COMMANDERS MOCK DRAFT GRADE A-

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Washington Commanders

The Commanders robbed the room for Jones. Final grade: A-.

by mwilliams · 2024 NFL Draft · 15 picks · 5 steals · 4 reaches
Value B-
Need B
Trades A+
Future A+

Thirty-one other rooms let Jarrian Jones slide, and the Commanders were the ones holding the card at slot 181. Highway robbery. Just about everything broke right, and the A- follows.

They robbed the room blind at the table, and it lifts the grade on its own. Every board in the league had Suamataia lower, and that gap is the story.

A whole weekend of picks and edge rusher is somehow still a want. The Commanders indulged a want in Solomon while a need in edge rusher stayed open.

It is a haul that will look even better come September.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.10 · Pick 10 · Olumuyiwa Fashanu · OT · rank 9
In slot 10 they get protection for the quarterback. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
R2.4 · Pick 36 · Ja'Tavion Sanders · TE · rank 36
By-the-book stuff, Ja'Tavion Sanders at Round 2, Pick 4 squarely in line with his ranking. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R2.5 · Pick 37 · Kingsley Suamataia · OT · rank 57
They reached into another round for Kingsley Suamataia, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R2.8 · Pick 40 · T'Vondre Sweat · DT · rank 47
T'Vondre Sweat at the Round 2 slot is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
R2.15 · Pick 47 · Bo Nix · QB · rank 31
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Bo Nix in pick 47. A need, and now a little less of one.
R3.3 · Pick 67 · Cooper Beebe · OG · rank 75
A reach for Cooper Beebe in No. 67; a little patience would have been rewarded. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
R3.5 · Pick 69 · Jeremiah Trotter Jr. · LB · rank 59
Jeremiah Trotter Jr. at the 69th pick is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
R3.8 · Pick 72 · Xavier Legette · WR · rank 73
A market-rate wide receiver, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Xavier Legette. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R4.1 · Pick 101 · Javon Solomon · OLB-EDGE · rank 113
They bypassed pressing needs at edge rusher to take Javon Solomon, an OLB-EDGE that was not the priority.
R4.3 · Pick 103 · Khyree Jackson · CB · rank 81
You do not let a cornerback like Khyree Jackson reach the Round 4 slot and blink. They did not. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R4.4 · Pick 104 · Audric Estime · RB · rank 100
Audric Estime at pick 104 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. The roster fit checks out.
R5.2 · Pick 138 · Tommy Eichenberg · LB · rank 143
No edge and no loss on Tommy Eichenberg in the 138th pick; it is a wash and a sensible one. Pure best-available; the position was not exactly begging.
R6.6 · Pick 181 · Jarrian Jones · CB · rank 148
A cornerback of that caliber at Round 6, Pick 6 is the definition of value, full stop. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R6.45 · Pick 220 · Brevyn Spann-Ford · TE · rank 237
They paid up for Brevyn Spann-Ford at the 220th overall pick when waiting would have done the job. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
R7.34 · Pick 254 · Sheridan Jones · CB · rank 230
Sheridan Jones in pick No. 254 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
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