Not sure how this was compiled, but if it's accurate, we got trash value for our draft picks since 2022 relative to the rest of the league. On the other hand, Ross may have done well to pick a personnel guy from the Packers, who are ahead of everyone else. Hopefully, Sully can work some of that magic in his new home.
2025 1 Kenneth Grant 13 DT 2025 2 Jonah Savaiinaea 37 OL 2025 5 Jordan Phillips 143 DL 2025 5 Jason Marshall 150 CB 2025 5 Dante Trader 155 SAF 2025 6 Ollie Gordon 179 RB 2025 7 Quinn Ewers 231 QB 2025 7 Zeek Biggers 253 DL 2024 1 Chop Robinson 21 DE 2024 2 Patrick Paul 55 OL 2024 4 Jaylen Wright 120 RB 2024 5 Mohamed Kamara 158 DL 2024 6 Malik Washington 184 WR 2024 6 Patrick McMorris 198 DB 2024 7 Tahj Washington 241 WR 2023 2 Cam Smith 51 DB 2023 3 De'Von Achane 84 RB 2023 6 Elijah Higgins 197 WR 2023 7 Ryan Hayes 238 OL 2 2022 3 Channing Tindall 102 LB 2022 4 Erik Ezukanma 125 WR 2022 7 Cameron Goode 224 OLB 2022 7 Skylar Thompson 247 QB Not many of those names are still on the roster...but you'd think we'd have enough to earn a dot on the board. We're in last place because so many of those picks were a bust or we let them walk away in free agency.
I believe there's only 3 current players: Achane, Austin Jackson, and Sieler who were on the 2023 roster. Considerable turnover. A good, necessary thing, IMO.
I might be drinking orange (and aqua) Kool-Aid, but I still think there's potential for the last couple year's picks to produce. Actually, we need them to show significant development on those rookie deals to avoid filling the Sunday afternoon candy dish with Prozac and Lexapro instead of M&Ms.
Pat Paul seems to be solid, which is funny because it wasn't a very popular pick. Malik seems a good depth reciever. Chop had a bad regression after a decent rookie season. The 2025 class has some promise, especially Grant and Phillips at DT. But man, pretty much everything prior to last year is a wasteland from Charles Harris to the devastating misses of the Tua draft. We had four - FOUR - top 40 picks and ONE is still on the team and only because he took a big pay cut and will likely be gone next year. The one good player (Hunt) we let walk in favor of crap extensions for trash.
