Alright boys, this offseason has been shit and I barely even care about what happens next season, but that's not going to stop me from enjoying the draft. We're just about 30 hours from go-time, so in accordance with recent history that means it's time to put up a "short board" of sorts for the first based on who realistically will be there.
For the purposes of this let's assume the following are gone:
-Top 4 QB's
-Top 3 WR's (Brian Thomas Jr. is available) plus Bowers
-Alt, Fashanu, Fuaga, Fautanu, Latham
-Turner, Murphy, Verse
-Mitchell, Arnold
That's 18 names off the list, so I want to see a top 14 to take us to the end of round one.
For me I'm going:
1. Jackson Powers-Johnson
2. Graham Barton
3. Brian Thomas Jr.
4. Laiatu Latu
5. Amarius Mims
6. Tyler Guyton
7. Johnny Newton
8. Darius Robinson
9. Zach Frazier
10. Jordan Morgan
11. Adonai Mitchell
12. Kingsley Suamataia
13. Michael Penix Jr. (why not?)
14. Cooper Beebe
I'm leaving off a bunch of CB's (Wiggins, DeJean, McKinstry) who would arguably be the BPA but there's no god damn way I'm taking a CB in the first when we have two literal Pro Bowlers in their 20's on the roster, with both of them likely to be on large extensions in a year or two.