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Los Angeles Chargers
The steal of the weekend belongs to the Chargers and Jacobs: A-.
by timroot1966 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 10 picks
· 4 steals
· 2 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Curtis Jacobs, pick 223, roughly 38 picks past where he belonged.
The trade ledger is the best part of the whole weekend. The interior defensive lineman hole is the one line item this class does not answer.
If Guerendo pans out, nobody remembers the price. If not, this is the pick they hear about.
In short, they turned a good board into a better roster, and it shows.
Pick-by-Pick
In slot 10 they get a quarterback's worst nightmare at fair value. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
They paid a round early for Jackson Powers-Johnson in pick No. 37, more than the board wanted. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Jermaine Burton at the Round 3 slot is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Matt Goncalves at Round 4, Pick 6 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. The roster fit checks out.
A straight-up fair deal on Kamal Hadden at the 139th overall pick, value and slot in agreement. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
By-the-book stuff, Trey Knox at the 183rd pick squarely in line with his ranking. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Somehow Braelon Allen was still sitting there in pick 187, and they pounced on premier running back value. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Circle this one: Curtis Jacobs at No. 223 is a fall that decides a draft. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
They let Jaylen Harrell come to them and pounced at pick No. 226. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
They reached a country mile for Isaac Guerendo at No. 256, and the board is aghast. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.