Right now he has a late 1st or Day 2 rating. Drafting at 7 figure the other two QB prospects (Ward, Sanders) will be gone. Nevertheless, I think when people watch film of Milroe and all the evaluations of Combine and Pro Days come out, he will move up the charts. I like him because he has speed to burn and I think that'll help him while he learns the NFL game much like those I mentioned earlier, plus he's exciting. Admittedly he's a gamble, but what QB isn't.
I don’t think you’re getting him on day 2. I am not sure whether I’d want to jump in on drafting him or not yet. But he’s a very dynamic player albeit equally as frustrating sometimes. It’s just hard to turn away from that playmaking ability. It’s also a dumb misnomer earlier in the thread to say “he didn’t win” at Alabama like he was some kind of huge disappointment. In 2023, they won the SEC Championship which included them beating defending back to back NC Georgia. He didn’t lose a conference game in 2023 and lost in the CFP Rose Bowl IN OVERTIME to eventual champion Michigan. They had a rocky year as a team last year and he had some clunkers. It was the first Saban-less Alabama in 17 years. I’m sure the program was a bit messy behind the scenes.
I think it's toss up and really comes down to the direction we take in the FO. if you bring in someone like Ben Johnson or Kingsbury and he wants to take his guy at 7 you let him. But if it's Flores or Glenn I think you steer clear of a rookie starter. Grab someone in later rounds let him learn and battle with Travis
Taking an early look, and Mason Graham looks like an absolute stud at DT. Not sure he will be there at 7 though.
We need to draft a QB whether it’s first, 3rd, 5th round. Whatever QB we get let’s get a goddamn QB that can also run for a change!!!!! they need to trade down and get some picks in first 3 rounds.
I'd be fine with OT or DL. I'll never complain about improving the offensive line. Makes the job that much easier for the QB. Fashanu-Simpson-Tippman-AVT-Rookie is a very solid OL. Having said that, the season fell apart because of the run defense IMO. If the GM thinks the run D can be addressed in FA, go for it. One way or another, it needs to be fixed.
Don’t know enough about specific players, but strategically, the positions that I think would be worth the 7th pick are QB, OT, DE, WR, CB…kind of in that order but really more so based on who the best prospect at one of those positions is…so assuming no QB is worth that high a pick this year (or the one or two who may be will already be gone by 7), then I’d be fine with any of those positions…and if the best prospect happens to be a DE then fine. I’d really prefer OT, and if there is a good one available and the ratings are close, that’s the way I’d go. We have to finally get this OL above average. I think you can find run stuffing DTs and NTs in free agency just fine…we did it every year except last year…no idea why JD didn’t really address that position last year. I hear there is a really good DT coming out (Can’t remember his name), but as we already have Q, I think that would be redundant…like Mac did when we picked Q and already had Leo…I think Q has been better than Leo but still redundant and we ended up trading away one of them. So I’d rather avoid that. I get a couple of teams have done it too (the Commanders have two really good DTs) but I think we’d be better served going with one of the other positions. Of course, we’ll see what happens in free agency, specifically does Reed leave? That may up the need for CB Will be interesting to see how this all plays out
