COMMANDERS MOCK DRAFT GRADE A-

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Washington Commanders

Daniels is the plan now, and the Commanders grade out a A-.

by Klife56 · 2024 NFL Draft · 10 picks · 2 steals · 2 reaches
Value B-
Need B
Trades A+
Future A

Call it a hunch or call it a gamble, but the Commanders spent pick No. 222 on Taulia Tagovailoa, a name most had 66 spots down the list. This is how you run a draft, and the A- reflects it.

Everything downstream of Jayden Daniels depends on Jayden Daniels, and the building knows it. The phones were where this weekend was really won. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through cornerback.

Whatever else happened, they won the night they took Corley.

In the end it comes back to Jayden Daniels, and a haul good enough to build on right away.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.5 · Pick 5 · Jayden Daniels · QB · rank 7
In the Round 1 slot they get a franchise quarterback at fair value. A real need, handled.
R2.4 · Pick 36 · Kingsley Suamataia · OT · rank 61
This one needs a full-page explanation: Kingsley Suamataia in the 36th overall pick, miles early. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
R2.5 · Pick 37 · Darius Robinson · DL-EDGE · rank 39
Darius Robinson in No. 37 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
R2.8 · Pick 40 · Ja'Tavion Sanders · TE · rank 36
Ja'Tavion Sanders at slot 40 nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R3.3 · Pick 67 · Jeremiah Trotter Jr. · LB · rank 67
A market-rate linebacker, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Jeremiah Trotter Jr.. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
R3.14 · Pick 78 · Malachi Corley · WR · rank 60
Malachi Corley in Round 3, Pick 14 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R4.1 · Pick 101 · Dominick Puni · OT · rank 89
Dominick Puni slipping to pick 101 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R5.3 · Pick 139 · Roger Rosengarten · OT · rank 135
Roger Rosengarten at pick No. 139 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R5.16 · Pick 152 · Sione Vaki · S · rank 158
No edge and no loss on Sione Vaki in No. 152; it is a wash and a sensible one. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
R7.2 · Pick 222 · Taulia Tagovailoa · QB · rank 288
Taulia Tagovailoa at the 222nd overall pick is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
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