COMMANDERS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B+

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Washington Commanders

The Commanders left with their quarterback, and a B+ to match.

by mwilliams · 2024 NFL Draft · 12 picks · 3 steals · 4 reaches
Value B-
Need B
Trades A+
Future A-

The one hole that towered over the rest is filled. The Commanders spent their marquee pick on Bo Nix, and for the first time in a while there is a real answer at quarterback. Good, not great, and the B+ says as much.

The phones were where this weekend was really won. However the rest shakes out, Corley at that price is a win they earned.

The Solomon pick is fine in a vacuum, less so with interior defensive lineman still on the board. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped interior defensive lineman, which is a strange place to end up.

The Wiley reach is the anchor dragging on the value grade.

Solid rather than spectacular, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.6 · Pick 6 · Olumuyiwa Fashanu · OT · rank 10
In pick 6 they get an anchor for the offensive line. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
R1.26 · Pick 26 · Bo Nix · QB · rank 23
In No. 26 they get the face of the franchise at fair value. A real need, handled.
R2.2 · Pick 34 · Graham Barton · OT · rank 32
Graham Barton at the 34th overall pick is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R2.4 · Pick 36 · Kamren Kinchens · S · rank 25
Kamren Kinchens at the 36th pick is money in the bank, a safety taken below his worth. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
R2.7 · Pick 39 · Chris Braswell · LB-EDGE · rank 34
A clean, defensible pick in slot 39 with a little surplus value in Chris Braswell. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
R2.8 · Pick 40 · Jackson Powers-Johnson · C · rank 52
Jackson Powers-Johnson at pick No. 40 jumps the queue by a touch more than is comfortable. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R3.3 · Pick 67 · Cooper Beebe · OG · rank 78
A conviction pick on Cooper Beebe at the Round 3 slot that the board grades a round light. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R3.37 · Pick 100 · Javon Solomon · OLB-EDGE · rank 108
The eyebrow-raiser of the weekend. They went OLB-EDGE with Javon Solomon while clear needs at interior defensive lineman sat open.
R4.2 · Pick 102 · Malachi Corley · WR · rank 79
The board fumbled Malachi Corley all the way to pick 102, and they scooped it up. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
R5.5 · Pick 141 · Kamal Hadden · CB · rank 134
Fair-plus on Kamal Hadden, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R6.6 · Pick 181 · Jared Wiley · TE · rank 196
A premium they did not need to pay, Jared Wiley a notch or two before his time. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R7.3 · Pick 223 · Jawhar Jordan · RB · rank 202
Jawhar Jordan at the Round 7 slot is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
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