, it's not the same conversation as far as like talents, right?

17:04And again, if the organizational goal is to make Jackson Dart work, I think Jeremiah Love can help with that. And I've had a lot of debates about running back value this offseason. And, you know, the data says don't take one super high, because you're not going to get contract value. And I'm like, okay, but if you have a rookie, a rookie quarterback, who's giving you contract value, my main thing is like, let's get the most out of that rookie quarterback by giving them easier downs and distances to work with. Like, I think you're going to make back the quote unquote financial value by, by making everything else work better.

17:38Are you more likely to get those easier downs and distances with a wide receiver or improving the offensive line? I think is like the, and I just debate whether the giants are even in position to do that, right? Because the interior of the offensive line and the wide receiver group is a problem. But anyways, I should have given you that as an option to have that debate because I think it's an interesting one of Tate versus Love at five. Okay, but we didn't do that. We're with the New Orleans Saints. A lot of interesting options for them on the board. Love is still on the board for them. They did sign Travis Achan this offseason though to a pretty big contract.

18:15So I'm not going to give that as an option. I'm going to give you Sonny Stiles, who is still here. That's a fun one. And we'll put up Jordan Tyson as wide receiver, too. So Tyson and Stiles for the Saints, both very fun picks, I think. They did bring in Caden Ellis, but I still have to go with Sonny Stiles here. Like, I like Caden Ellis as a player. I not bring in Caden Ellis. I think he was already there. No, he was Atlanta, wasn't he? No, no, they brought him back. yeah they brought it back to Atlanta yeah he came I it's fun it's a fun addition that you know I I still don't think Werner and Ellis are gonna stop me from taking styles and even if it's just like okay we have three great linebackers instead of two that's that's fine with me because Sonny is just such a gifted prospect and I do this thing when I watch uh college players as I try to calibrate my eyes beforehand because it's so easy to see these guys that dominate you know guys that aren't going to be in the NFL and you're like oh my god this player is really good but I have to compare it to what actually has worked in the NFL see how they move compared to like really honestly good NFL players and that that really helps me kind of set the stage for whether or not I I can give these guys a high grade so I watched 2005 Brian Urlacher right before I watched Sonny Stiles it looked pretty similar to me as far as moving ability size everything like that so I was like okay if we're getting Brian Urlacher here I don't care that we already have Warner and Ellis as our linebackers it's not the worst linebacking core in the world it's actually a pretty decent linebacking core that's not stopping me from taking brian urlacher so given the options i think sunny's the best player on the board other than love but they're not going to take love because they brought in a chance so i'm just going to go bpa here and i'll i'll sleep well over it the chiefs at nine some interesting options uh i'm going to give you not going they're the team that signed walker i if some people said they could still sign love it would that would be very dumb to me uh i'm gonna i just can't uh i'm gonna give you i think a fun choice uh well yeah okay jordan tyson still here versus mansur delane the lsu corner two areas of need for kansas city wide receiver and corner i do think it's interesting there's been a trend over the last few picks of teams that brought in free agent running backs because they don't think jeremiah love's going to be there right so now we've had three teams in a row that probably would have taken love otherwise but they're like oh we already brought in a guy so i'm curious to see if he does get past five how far does he go right or or does somebody trade up for him i think now we're entering a not many running back needy teams exactly section here at the turn of the draft so so that's that's the storyline for me to follow um as for the tyson versus mansoor debate i'll go with delane here and it's nothing against tyson as a player it's just i i really don't i don't want to take a guy who is injured this often this high and i don't know why he repeatedly gets dinged up like i don't know if it's an issue with you know how he runs i don't know if it's a nutrition thing.

21:35I don't know if it's a genetics thing. It's just, he gets soft tissue injuries. Like almost nobody I've ever seen before. It's almost like Aaron Foster where it's like, you could, you could kind of count on it happening once every six weeks or so. I don't know what the source is. It is fixable. Like we've seen guys, um, you know, that change their running style or change their diet. And all of a sudden like they stopped tweaking stuff like Aaron Foster. But until that happens, I'm not sure if I can trust him to stay on the field as much as I really need a top 10 pick to stay on the field so i'm gonna go with mansoor delane here very good corner in his own right obviously they need to replace a corner that they just traded away so if we're trying to moneyball this thing and get really good starting corner play for less money i think it's a pretty good value i love the delane chiefs fit um for a litany of reasons i'll get into when i talk about delane in a couple of few weeks but yeah that would be fun all right 10 bangles i'm gonna go the opposite sides of the ball.

22:30Caleb downs who I've not mentioned. Or you want it. Cause as much as everyone thinks bangles defense, they do need a guard. In my opinion, I'll go. You wanna hear. Ooh, I will. I, the Ravens are so mad right now. Oh, they're furious. They're waiting. Maybe I'll do a trade up at some point for the Ravens, but okay. Cause he's, he's so perfect for them too. They need him so bad. Yeah. But, you know, this is the guy who's going to be one of the foundational pieces of the offense. And even though they took Fairchild last year, and I think, you know, as the year went on, I think Fairchild played better.

23:07I still think Juana could probably come in and take Dalton Reisner's job, right? Or at minimum, compete with Fairchild for the starting left guard spot. And considering the history of Cincinnati Bengals guards, I don't think they're going to complain about having three guys that can play for them at any given time because they tend to get injured there a lot anyway. so I I would say that's probably the prudent pick here it's going to raise the floor of the offense and arguably raise the ceiling of the offense too if we can get Chase Brown going by just having room to work with at all so as much as I think downs would be a great fit for them to help fix this defense I think Ioane is overall like my higher graded player and we gotta make we gotta make this offense work with how much money we've invested into it and I don't want to have all that money be wasted because the offensive line can't block anybody 11 is a dolphins let's do the wide receiver debate here tyson versus mckay lemon oh i'll go mckay lemon here i know tyson is like on paper the more talented player but again he does tend to get dinged up a lot and lemon just kind of fits the role that i think that this team needs which is an absolute warrior that works over the middle and doesn't care if he lives or dies you know the aman robst brown comps i fully understand because of that mentality like he does not care if he takes big hits over the middle great hands great yards after catch ability you know he's really more of a pure slot than somebody who can play both inside and outside but I think that they can get him on the field immediately and considering they just traded away Waddle who is a different style of player but like they need bodies at receiver right now their number one on paper is like Jalen Tolbert so I would get mckay lemon in there and feel pretty good about it all right i'm gonna do something i don't i've not seen mentioned a lot for the dallas cowboys i'm gonna introduce jeremiah love back into the equation because we've talked about teams the cowboys brought back williams but on a cheaper contract right and i don't think you know they view him in the same tier as uh walker and a chan uh the other choice is the other best player caleb downs which is obviously a more glaring i would say well safety is actually not their biggest need cornerback and you know defensive line but i digress love versus downs who would you take if you're dallas i think i would go jeremiah love here i really do i think he's the best player in the draft for one so we're just getting value can you imagine him in that offense oh my god he'd be unreal crazy like the fact that you could run pony personnel with javante williams and jeremiah love is unbelievable but also you have to think okay, Javante Williams played well for us.

25:45If he gets hurt, what do we have? Is it Malik Davis is getting 15 carries in the game? It's not Jaden Blue, right? It's not Phil Maffa. So it's like, we don't have anybody else. I'm sick. I have Jaden Blue. He was like my third round pick in Dynasty last year. This is not a great pick. Anyways, yeah. No, it's... It's like, we're not even Javante 25 carries a game. Jeremiah Love would put up such insane numbers in this offense. It would be. It'd be unreal. It'd be unreal. And I think you could legitimately, you could run the ball 28 times a game with this duo, give both of them 14 carries. Like neither one of them is going to get ground down again.

26:27Javante's deal. I'm pretty sure they can get out of it after two years at most might be able to get out of it after one year, but we're still going to have three more years of contract control for love after that before, if you count a tag. So it's not like we're like wasting the rookie deal for Jeremiah love. and he's just the best player like why is it wrong to just go bpa when you have that kind of guy well the reason why too i introduced is because they're a team where he could actually maximize his value because of the ecosystem which is why i was like looking at the giants i'm like i don't know man like i but they do have a lot of needs of defense so you know that's obviously it's more just so like obviously he's probably not going to be there but if he was would be a funny and interesting spot for him uh i'm gonna give you two offensive players for the rams uh i'm gonna go put tyson back here and i'm gonna put kenyan sadiq the tight end out of oregon i'll go kenyan sadiq just because i want to see what sean mcveigh comes up with if he can put four tight ends on the field at once i i think he would um you know he's a great blocker like he can play wide tight end even though he's not like the biggest guy like he he can play wide tight end he blocks obviously he's super fast um and i think he's a really good complementary skill set to what they already have in that tight end room i mean hell he'd be rejoining a former teammate in that tight end in that tight end room and uh i i don't know exactly how mcveigh would use him but i think that's kind of the fun of it is because i know mcveigh would figure it out like i i really really do think that it could be awesome and hell you have him and puka on the field both kind of off the line of scrimmage like who's going to be the insert I don't know I guess we'll find out when the ball is snapped like there's a lot of creative stuff you could do there all right so the Ravens had a desperate needed interior offensive line but unfortunately this draft is really top heavy in that regard like I'm looking at my names and I'm not seeing many options for them so I'm going to go receiver here I'm going to put Jordan Tyson back as an option.

28:28And then I'm going to throw in a corner germad McCoy. Uh, they hit on Nate Wiggins, but opposite him is still a question mark. You know, I think they brought back the Uzi, but I do think they could use another corner. So McCoy versus that's just funny. Cause it's the injured guys who are special kind of matchup. Right. Cause like, I really, they really are kind of two sides of that coin. Who would you take? Boy, the Ravens taking a receiver first round a tradition unlike any other uh i'm gonna go jermaud mccoy though i i do think that he he would be more of an instant impact for this team i'm actually kind of surprised that marlon humphrey's still there i'm not gonna lie i thought he was a cut candidate for them um but he's coming back and you know when you're looking at wiggins okay we like wiggins i think a wuzie you can start a wuzie and feel okay about it but like i think mccoy could take a wuzie's job as a rookie i really do and again i'm not complaining about having four guys that can start for us at corner but even then i kind of feel like marlin's pretty close to to being about that time so if he really does fall off a cliff in 2026 we already have an answer on the team we don't have to keep throwing them out there uh and at receiver i i do think that receiver is an issue for this team as far as depth but there's a bunch of day two receivers that i like that kind of fit the role that i think they need which is like a true outside x receiver um so i think we can we can look at that on day two but you're not getting jermott mccoy on day two agree about that all right the bucks very clear need pass rush so i'm going to give you a choice between two pass rushers keldrick falk out of auburn and a key mesidor out of miami oh i'll go a key mesidor here um he is the kind of guy who can just maximize his rookie contract and this is something that I've really I've really come to believe in over the last year or so especially as we've started to see prospects be older because of NIL having a guy who we think is going to be a key mesador's level by the time he's in his third year of his deal is nice you know you're drafting at 20 years old we're going to develop along the way like Shamar in Cincinnati but if it does take them three years to reach that ceiling, we've kind of burned half the rookie deal, just getting him to the place that Mesador already is at.

30:53So even though he is an older prospect, and it's like, okay, we're not going to get three contracts out of him. We're not going to get three contracts out of most NFL players. I'd rather have a guy who I know is good immediately and can contribute immediately on the rookie deal. We maximize all five years of that rookie deal. And we figure it out as we go, you know, depending on where he's at when he's 28 years old, or whatever he is by the end of his rookie deal but like we're not really getting surplus value on a raw young player if they're not going to be good till year three or year four and i think tampa like they're really trying to get back in the mix right now i don't think they can afford to take a guy that is a few years away from contributing so give me a key mesador yes he's old but he's good and at the end of the day i'm just trying to draft good players the jets already have their edge ish it took our val race but they're back on the clock uh it's the final pick of the first half of the second round a lot of directions they could go in ty simpson will be brought up here if he has not been taken incessantly on every broadcast i guarantee you that um but i i'm gonna give you a choice between a wide receiver in a corner instead uh i'm gonna go jordan tyson again still here uh versus avion Terrell out of Clemson here is where I feel okay with taking Jordan Tyson because the Jets receiving core is really not bad uh in my opinion like you got Garrett Wilson as your one I still believe A.D.

32:21Mitchell has something in him I really do um I don't know for I don't know how long it's going to take to see it but like I I do believe in the talent there but we're not relying on Tyson to be our number one and I think that him is like your immediate likely number two if ad mitchell maximizes his talent maybe even like high high high in number three but like we're getting five years of contract control and we are insulated from injury because we have enough guys that we can put on the field so i think the jets are a pretty good destination for him and again we're just trying to lay the foundation for 2027 when we go up and get whatever guy we actually want if you're coming into a situation where we have uh fashanu and membu uh and we got myers and titman and they just brought in parham like it's good offensive line we've got a good running back mason taylor we believe in plus three receivers that we believe in assuming tyson stays healthy that's a hell of a destination in fact the jets are probably going to be good enough that's a pretty good pretty good offense right there pretty good offense right like geno smith just has to like be average and they're not going to be picking top five which is why they have all those extra picks because they know they're not going to be picking they want to maneuver around yeah i mean honestly like if i'm a just fan i come out of this draft with arville reese and Jordan Tyson.

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35:25Control the daily operations of your business and transform your maintenance program. Go to maintainx.com slash sports. That's maintain and the letter X dot com slash sports. All right, we're back. So the Lions, I would say, trenches both sides of the ball or, you know, edge and offensive line in general. I'm going to just give you two offensive linemen, which is obviously their most glaring need, because I want to hear your thoughts on this debate. We're going to go Lomu. Yeah, I haven't taken my Tukufano. Versus Monroe Freeling. Caleb Lomu, I should say, the tackle out of Utah. I would probably lean Caleb Lomu here.

36:11And it's because A, he's more experienced, and B, I really do believe in the tape. In fact, I would say Lomu is being undervalued, in my opinion, because watching him on tape, I know he does play a little bit high, but it's a position of comfort for him because he tends to take on guys high and then sink into it later in the rep. Some people say he's got technical faults. And it's like that's not a technical fault if that's what he's comfortable with and what he's very effective with. He's got great hands, very, very good technician, again, post contact with the edge rusher, experienced guy. you know he could play left or right great guy to have in the room I I feel like the Lions would be really really comfortable with him being a starting tackle for them on day one the Vikings cannot believe that Caleb Downs is available for them at pick 18 I almost don't I'm trying to find an alternate choice because it would be such a freaking dream for them uh and I am struggling okay so i'll just say the alternate choice here is that they have traded jonathan granard in this hypothetical world and they're considering kelder falk as a pass rusher but like is this really a choice i yeah i i would say it's downs here and they were probably going into the draft thinking that they were going to get the enemon yeah and all of a sudden they're getting caleb down i was like i couldn't bring myself to do downs versus the enemy because i was like come on like let's be serious here and i will say the enemy awesome player i think he could go as high is 12 at 18 it's just this choices yeah yeah it's just how the board broke it's how the board broke exactly um okay we don't even need to talk about it it's so obvious uh the carolina panthers at 19.

37:56so brett when i did my team needs i was actually surprised by how good i felt about the panthers roster i was like wow you actually don't have that many needs on this team it's a really good football team uh i mean receiver linebacker i mean they brought in lloyd obviously but uh tight end you know this is way too early to take tight end too so weirdly like the the draft could go in a bunch of different directions i'm gonna throw in they don't need a corner you know it's like so i'm gonna throw in another pass rush i'm gonna put falk back on here i know that they paid Jalen Phillips and they have got Scorton and they doubled it last year, but I still think it's a thing they could address.

38:42Um, Oh, actually, sorry. No scratch that. I'm going to put the enemy on the board here. I was just thinking, yeah, yeah. He'll come in and take Nick Scott's job. Right. Yeah. Sorry. That was an open time. I mean, the admin versus I'm going to put in Omar Cooper jr. Oh, see now you're, ah, boy. great fit with t-mac i know that's what's tough gotta see what you got in bryce i mean you know make a big decision on him but the enemans probably the better player i i'm still gonna go with the eneman just because i i do think that like they really really need safety help more than they need receiver help and there are some guys on day two that i think would fit well um in this panthers offense and like they're not desperate desperate receiver because they got T-Mac and they got Coker.

39:31And I guess maybe eventually we'll see if you're looking at it works out. But like worst case scenario, okay, Jimmy Hoard Jr. I think can be your three. But I think they can bring in day two receiver. But like we can't pass up on Tiananmen here to come and be our immediate free safety of the future. I think he's an awesome player. I said it, I think he could go as early as like 11 or 12 to Miami or Dallas. So the situation we just had with Minnesota, They would be lucky to get the end of it to begin with. Carolina is really lucky to get the end of it. Pick 20 Dallas. They took love, which is obviously not going to happen.

40:06But in our draft, I love that it did. So got to go defense here. You go multiple positions. I'm going to give you CJ Allen linebacker out of Georgia versus Avion Terrell, the cornerback out of Clemson. oh that's interesting I thought you might throw Falk up there I know I know I think out of those two I'll go Avion Terrell and so we're looking at a corner group of Savone Revel, Kobe Durant who they brought in in free agency as well as Deron Bland to be their nickel but Terrell I think is a really interesting fit for the style of defense that this team's going to play, which is very Vic Fangio-ish.

40:56You know, Fangio's top lieutenant, Parker, is going to be their new DC. And so it's a lot of quarters. It's a lot of quarter, quarter, half, and a lot more man coverage than you would think because within these match zone looks, they're playing man coverage on the outside. And I think considering Derron Bland's going to be your nickel, you need a guy that can match up man to man outside. And I kind of believe in Terrell for that more than I believe in Kobe Durant. I think they brought in Kobe Durant just to make sure they had something. I don't think they're fully settled on him as being like, you're starting outside corner that you can lock on the X backside and, and, and leave them there.