B-
Washington Commanders
The steal of the weekend belongs to the Commanders and Lachey: B-.
by Skitzc ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 7 picks
· 2 steals
· 3 reaches
Thirty-one other rooms let Luke Lachey slide, and the Commanders were the ones holding the card at the 250th overall pick. Highway robbery. More right than wrong, and a B- to match.
The Dellinger reach is the anchor dragging on the value grade. The dealing alone would carry a lesser class.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through edge rusher.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick No. 29 they get a downhill hitter at safety. More want than need.
They barely believed it either: Jalon Walker still on the board at No. 61. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
A market-rate running back, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Quinshon Judkins. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
They left a pile of value on the table to take Kyren Lacy this early at the 97th pick. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Cobee Bryant at the Round 5 slot is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
A wild overpay on Garrett Dellinger in Round 7, Pick 20, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Luke Lachey at the 250th overall pick is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.