COMMANDERS MOCK DRAFT GRADE C-

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Washington Commanders

Best value of the weekend goes to the Commanders for Benson: C-.

by Realbd · 2024 NFL Draft · 11 picks · 5 steals · 1 reaches
Value B
Need B
Trades F
Future A+

When a board-topper like Trey Benson slides to the 102nd pick, you do not overthink it, and the Commanders did not.

The trade table is where this weekend went wrong. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through wide receiver.

If Logue pans out, nobody remembers the price. If not, this is the pick they hear about. The hoard sets up next April more than it helps this September.

If Tyler Nubin and a couple of the gambles land, hindsight will be kinder than this grade.

Pick-by-Pick

R2.4 · Pick 36 · Tyler Nubin · S · rank 33
Fair-plus on Tyler Nubin, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
R2.8 · Pick 40 · Graham Barton · OT · rank 32
They let Graham Barton come to them and pounced at slot 40. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
R2.19 · Pick 51 · Quinyon Mitchell · CB · rank 35
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Quinyon Mitchell at pick No. 51. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R3.3 · Pick 67 · Payton Wilson · LB · rank 70
Payton Wilson at the Round 3 slot is right where the board had him, plain and simple. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
R3.17 · Pick 81 · Cooper Beebe · OG · rank 78
Good price on Cooper Beebe in No. 81, a hair ahead of his grade with no real quibbles. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R3.37 · Pick 100 · Tyler Davis · DT · rank 95
A clean, defensible pick in the 100th overall pick with a little surplus value in Tyler Davis. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
R4.2 · Pick 102 · Trey Benson · RB · rank 72
They robbed the room for Trey Benson here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. The roster fit checks out.
R5.5 · Pick 141 · Nehemiah Pritchett · CB · rank 141
They paid sticker price for Nehemiah Pritchett in Round 5, Pick 5, and that is fine. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R6.6 · Pick 181 · Jaylan Ford · LB · rank 173
Jaylan Ford is a better player than the 181st pick suggests; smart patience, rewarded. They doubled down on a strength rather than a need.
R7.3 · Pick 223 · Omar Speights · LB · rank 201
You do not let a linebacker like Omar Speights reach the Round 7 slot and blink. They did not. Nice player, but the depth chart did not need him here.
R7.8 · Pick 228 · Zion Logue · DL · rank 241
A premium they did not need to pay, Zion Logue a notch or two before his time. A need, and now a little less of one.
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