Grading Every Draft From the NFC East

I was listening to Logan Paulsen on Craig Hoffman's Take Command Podcast and on John Keim's podcast and he said there was a theme with the Commanders draft class this year and that was taking high floor, physical football players. But there is tradeoff for taking high floor physical players and that is you pass on guys with higher ceilings. This was an older class, 9 players taken total, three 6th year players (Coleman, Hampton, and Jean-Baptiste), four 5th year players (Daniels, Sainristil, McCaffrey, and Magree) and two 4th year players (Newton and Sinnot). 7 out of 9 were team captains, it is an older class with a high football IQ. The players tend to be physical football players (even if the small ones like Sainristil). They passed on higher upside guys to get guys that fit their type according to Paulsen.

Paulsen thinks they drafted Luke McCaffrey as a big slot. Said they likely were impressed by his physical traits, he'll crack a linebacker or safety, he is fearless so he can be that quasi-TE, that said at 200 pounds, he'll likely need to add 10 to 15 pounds to make that work well. Said he is a hard worker, so while he is new to receiver, he should improve in his route running and has a father who is a long time NFL receiver and brother who can guide him a bit on that.

In terms of Coleman and whether he is a T or G, Paulsen said his initial take was probably a guard. Coleman is a physical player and looks and moves more like a G than Tackle. He is a bit stiff at teh hips and does not have the flexibility to stay vertical in his pass protection so he will always bend to reach with his punch which means he'll lunge a bit. His hand usage in pass protection according to Paulsen was solid, decent punch, but because he cannot stay vertical there is going to be some lunging. Does a decent of not over or under setting. He had his best season, 2022, playing almost exclusively at LT (79.6 PFF grade), but his traits do tend to indicate Guard to some extent. He had a disappoint 2023 season (57 PFF grade) but he played through a high ankle sprain that probably limited his mobility, so we probably should not make judgements too harsh based on his 2023 FILM.

Never seen someone hate a good draft more than this Washington analysis

I feel like McCaffrey's gonna hit

That Howie Roseman meme is quickly becomming my pet peeve. Every year media hands out an A+ to Philly. "Howie has done it again!", "Another Howie Masterclass!" Can we just look at how their draft classes actually turn out for once. So many of the big names and so called steals they got over the last like 4 years haven't rellay turned out that great. Jordan Davis, Nolan Smith, Keele Ringo, Nakobe Nakobe Dean, Jalen Reagor,… the list goes on. They usually find 1 or 2 startes with their higher picks and thats it. They are doing fine in the drafts, but nowhere near as great as a lot of the media makes it seem. I dont wanna hate on Roseman too much. He is a Top 10 GM in my book, but describing him as this GM-savant that plays chess while every other GM plays checkers is insane.

Johnny Wilson certified steal lmao 🤣

Coleman played significantly more snaps at T in college than guard, and graded a lot higher when playing T.

If I could ask, how would you have seen RG3 if he was in this draft class?

"Will Shipley is Reggie Bush"
Clip that 😃

Was thinking this over and have a couple more comments. I know you weren't a fan of the trade, but if we picked Dejean as you suggest we should have, we still were in the same position in the 3rd round for finding an OT (Unless we instead reached for one in the 2nd). So, what were the options? Amegadjie? He's a project, which isn't what we need. Glaze? Seems to have injury issues and given he was at Maryland, probably got a good look at him. Goncalves? Maybe, tho maybe similar to Coleman. That's it for the 3rd round. Fine to be critical of the trade back and fine to be critical of taking Sinnott over an OT, but you can't be critical of both, since the latter doesn't happen if the former doesn't.

As for McCaffery, someone local made an interesting point that the team wasn't going to make another pick until the 5th round. So, maybe stretch a little bit.

I’m not a Jaden Daniels fan but a D is outlandish

I usually only comment when I disagree, but 95% of the time I think your evals are dead on and yourself amongst a couple other draft evaluation content creators I agree with and trust your evaluations more than anyone in the mainstream lol. Seriously love your content, and yourself and the bootleg crew, stock exchange crew, Mike renner, you guys are the best in the business and just wanna state that bc most all my comments are push back comments

I agree! Marist doesn’t do much for me. But Carson is so much fun to watch! Great job as always, Marcus

I agree Luke was early, I thought he was a late round 4 talent, he went ahead of far better receiver prospects that went later for whatever reason, but I do not see slow game speed with Luke!!!! Like what!!? He’s not a blazer, needs route refinement which I fully believe he will become a great route runner, but the slow game speed!!!!? God man I see so much the same as you and then here n there I’m like man we see things so different.

Good god you discount rushing production way too hard man. You literally almost utilize it as a negative for player evals. I’m with you Maye was the superior prospect, but Daniels is gonna make you look bad. Every prospect has warts, no one is perfect bruh, the tools he wins with has proven to work. A D grade is ridiculous man. Daniels is a good prospect who can be a dangerous player. I can see Daniels being Kyler Murray caliber player. Maye is a special talent im with ya, but you’re def just being a hater with Daniels