COMMANDERS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B

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Washington Commanders

The Commanders drew a line under the quarterback search with McCarthy: B.

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

They finally answered the question that shadows every other one. J.J. McCarthy is the Commanders' quarterback, full stop.

Goncalves falling to them is the kind of break a good board is built to catch. The Fisher reach is the anchor dragging on the value grade. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through interior defensive lineman.

Not a headline-grabber, but a perfectly good weekend's work.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.8 · Pick 8 · J.J. McCarthy · QB · rank 27
In the Round 1 slot they get a long-term answer under center, though the board says they badly overpaid.
R2.4 · Pick 36 · Darius Robinson · DL-EDGE · rank 36
They paid sticker price for Darius Robinson in the 36th pick, and that is fine. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R2.8 · Pick 40 · Blake Fisher · OT · rank 69
Blake Fisher at pick No. 40 is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R2.11 · Pick 43 · Ja'Tavion Sanders · TE · rank 41
Ja'Tavion Sanders in slot 43 is fair value, right on his grade. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R2.15 · Pick 47 · Xavier Legette · WR · rank 52
By-the-book stuff, Xavier Legette at Round 2, Pick 15 squarely in line with his ranking. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R3.3 · Pick 67 · Tyler Nubin · S · rank 40
Tyler Nubin at No. 67 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
R3.14 · Pick 78 · Austin Booker · DE-EDGE · rank 68
Austin Booker slipping to the 78th overall pick is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
R3.37 · Pick 100 · Jarvis Brownlee Jr. · CB · rank 116
They liked Jarvis Brownlee Jr. enough to skip the value, taking him in pick 100. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R4.7 · Pick 107 · Bucky Irving · RB · rank 133
Bucky Irving in the 107th pick is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
R5.3 · Pick 139 · Matt Goncalves · OT · rank 106
Matt Goncalves at Round 5, Pick 3 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R5.16 · Pick 152 · Johnny Wilson · WR · rank 120
The board fumbled Johnny Wilson all the way to the Round 5 slot, and they scooped it up. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R7.2 · Pick 222 · Garret Greenfield · OT · rank 229
Garret Greenfield at pick 222 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
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