When you’re in rebuild mode it should always be best available. If 5 edge rushers are taken before the Bucs pick, you don’t draft the 6th best defensive end!
Voted Edge, partly because I think there’s a good chance we’ll have a pick of at least 2 of the top 10 players at the position with Howell being the favorite for me.
If Styles falls in our laps, than that’s the pick, but that’s feeling like a pipe dream at this point.
Wouldn’t be shocked if we pick a CB.
I’d be absolutely floored if we picked a WR, but if it’s Denzel Boston I’d be okay with that.
TE? I’m throwing something at the tv
Raiders are going to pick Mendoza, and I’m hoping at least half of the other 13 teams picking before us make a run on a bunch of offensive players. Get those guys out of the way and push as many of the top defenders down to us at 15 as possible.
Need and talent dont always align, i.e. Hall, JTS, Braswell, Hargreaves, Arguyo, erc. Those were some gems.
Always BPA. Except this year, Im passing on a receiver.
Please no Howell or Faulk in round 1.
Watch Licht get a WR or TE. It should be all defense for the forst 4 rounds. He better find some talent that plays good immediately or this might be his last draft. Last year’s draft was bad so he can only do better…right?
Huh….. Only 1.65% voted Quarterback. Maybe the need for a replacement for Baker isn’t quite as important as Mulch thinks. Could it be he’s wrong? Could that happen?
Drafting the 4th best edge rusher on the board is a stupid use of assets if a higher rated player is there. If Sadiq is there, take him. I’d rather have Sadiq than the next Joe Tryon Shoyinka (an example of reaching for need).
If there’s a stud at ILB sitting there at 15 you take them. This team cant evaluate edge rushers to save their life. Take the slam dunk at ILB if the value is there. Teams find value at edge in every round of the draft. There’s late round and even undrafted players that turn into productive rushers. This team just doesnt know how to find them or develop them.
We desperately need defensive line depth. We need a big beastly body in there. That’s my top priority and LB a very close 2nd. No point in drafting an edge cause Bowles has no clue how to develop one unless one of the Miami kids are there at 15.
March 22nd, 2026 at 8:32 am
Since Sonny Styles ain’t gonna be there. Edge rush bayyyy beeee!
March 22nd, 2026 at 8:36 am
When you’re in rebuild mode it should always be best available. If 5 edge rushers are taken before the Bucs pick, you don’t draft the 6th best defensive end!
March 22nd, 2026 at 8:42 am
CB is a need – as is NT/DT….
But Edge and ILB are bigger needs – and both OLB and ILB are strengths of this draft.
I like trading back to gain an extra day 2 pick and then take the best ILB on the board somewhere in the 20s…. (Allen?)
1. ILB
2. Edge
3. NT/DT
3. Edge
4. CB/ ILB/ OG
THAT is how you fix this defense!
March 22nd, 2026 at 8:46 am
Bowles has never been able to draft and develop an Edge so there’s no point in chasing one. Styles will be gone by 15.
I am OK with Sadiq as a huge upgrade at TE or trading out to get more picks
March 22nd, 2026 at 8:51 am
Voted Edge, partly because I think there’s a good chance we’ll have a pick of at least 2 of the top 10 players at the position with Howell being the favorite for me.
If Styles falls in our laps, than that’s the pick, but that’s feeling like a pipe dream at this point.
Wouldn’t be shocked if we pick a CB.
I’d be absolutely floored if we picked a WR, but if it’s Denzel Boston I’d be okay with that.
TE? I’m throwing something at the tv
Raiders are going to pick Mendoza, and I’m hoping at least half of the other 13 teams picking before us make a run on a bunch of offensive players. Get those guys out of the way and push as many of the top defenders down to us at 15 as possible.
March 22nd, 2026 at 8:53 am
DL
March 22nd, 2026 at 9:07 am
Need and talent dont always align, i.e. Hall, JTS, Braswell, Hargreaves, Arguyo, erc. Those were some gems.
Always BPA. Except this year, Im passing on a receiver.
Please no Howell or Faulk in round 1.
March 22nd, 2026 at 9:25 am
So the question should be….Who has Bowles actually developed and same player has been able to maintain that level after a year?
March 22nd, 2026 at 9:35 am
Watch Licht get a WR or TE. It should be all defense for the forst 4 rounds. He better find some talent that plays good immediately or this might be his last draft. Last year’s draft was bad so he can only do better…right?
March 22nd, 2026 at 9:39 am
Voted for receiver for the heck of it. BPA front 7 is the move
March 22nd, 2026 at 9:51 am
Huh….. Only 1.65% voted Quarterback. I guess practically everyone is an idiot. Except for Rod Mulch, of course.
March 22nd, 2026 at 9:56 am
Huh….. Only 1.65% voted Quarterback. Maybe the need for a replacement for Baker isn’t quite as important as Mulch thinks. Could it be he’s wrong? Could that happen?
March 22nd, 2026 at 10:07 am
Doesn’t matter, Todd Bowles is still head coach.
March 22nd, 2026 at 11:04 am
Don’t reach for need. End of story.
Drafting the 4th best edge rusher on the board is a stupid use of assets if a higher rated player is there. If Sadiq is there, take him. I’d rather have Sadiq than the next Joe Tryon Shoyinka (an example of reaching for need).
March 22nd, 2026 at 11:24 am
New head coach.
March 22nd, 2026 at 11:51 am
Won’t be an edge left worth 15th pick. Either ILB or Corner. Lots of quality interior D line prospects rounds 3-5.
March 22nd, 2026 at 12:05 pm
If there’s a stud at ILB sitting there at 15 you take them. This team cant evaluate edge rushers to save their life. Take the slam dunk at ILB if the value is there. Teams find value at edge in every round of the draft. There’s late round and even undrafted players that turn into productive rushers. This team just doesnt know how to find them or develop them.
March 22nd, 2026 at 12:20 pm
Trade back a little and grab a good ILB and an extra pick.
March 22nd, 2026 at 12:29 pm
We desperately need defensive line depth. We need a big beastly body in there. That’s my top priority and LB a very close 2nd. No point in drafting an edge cause Bowles has no clue how to develop one unless one of the Miami kids are there at 15.