B-
Los Angeles Chargers
Nothing loud, just a tidy B- for the Chargers.
by Christeca ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 5 picks
· 2 steals
· 2 reaches
You can hear the double-takes from here. The Chargers took Billy Schrauth at pick 55, roughly 56 spots before his name belonged. The bottom line is a respectable B-.
That is a wide receiver worth more than the slot they spent on him, plainly. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through edge rusher.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the edge rusher spot they never got to.
Pick-by-Pick
In the Round 1 slot they get a load in the middle at fair value. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
A wild overpay on Billy Schrauth in the 55th pick, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
They jumped the gun on Bud Clark, taking him earlier than his grade liked. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Julian Neal in No. 123. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
You do not let a wide receiver like Jeff Caldwell reach pick 204 and blink. They did not. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.