NFL Draft Review: NFC Draft Grades.

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The 2022 NFL Draft, Held In Las Vegas, Extinghuished Like The Nights Of Ienbraietd Esctacy The City’s Famed. Fittingly In Easter, The Event Passed Like The Few Verses Separating The Death and Resurrection Of Christ. In 72 Hours Timelapse, 10 Plus Hour Podcast. Innumerable Hours Of typing.

“Scary Hours”

Teams Turned in their Cards On Picks Faster Than Bad Stock At The Nasdaq. Quarterbacks Fell. So Did The Best Line Backer By Most Account. At One Point Projected First Round Selection, Georgia’s Nakobe Dean. The Eagles Took In The Third Round(83rd.) The Slide Negated Dean From Joining Other Stalwarts Of Georgia Defense Who Breach The First Round And Set The Record for defensive Players Drafted by One Team In The First. Travon Walker (first overall), Jordan Davis (13th), Quay Walker (22nd), Devonte Wyatt (28th), and Lewis Cine (32nd). However, The Eagles Drafting Dean Reunites Him With Jordan Davis And Med, Both Two Of A Record-Breaking Fifteen Bulldogs Drafted. With the Packers Drafting Two In The First Round and The Falcons Drafting Two Other In Later Rounds.

Trades Were All The buzz. Teams Checked Their Boards As “Their Guy”. “If He Falls Go Get Him,” Said Joe Douglas Of The Jets. Before Jermaine Johnson Landed In New York. More Tumbles And Tuck Away Like That One Dominated the Evening. Team Moved Up To Snatch Receivers Off The Board. Team Like the Eagles, and Cardinals, Made Moves To Grab Disgruntled playmakers From Other Rosters In Exchange For Late First Round Picks.

With Just One First Round Pick, The Eagles Went Big. Who Else Optimized Their Selections? More Questions:

 NFC South

Atlanta Falcons: A

Round 1 (8): Drake London, WR, USC round 2 (38): Arnold Ebiketie, EDGE, Penn State round 2 (58): Troy Andersen, LB, Montana State Round 3 (74): Desmond Ridder, QB, Cincinnati Round 3 (82): DeAngelo Malone, EDGE, Western Kentucky Round 5 (151): Tyler Allgeier, RB, BYU Round 6 (190): Justin Shaffer, OG, Georgia Round 6 (213): John FitzPatrick, TE, Georgia

The Falcons Have Scored On Their First-Round Picks Dating Back To Maybe Julio. I Cant Recall A Recent Missed, especially At Pass catcher. The Streak Continued In 2022. They Needed A Receiver And Got a great One—the First Receiver Off The Board In Drake London. London May Not Finish His Career As The Best Of  This Group, and Neither Will Mike Evans Of The 2014 Group, But He Won’t Miss Or Bust. He’s Pro Bowl Ready And Will Complement The Rest Of The Offense. An Automatic Find in The End-zone. The Falcons Then Turned To Improve One Of The League’s Worse Defense With Edge Rusher Arnold Ebiketie And Linebacker Troy Anderson. The Falcons The. Drafted SoMe Quarterback Insurance With Desmond Ridder.

Carolina Panthers: A-

Round 1 (6) -- Ikem “Ickey’’ Ekwonu, LT, N.C. State; Round 3 (94) -- Matt Corral, QB, Ole Miss; Round 4 (120) -- Brandon Smith, LB, Penn State; Round 6 (189) -- Amare’ Barno, OLB-Edge, Virginia Tech; (199) Cade Mays, C-G, Tennessee; Round 7 (242) – Kalon Barnes, CB, Baylor.

With Only Six Picks And Matt Rhule’s Job On The Line With Every Snap To Come. The Panthers Walkaway From a First Round Quarterback But Still Walk Away From The Draft With The Best One Available Whose Presence Could Assure Matt Rhule’s Presence Beyond 2022. Starting With Round, The Panthers Selected Ickey Ekwonu, The Bulldozing Tackle From NC State. I Can Already Hear The Panthers Run Game With Christian McCaffrey Raving Up Over The Shoulder. The Run Will Also Aide Qurtaerback Matt Carrol Whenever He Gets a Chance To Hold the reigns Of the Offense. The RPO Specialist Will Have a Brilliant Second Option On the Ground should His Game Not Progress. On the Back End, The Panther Selected to Linebacker Prospects in Amare Barno In Rounds 4 and 6. Barno Slid But Wow, He Can Run. The Virginia Tech Hookie Ran A 4.36 At The Combine.

New Orleans Saints: A

Round 1 (11): WR Chris Olave, Ohio State. Round 1 (19): OT Trevor Penning, Northern Iowa. Round  2 (49): CB Alontae Taylor, Tennessee. Round 5 (161): LB D'Marco Jackson, Appalachian State. Round 6 (194): DT Jordan Jackson, Air Force.

A Plus One.  In the light Of the Olave Pick Alone. The Saints Had To Give up A Bounty To Move Up  To 11th To Select The Ohio State Swoosh Artist. Turn The Tape on For Ohio State Offensive Lineman Nicholas Petit-Frere, And You’ll See Chris Olave Scoring A Touchdown, Again And Again, Touchdown After Touchdown After Touchdown. He’s that Kind Of Good. The Saints Won’t Miss Those Pick When The Passing Offense Finds Life Again. Olave Symbolizes Poetry In Motion. He Puts The Rest Of the Field Out, Of course. Like All Of The Other Players Are Moving In “SLO-MO.” The Saints Continued To Support the Struggling offense with Their Second Selection Of The First Round Tackle Trevor Penning. With Their Finally Three Picks In the Depleted Draft, the Saints Address The Defense. Cornerback Alontae Taylor, Tennessee. Linebacker Demarco Jackson and Defensive Tackle Jordan Jackson.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers: B

Round 2Houston DT Logan Haul ( No. 33); Round 2 Central Michigan OT Luke Goedeke (No. 57); Round 3Arizona State RB Rachaad White (No. 91); Washington Round 4 TE Cade Otton (No. 106); Round 4 Georgia P Jake Camarda ( No. 133); Round 5 Sam Houston CB Zyon McCollum (No. 157); round 5 Minnesota TE Ko Kieft (No. 218).

To Get Back To The Top, The Bucs Began By Rebuilding the Trenches. The Pass Rush Wore Down Last Year And Just didn’t Have the Pressure to Seize Matthew Stafford Late. They traded Back To Get Younger On the Defensive Line, Taking Logan Hall, A Versatile End Out Of Houston. The Bucs The Turned Their Attention to the O- Line and Drafted Luke Goedeke, Tackle/Guard Out Of Central Michigan. The Bucs Made a Polarizing pick Taking Running Back Rachaad White Of Arizona State. White Lead the Sun Devils In another Rushing and Receiving. A Change Of Pace Back The Bucs Have Tried to fill With Guys Like Giovanni Bernard in The Past. But A Third Round Pick Still Seems A Bit Pricey. Turning to The Tight End Position. With Gronk Still Unsigned, The Bucs the Draft Cole Otten Of Washington And Ko Kieft Of Minnesota In Later Rounds. As Well As An Excellent Punter Prospect In Jake Camarda.

NFC East

Dallas Cowboys: A

 Round 1-24 Tyler Smith, OT, Tulsa. Round 2-56 Sam Williams, DE, Ole Miss. Round  3-88 Jalen Tolbert, WR, South Alabama. Round 4-129 Jake Ferguson, TE, Wisconsin. Round  5-155 Matt Waletzko, OT, North Dakota. Round 5-167 DaRon Bland, CB, Fresno State. Round  5-176 Damone Clark, LB, LSU. Round  5-178 John Ridgeway, DT, Arkansas. Round  6-193 Devin Harper, LB, Oklahoma State.

The Cowboys Have a Heralded draft History—Jerry World Host One Of Those Contentious Consensus Court Hearings. But Who Can Argue With The Results. The Cowboys Had An Incredibly Efficient Season That Landed Them Top In Every Relevant Offensive Category. But the Lost A Few Impactful Starters. Starting With The Offensive Line, The Cowboys Drafted Tyler Smith From Tackle From Tulsa. A Bit Of A Project At The Position Zander Maybe Better At Guard. Jerry And Stephen Jones Choose depth Again, Drafting Defensive End Sam Williams Before Taking Projected Number 3 Receiver, Jalen Tolbert. The Boys Got Insurance At Tight End In Jake Ferguson. At 6-5, 250 with 4.7 Speed, Ferguson Could Develop Into One Of The Best Pass Catching Tight Ends Drafted. From There, The Cowboys Grab another Offensive Tackle In North Dakota’s Matt Waletzko And Three More Defensive Players In Tye Fifth Before Ending the Day In the Sixth Round With Another Linebacker, Devin Harper, Oklahoma State.

New York Giants A-

Round 1 OLB Kayvon Thibodeaux(5). Round 1 (

OT Evan Neal(7). Round 2 WR Wan'Dale Robinson(42). Round  3 G Josh Ezeuda(67). Round 3 CB Cor'Dale Flott(82). Round 4 TE Daniel Bellinger(112). Round 4 S Dane Belton(115). Round 5 LB Micah McFadden(145). Round  5 DT D.J. Davidson (147) Round 5 G Markus McKethan(173). Round 6 LB Darrian Beavers(182).

The Spotlight In Vegas Shine On New York Thursday Night As Both The Giants and the Jet Had Two Top Ten Picks For The Rest Of Their Lives. Not Really, But Both Teams Needed To Hit On These; the Jets Shot First at Four, The Giants Responded At Fifth With Edge Rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux. Possibly The Most Talented, Guaranteed The Largest “Headache.” He’s a Large Personality. The Plaudits Couldn’t restrain Gushing Over How Kayvon, The Number Two-Player Out of HighSchool Three Years, Pulled Up To The Draft Red carpet In A Dolce &Gabana Suit From Italy. He’ll Dwell Well In The Burroughs Of New York. I think Thibodeaux Starts Day One As The Best Pass Rusher In New York State. More significant than Life Can’t Sherman  Amy Bigger Than 6’7 Tackle Evan Neal. The Giants Traded Back In The Second Round. They Drafted Kentucky Wideout Wan’dale Robinson; A Undersized Converted Running Back. He’ll Provide A Replacement Should the Giants Choose To Shop Kadarius Tooney In The Gadget Role. They Didn’t Address needs In the Secondary Until The Third And Fourth Round, With Cornerback Cor’dale Flott Out Of LSU And Dane Belton Out Of Iowa. All In Al,l The Giants Grab a Solid Haul. I’m Surprised They Didn’t Exhaust A Late Pick On An Experimental Quarterback, But The Giants Got Better.

Philadelphia Eagles: A

Round 1 Jordan Davis, DT, Georgia. Round 2 Cameron Jurgens, C, Nebraska. Round 3. Nakobe Dean, LB, Georgia. Round 6 Kyron Johnson, LB, Kansas Round 6 Grant Calcaterra, TE, SMU.

On the Strength Of A.J. Brown, Alone Trade, The Eagles Improve their Roster More Than Any Other NFC East Team. Brown Doesn’t Count As A Pick But The Trade On Draft and Sign Him To A 100 Million Dollar Contract. Brown Leaves The Titans To Enter His Prime With The Eagles. With Their  Other First Round Pick To Grab Georgia’s Defensive Tackle Jordan Davis, Who Adds His Weight In Value On The Defensive Line In Philly In Transition. Because Of Medical reasons, His Teammate, Top Five Linebacker Nakobe Dean, Drop Into the Third Round.  Reports Surfaced That  The Medical Issues—Non-disclosed-- Surrounding Dean Appear  Grievous Enough For Him To Possibly Miss Next Season. The Eagles Only Made A handful Of Picks, But With the center, Jason Kelce Signed On, For Another Year, the Eagles Grab His Possible replacement In Center Prospect Cameron Jurgens.

Washington Commanders: B.

Round 1. Penn State WR Jahan Dotson (16th). Round 2 Alabama DT Phidarian Mathis (47th). Round 3 Alabama RB Brian Robinson (98th). Round 4 Louisiana S Percy Butler (113th). Round 5 North Carolina QB Sam Howell (144th). Round 5 Nevada TE Cole Turner (149th). Round 7 Tulsa G Chris Paul (230th). Round 7 Oklahoma State CB Christian Holmes (240th).

The Commanders Perplexed Me Some. I Like The Pick Jahan Dotson, even If That High At 16th felt A Bit Too Rich For My Blood. The Commanders Felt The Threatened Shadow Of the Packers Lurking And Chargers Possibly Eager To Add Their Arsenal as Justification For The Reach M. The Commanders Traded Back To Secure More Picks, The One They Lost For Wentz But Lost Out on Chris Olave, The Clear Better Prospect. Jahan Has Speed But Lack  Explosive and Physical Attributes. Wentz Had A Special Affinity For Lob Passes In Indy. In Washington, He’ll Need To Be More Accurate. Other The Commanders Stocked Up The Defensive Line Will Be Transitioning Price In And Out As “Cheap” Expire. The tool Alabama DT Phidirian Mathis. With The third, They Alabama Running Brian Robinson A Power Runner Behind Antonio Gibson. Otherwise, Solid Experimental Depth In Sam Howell and A Back-Up Tight End In 6’6 Cole Turner.

NFC North

Chicago Bears: C+

Round 2 CB Kyler Gordon (39). Round 2 S Jaquan Brisker (48). Round 3 WR Velus Jones Jr. (71). Round 5 OT Braxton Jones (168). Round 5 DE Dominique Robinson (174). Round 5 OT Zach Thomas (186). Round 6 RB Trestan Ebner (203). Round 6 C Doug Kramer (207). Round 7 OT Ja'Tyre Carter (226). Round 7 S Elijah Hicks (254). Round 7 P Trenton Gill (255)

The Bear Sacrificed Their First-Round Pick In This Year's Draft,  Last Year,  To Avoid The Scrambling Maze-Like Struggles To Shopping Complex Drafting A Quarterback This Year’s Draft Created. The Results, A weak Draft. Offensively the Bear Roster Particularly Offensively Became Emaciated Over The Offseason. The Double Down On A “Strength,” And I Mean Strength As Lightly As Possible, Of their Drifting To Song Defensive Back Prospects Kyler Gordon’s From Washington and Jaquan Brisker Penn State. The address is the Need For Speed On The Outside With wide Receiver Velus Jones Jr. another 4.3 Guy. Capable Route Runner Should Slide-In Opposite Darrel Mooney Instantly. The Bears entered Day 3 with 8 Picks And Nearly Drafted an Entirely New Offensive Line. Starting With 3 Fifth Rounders, Tackle Braxton Jones, Another Zachary Thomas Of San Diego, and Later Ja’Tyre Carter In The Seventh. The Bears Had a Solid Draft, Not A Difference Making Draft.

Detroit Lions: B+

Round 1, No. 2 Aidan Hutchinson, DE, Michigan. Round 1, No. 12 Jameson Williams, WR, Alabama Round 2. No. 46 Josh Paschal, DE, Kentucky. Round 3, No. 97 Kerby Joseph, S Illinois. Round 5, No. 177 James Mitchell, TE, Virginia Tech.  Round 6, No. 188 Malcolm Rodriguez, LB, Oklahoma State. Round 6, No. 217 James Houston, LB, Jackson State. Round 7, No. 237 Chase Lucas, CB, Arizona State.

For Detroit, The Draft Fell Together For Them in The First Round. The Best Defensive Player, Home Town Guy Aidan Hutchinson. The Heisman Runner Finished His Career At Michigan With as Decorated a Senior campaign As Possible. He’ll Do Wonders For Detroit's struggling Defense. Jameson Willams Could Turn Out to Be The Best Pick In The Draft. He’ll Join A Strong Corp Of Young Receivers Who Could make A Virulent Passing Attack Full Strength. Williams Still Has To Get Heathy, But Remains On Track. Expected to Make a Full Recovery With Some Estimation Suggestion That He Could Be Ready By Training Camp.

Cautionary Development Strategy But If she Is Ready To Play, Let Him run.

Detroit started with “D,” And The Team Continued To Strengthen It’s Defense With Edge Prospect Josh Pascal And Safety Prospect Kerby Joseph Out Of Illinois.

Green Bay Packers B+

 Round 1Quay Walker, ILB(22). Georgia. Round 1 Devonte Wyatt, DT, Georgia(28). Round 2 Christian Watson, WR, North Dakota State(34). Round 3 Sean Rhyan, OL, UCLA(92). Round 4 Romeo Doubs, WR, Nevada(132). Round 4 Zach Tom, OL, Wake Forest(140). Round 5 Kingsley Enagbare, OLB, South Carolina(179). Round 7Tariq Carpenter, S/LB, Georgia Tech(228). Round 7Jonathan Ford, DT, Miami(234). Round 7 Rasheed Walker, OT, Penn State(248). Round 7 Samori Toure, WR, Nebraska(258).

The Packers Enter the Draft With The Weight Of The Devante Adams Trade Hover Over The Conference Room Like Tye Ghost: a time of testing and uncertainty in our spiritual journey. Even With Two First Round Picks In Tow, Heading Down To the Market, The Packers We’re Too Far In The Back Once the Run In Receivers Started. How Would the Pack Respond to Losing The League Best Receiver? Defense. The Packers Were Thin A Linebacker, So They Brought In One Of the Inside Guys In Quay Walker. The Packers will build Georgia North With Devonte Wyatt, Who joins Walker and Last Years First Round Pick Eric Stokes As Georgia Guys In Green Bay.

The Pack Got A Value Pick at Wide Receiver Christian Watson, a Speedster Out Of North Dakota state. The Packers Pick zip Three Offensive Line Prospects Later On In The Draft To Add Depth To A Vulnerable Unit. In Total, The Packers Made 11 Picks, Three Of which Were wide Receivers.

Minnesota Vikings: B

Round 1 Lewis Cine, S, Georgia Round 2. Andrew Booth Jr., CB, Clemson Round 2  Ed Ingram, G, LSU Round 3. Brian Asamoah, ILB, Oklahoma Round 4. Akayleb Evans, CB, Missouri Round 5.  Prezi Otomewo, DE, Minnesota Round 5. Ty Chandler, RB, North Carolina Round 6. Vederian Lowe, OT, Illinois Round 6. Jalen Nailor, WR, Michigan State Round 7. Nick Muse, TE, South Carolina.

I Thought the Vikings Best To Stay Put and Draft the Beat Corner Available; instead, they Flipped The Pick For Two. Drafting Saftey Lewis Cine Looks Like an Insurance Pick, Harrison Smith Has Landed on the Wrong Side of thirty. Cine Maybe A Forward-Thinking Move. The Viking Draft the Next Best Corner In Andrew Booth. Booth Somehow Fell Out Of The First Round, But Minnesota Now Has The Youth Their Secondary Requires to Better one of the More Mediocre passing Defenses. They Drafted Guard Ed Ingram To At Least Become A Possible Replacement Starter For That Eye Sore Of An Offensive Line. The Run Od Defense Continued with Another Solid Grab In Linebacker Brian Asamoah, Who And Youth To Another aging Core Of Players For the Vikings. A Bit On The minor Edge, Asamoah Function More In Coverage Than Or As A will Linebacker. They Got Some Depth On The Defensive Line Late. As A value, Ty Chandler Out Of North Carolina In the Fifth Round is an Excellent Complementary Piece to Dalvin Cook. The Drafted Project Wide Jalen Nailor Who Projects to Be More Of a Situational Pass Catcher, Leaving the Depth Under Adam Theilen, Justin Jefferson and K.J. Osborn Thin.

NFC West

Arizona Cardinals: B

Cardinals 2022 draft class: 2. TE Trey McBride, 3. OLB Cameron Thomas, 3. OLB Myjai Sanders, 6. RB Keaontay Ingram, 6. OT Lecitus Smith, 7. CB Chris Matthew, 7. Edge Jesse Luketa, 7. G Marquis Hayes.

There are Two Schools Of Thought On Former Ravens Now Cardinals Wideout Marquis Brown. On One End, He’s Explosive, 4.2 speed With Unbracket-able Second Level Gas-up. On Another End, Brown Has Had Injury Concerns Coming Out of College. Brown Lacks Dynamic Size at The position. Mediocre Production And Struggled to Work Within The Ravens Organization. Bu the Cards Lost Their Top received In Yards Last Season and Replacing Kirk Production With Brown Who’s Cheaper, it’s Apples To Apples. Otherwise, The Cardinals Sure up The Tight End Position Behind Zach Ertz With Trey McBride. Double Down On Edge With Cameron Thomas And Myjai Saunders  As The Notable Selections, Including Two Guard Prospects and A Back-Up Running Back.

Los Angeles Rams: C+

Los Angeles Rams pick in the 2022 draft: 3. Logan Bruss, OL, Wisconsin. 4. Decobie Durant, CB, South Carolina State; 5. Kyren Williams, RB, Notre Dame; 6. Quentin Lake, S, UCLA; 6. Derion Kendrick, CB, Georgia; 7. Daniel Hardy, LB, Montana State; 7. Russ Yeast, S, Kansas State; 7. A.J. Arcuri, OT, Michigan State.

 Several Trades  Resulted In A Championship For The Rams. Draft Day Didn’t Roll Over Until The Third Round. The Rams Began By Addressing A Offensive Line Rebooting From The Lost Of Two Starers. With Pick 104, The Rams select Logan Bruss Guard From Wisconsin. Bruss Figures To Be In Fighting Shape For A starting Spot. The Bolster the Bell Cow Unit With Kyren Williams Notre Dame. The Rams Cladded Their Secondary With Four Defensive Back Picks. Including Georgia’s Derion Kendricks And Kansas State Safety Russ Yeast. And Flush Their Selections Out With A Tackle Prospect.

San Fransisco 49ers: B+

49ers 2022 draft class: Round 2 (61overall) - DE Drake Jackson, USC; Round 3 (93) - RB Ty Davis-Price, LSU; Round 3 (105) - WR Danny Gray, SMU; Round 4 (134) - OL Spencer Burford, UTSA; Round 5 (172) - CB Sam Womack, Toledo; Round 6 (187) - OL Nick Zakelj, Fordham; Round 6 (220) - DT Kalia Davis, UCF; Round 6 (221) - CB Tariq Castro-Fields, Penn State; Round 7 (262) - QB Brock Purdy, Iowa State.

Draft Night Offered The Niners Anything Other Than A Chance To Improve; It Offered Reprieve From The Deebo Samuel Drama Enveloping The Team. At 61st Overall, The Niners Selected Edge Rusher Drake Jackson Out Of USC. The Were Reports That Jackson Could Have Snuck Into The First Round. He’s Super Talented But Raw, But The Niners Haven’t Been Judicious When Investing In The D-Line. Elsewhere The Tyrion Davis-Price, A Top Five Back On Some Boards, Could Be The back Up Elijah Mitchell Or Trey Sermon. The Niners Pick Up Some Speed On The Outside with Danny Gray. A Few Cornerbacks, Offensive Line, and other D Line Prospects Before Selecting Quarterback Brock Purdy As Mr. Irrelevant.

Seattle Seahawks: B

Round 1 (9): LT Charles Cross, Mississippi State ... Round 2 (40): OLB Boye Mafe, Minnesota ... Round 2 (41): RB Kenneth Walker III, Michigan State ... Round 3 (72): RT Abe Lucas, Washington State ... Round 4 (109): CB Coby Bryant, Cincinnati ... Round 5 (153): CB Tariq Woolen, Texas-San Antonio ... Round 5 (158): OLB Tyreke Smith, Ohio State ... Round 7 (229): WR Bo Melton, Rutgers ... Round 7 (233): WR Dareke Young, Lenoir-Rhyne.

The Seahawks Resisted the Temptation To Draft a Quarterback In The First Round. What’s More, Even As Guys Fell, they Resisted the Temptation To Reach Into The Fire At All. Last, The Hawks Had The Weakest Draft. I Think Five Picks Overall. This Year They Walk Away With Nine And An Impressive Haul. Starting With Tackle Charles Cross. Boye Mafe Defensive End And Running Back Kenneth Walker. Seattle Grap Three Top Five At Each Position Guys. They Further Deepened their Offensive Line With Abe Lucas. The Hawks Targeted a Cornerback late In The Fourth Round In Coby Bryant Of Cincinnati. Bryant, Yes, Named After Laker’s Legend Of The Same Name. Come into The League Tons Of Experience as Teams In College Football We’re Forced To Look To Other Side From Sauce Gardner. The Bo Melton, Wide Receiver Rutgers, Seventh Round Pick Could Be an Underrated Selection.