It\u2019s two weeks until draft day. You had questions, I have answers \u2026<\/p>\n
Underrated draft prospects<\/strong><\/p>\n From Logan Franz<\/strong> (@LivingLikeLogan): Any draft prospects that teams seem really high on that fans haven’t quite caught on to yet?<\/p>\n Logan, I\u2019ll give you a few \u2026<\/p>\n \u2022 Teams I\u2019ve talked to really, really like Indiana receiver Omar Cooper Jr., who\u2019s tough as nails, clean character-wise and has the versatility to play inside and outside. Best known for the otherworldly catch he made to beat Penn State, he might be better than any receiver in the draft after the catch, and I think some teams have him right there with the best wideouts in the entire class.<\/p>\n \u2022 More teams than I thought actually prefer Akheem Mesidor to fellow Miami edge Rueben Bain Jr., which both reflects what a good prospect Mesidor is and also illustrates how Bain\u2019s lack of length affects his evaluation in the view of some (but not all) scouts. The problem is Mesidor just turned 25 and has an injury history. But he\u2019s a really, really good player.<\/p>\n \u2022 Arizona State OT Max Iheanachor has helped himself through the process. He\u2019s a heck of a story\u2014an AAU hoops star and Nigerian immigrant who was convinced to give football a shot in junior college, based on his size and athleticism, before becoming a Sun Devil. There\u2019s a ton of room for Iheanachor to grow, and he could become someone\u2019s long-term left tackle, if they have the infrastructure to develop him the right way. Teams are most certainly intrigued.<\/p>\n So that\u2019s three. And we\u2019ll have more in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n Kenneth Walker III<\/strong><\/p>\n From WagonDriver<\/strong> (@jirish24): Do you believe Kenneth Walker to the Chiefs will pay off, short or long term? I was hoping for a Big FA RB to make defenses more honest.<\/p>\n Wagon, I love it. It\u2019s hard to say what this will look like long-term\u2014which in this case would be the third year of the three-year deal he signed\u2014but I\u2019d feel good about it for the next two years, at the very least.<\/p>\n Kenneth Walker III is a good enough receiver to create easy completions for Patrick Mahomes in the passing game, and a tough enough runner to generate more second-and-6s and third-and-2s for the Chiefs, whose run game was highly inconsistent last year. All of that will open things up for a developing receiver group that could get reinforcements in the draft, and create an easier environment for the offensive line to exist in.<\/p>\n Give the Chiefs a healthy Walker, and I think you get an even better Mahomes, too.<\/p>\n I loved the signing.<\/p>\n Dynamic kickoff<\/strong><\/p>\n From Metrowest100<\/strong> (@siofanscom): What are your thoughts on changing kickoffs back to how they used to be? The new rule pretty much eliminates them entirely.<\/p>\n Metrowest, I see no chance that they\u2019re going back to the conventional kickoff. The introduction of the dynamic kickoff wasn\u2019t really meant just to make the kickoff entertaining again\u2014it was to save it from extinction. With more and more rules centered on health and safety applied to them, kickoffs had become a festival of touchbacks to the point where an assumption grew that owners would soon do away with them altogether.<\/p>\n That\u2019s where special teams coaches such as Denver\u2019s Darren Rizzi, Tennessee\u2019s John Fassel and Chicago\u2019s Richard Hightower stepped in and tried to find solutions to save the play, and eventually landed on what\u2019s become known as the dynamic kickoff. With some tweaks, that version of the kickoff has both been safer, and led to more returns, which was the intention.<\/p>\n So, no, I don\u2019t think anyone is going back to the old way.<\/p>\n Dillon Thieneman<\/strong><\/p>\n From Greg Creese<\/strong> (@AquaCoralRep): What’s the top of Dillon Thieneman\u2019s draft range in your opinion? I feel like he’s kinda (rising) \u2026<\/p>\n Greg, Thieneman is an interesting one. He\u2019s a sound tackler, great traffic director and instinctive, whip-smart safety, and he answered a lot of questions by crushing the testing at the combine. The question left for him concerns how stiff he is as a mover and how that will affect him in man coverage, which will be more of a problem in some schemes than others.<\/p>\n But as it stands right now, I\u2019d say he\u2019ll probably go somewhere between picks No. 18 and 40.<\/p>\n Browns\u2019 tight ends<\/strong><\/p>\n From Ray M. McCarron<\/strong> (@MccarronRay): Do the Browns have legitimate interest in Kenyon Sadiq with Monken\u2019s penchant for using two TEs that are playmakers?<\/p>\n Ray, I don\u2019t want to completely rule it out, but I\u2019d say that it might be tough to plan Kenyon Sadiq and Harold Fannin Jr. together. Both are under 6′ 4″, and at their best on the move, ideal to play the \u201cF\u201d tight end position rather than the traditional \u201cY\u201d spot. If you have two \u201cY\u201d tight ends, you can make that work. Doing it with two \u201cF\u201d tight ends is much more difficult, and would hurt you both in the run game and pass protection.<\/p>\n Now, that doesn\u2019t mean Sadiq isn\u2019t a willing blocker (he is) or couldn\u2019t eventually evolve into a guy who could play in-line (he could). It\u2019s just that if you\u2019re taking a guy in the first round, you probably don\u2019t want to have to make all these compromises.<\/p>\n I love Sadiq as a prospect, to be clear. But if you view Fannin as a big part of the Browns\u2019 future, then it\u2019s hard to see exactly where Sadiq fits into that vision.<\/p>\n Jeremiyah Love has been one of the most talked about players in the lead up to the draft. | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n Jeremiyah Love<\/strong><\/p>\n From erickleinphd<\/strong> (@DrEricKlein): There was a report that the Jets had breakfast with Jeremiyah Love, and that the meeting went very well. Do you think that\u2019s just a smoke screen, or could the Jets pull off a shocker and draft Love with the number 2 pick in the draft?<\/p>\n Doc Klein, I answered this in my video mailbag<\/a>, and I\u2019ll answer it here too\u2014I\u2019d be surprised if the Jets took Jeremiyah Love with the second pick. And that has nothing, zero, to do with what I think of him as a football player.<\/p>\n The first reason is just where the Jets are. After trading Sauce Gardner, Quinnen Williams and Jermaine Johnson, the Jets have just one of their seven first-round picks made between 2019 and \u201922 (Garrett Wilson). And now, they have five first-round picks coming this year and next. So clearly, they plan to be young and build, and probably look at getting their quarterback next, not this year, which makes taking a back that high a funky fit.<\/p>\n Second, they just franchise tagged Breece Hall. It\u2019s not like when they did that, they lacked evidence to the type of prospect Love is. And it just seems unlikely to me that if Love were a serious consideration, or the favorite to go No. 2 (and he is worthy of going that high), that the Jets would choose to tag Hall.<\/p>\n Travon Walker extension<\/strong><\/p>\n From Ben Clemmons<\/strong> (@ben_clemmons): Thoughts on the Travon Walker extension and what Jacksonville\u2019s D-line plan looks like?<\/p>\n Ben\u2014this one\u2019s in the video mailbag as well<\/a>. My thoughts are that the Jaguars will continue to pour resources into their defensive front. James Gladstone and Liam Coen have Rams roots, and the Rams go over the top in investing in that area. In fact, if you look over the past three years, L.A. has spent five of its nine top-100 picks on guys for that defensive front (Byron Young and Kobie Turner in 2023, Jared Verse and Braden Fiske in \u201924, Josaiah Stewart last year).<\/p>\n So even with big contracts now in the hands of Walker, Josh Hines-Allen and Arik Armstead, my assumption is Jacksonville will continue to put resources into their positions.<\/p>\n Titans at No. 4<\/strong><\/p>\n From ARP Reez<\/strong> (@Reez_Delaghetto): Why are the Titans worried about drafting a RB at 4 when Cam Ward was the most sacked QB in the NFL?<\/p>\n ARP, because a running back, for the reasons we detailed in the Chiefs question above, can change the dynamic for your quarterback. Ask Jared Goff what Todd Gurley meant to him as a developing young player. Ask Dak Prescott the same about coming in with Zeke Elliott.<\/p>\n Out of the box, Love would be a really good outlet guy in the passing game for Ward, creating layups for the young quarterback. He\u2019d also, presumably, put the offense in second-and-6 and third-and-2 more often\u2014generating situations that open up the offense\u2019s playbook and limit what a defense can do schematically to the quarterback. And in the process, both by piling unblocked yards in the run game, and helping the team get into more situations where pass rushers can\u2019t just tee off, Love would naturally make the line better.<\/p>\n I think it makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n Raiders\u2019 draft plan<\/strong><\/p>\n From AAron<\/strong> (@RaiderAAron34): Raiders and the Round 2\u20134 picks. Who you got them taking??<\/p>\n Aaron, I\u2019d say best available player. Some needs are bigger than others, and certainly edge rusher seems like one area where they\u2019d be less likely to sink picks, with Maxx Crosby and Malcolm Koonce now being joined by Kwity Paye. Ditto for tight end. But the reality is they just need as many good players as they can get.<\/p>\n That said, the receiver group is probably worth mining at the top of the second round (with someone like KC Concepcion), if the tackles (like Iheanachor) are all gone. And I do think addressing those two positions makes sense, in an effort to give Fernando Mendoza a few more guys to grow with<\/a>.<\/p>\n Devon Witherspoon could be looking at a big extension after a Super Bowl season. | Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images<\/p>\n Devon Witherspoon extension<\/strong><\/p>\n From Curtis Allen<\/strong> (@curtis93969): What are you hearing on a potential Devon Witherspoon extension with the Seahawks?<\/p>\n Curtis, the easy thing would be to look at what Trent McDuffie got ($31 million APY), take it up a tick and be done with it. Maybe that\u2019ll work. If it does, the Seahawks should do it.<\/p>\n But I think one thing that\u2019s lingering out here on Witherspoon and New England\u2019s Christian Gonzalez, who share an agent, is how the corner market is lagging behind other premium positions. Nonquarterbacks getting into the 40s on average per year aren\u2019t outliers anymore. There are six of them, in fact: Packers OLB Micah Parsons, Lions DE Aidan Hutchinson, Steelers OLB T.J. Watt, Browns DE Myles Garrett, Bengals WR Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Witherspoon\u2019s own teammate and Offensive Player of the Year Jaxon Smith-Njigba.<\/p>\n![\"Jeremiyah](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01knsv11r4hm2eveeb5h.jpg\" "\\"Jeremiyah")
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