COMMANDERS MOCK DRAFT GRADE C+

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Washington Commanders

The Commanders drew a line under the quarterback search with Maye: C+.

by Goku122 · 2024 NFL Draft · 11 picks · 6 steals · 0 reaches
Value B+
Need B+
Trades D+
Future D

After circling the position for what felt like forever, the Commanders committed. Drake Maye is the quarterback now, and the roster gets built to his timeline. The good and the questionable cancel out to a C+.

Getting Cooper where they did is the sort of value that quietly makes a class. They will regret leaving running back for another day if the season turns on it.

Bottom line, the swing picks will decide whether this ages well.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.8 · Pick 8 · Drake Maye · QB · rank 5
In No. 8 they get their quarterback of the future at fair value. A clean fit for the roster.
R1.25 · Pick 25 · JC Latham · OT · rank 18
JC Latham at pick 25 nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R2.4 · Pick 36 · Bralen Trice · DE-EDGE · rank 37
A market-rate edge rusher, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Bralen Trice. The roster fit checks out.
R2.8 · Pick 40 · Adonai Mitchell · WR · rank 32
Adonai Mitchell slipping to the 40th pick is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R3.3 · Pick 67 · Jackson Powers-Johnson · C · rank 51
Jackson Powers-Johnson at slot 67 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R3.28 · Pick 91 · Edgerrin Cooper · LB · rank 58
A top-tier linebacker at a bargain, Edgerrin Cooper in the Round 3 slot, plain and simple. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
R3.37 · Pick 100 · Christian Mahogany · OG · rank 80
A offensive lineman of that caliber at Round 3, Pick 37 is the definition of value, full stop. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R4.2 · Pick 102 · Tyler Davis · DT · rank 96
A tidy little value on Tyler Davis in the 102nd overall pick, a step better than break-even. It fills a real need, too.
R5.5 · Pick 141 · Kris Abrams-Draine · CB · rank 120
Kris Abrams-Draine in slot 141 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R6.6 · Pick 181 · Trey Knox · TE · rank 182
They took Trey Knox at par in Round 6, Pick 6, which is nothing to complain about. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
R7.3 · Pick 223 · Christian Jones · OT · rank 197
Circle this one: Christian Jones at the Round 7 slot is a fall that decides a draft. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
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