B-
Washington Commanders
Nothing loud, just a tidy B- for the Commanders.
by WannaBeJudon1020 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 15 picks
· 6 steals
· 3 reaches
The Commanders bet big and early on John Emery Jr., 96 picks ahead of the board. Bold does not always mean right.
That Tampa pick is the receipt they will wave around later. That interior defensive lineman hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall.
Good work on the whole, with interior defensive lineman the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
They paid sticker price for Troy Fautanu in No. 26, and that is fine. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Troy Franklin at pick No. 38 is money in the bank, a wide receiver taken below his worth. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Edgerrin Cooper at the 58th pick is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
A reasonable price with a little left over, Chris Braswell in pick 60. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
T.J. Tampa in Round 3, Pick 3 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A clean, defensible pick in the 78th overall pick with a little surplus value in Blake Corum. The roster fit checks out.
A wide receiver of that caliber at slot 100 is the definition of value, full stop. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
No edge and no loss on Michael Pratt in the Round 4 slot; it is a wash and a sensible one. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
They reached into another round for Delmar Glaze, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
The board fumbled Nelson Ceaser all the way to No. 142, and they scooped it up. It fills a real need, too.
They let Kitan Oladapo come to them and pounced at pick 183. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Christian Jones in the 220th pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Steele Chambers at pick No. 223 is a conviction pick that outran the value. A luxury on a unit that was already in good shape.
They took Brevyn Spann-Ford at par in Round 7, Pick 6, which is nothing to complain about. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
John Emery Jr. at Round 7, Pick 27 is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
