CHARGERS MOCK DRAFT GRADE C+

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Los Angeles Chargers

Flashes of a plan, unevenly executed. Chargers: C+.

by TheUltimateCharge · 2024 NFL Draft · 11 picks · 5 steals · 3 reaches
Value C
Need B
Trades A-
Future D

The tape said wait; the Chargers did not. Payton Wilson went at the 23rd overall pick, a good 34 picks before the board was ready.

A whole weekend of picks and edge rusher is somehow still a want. The Newton pick is the one they will point to when this weekend is judged.

They squeezed a little extra out of every move they made.

If Jackson Powers-Johnson and a couple of the gambles land, hindsight will be kinder than this grade.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.11 · Pick 11 · Jackson Powers-Johnson · C · rank 32
In the Round 1 slot they get an anchor for the offensive line, though the board says they badly overpaid.
R1.23 · Pick 23 · Payton Wilson · LB · rank 57
Payton Wilson at the 23rd pick is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
R2.19 · Pick 51 · Braden Fiske · DL · rank 58
Braden Fiske in No. 51 is fair value, right on his grade. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R3.5 · Pick 69 · Xavier Worthy · WR · rank 55
Xavier Worthy at pick No. 69 is money in the bank, a wide receiver taken below his worth. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R3.20 · Pick 84 · Renardo Green · S · rank 78
Renardo Green in Round 3, Pick 20 is fine work, a shade of surplus and no downside. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
R4.5 · Pick 105 · MarShawn Lloyd · RB · rank 97
MarShawn Lloyd at the 105th overall pick is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. A need, and now a little less of one.
R4.10 · Pick 110 · Brenden Rice · WR · rank 96
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Brenden Rice at the Round 4 slot is the proof. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
R5.4 · Pick 140 · Josh Newton · CB · rank 122
Josh Newton in the 140th pick is a gift, value that borders on unfair. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R6.6 · Pick 181 · AJ Barner · TE · rank 171
The board had AJ Barner higher than pick 181, and the tight end fell to them anyway. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
R7.5 · Pick 225 · LaDarius Henderson · OT · rank 252
LaDarius Henderson at Round 7, Pick 5 is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
R7.33 · Pick 253 · Josh Wallace · CB · rank 250
Josh Wallace in the 253rd overall pick lands just on the right side of the ledger. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
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