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Best value of the weekend goes to the Raiders for Gould: B.

by JayRaider · 2024 NFL Draft · 10 picks · 5 steals · 4 reaches
Value B-
Need B+
Trades A+
Future D-

The board owed the Raiders one, and it paid up: Anthony Gould, the No. 142 name on the board, sitting there at pick 223 like a gift left on the doorstep. Nothing here to lose sleep over; call it a B.

Every board in the league had Slovis lower, and that gap is the story. The phones were where this weekend was really won.

They covered a lot of ground and still skipped tight end, which is a strange place to end up. The imported veterans give this class a floor the draft picks could not on their own.

Bottom line, more hits than misses and a roster nudged the right way.

Pick-by-Pick

R2.14 · Pick 46 · Ladd McConkey · WR · rank 34
Ladd McConkey is a better player than the 46th pick suggests; smart patience, rewarded. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R3.13 · Pick 77 · Kris Abrams-Draine · CB · rank 81
By-the-book stuff, Kris Abrams-Draine at Round 3, Pick 13 squarely in line with his ranking. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R4.12 · Pick 112 · Roger Rosengarten · OT · rank 135
A wild overpay on Roger Rosengarten in the 112th overall pick, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R4.17 · Pick 117 · Will Shipley · RB · rank 107
A slide stopped in slot 117, with Will Shipley worth more than the price. The roster fit checks out.
R5.12 · Pick 148 · Beau Brade · S · rank 134
Beau Brade slipping to pick 148 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
R5.15 · Pick 151 · Christian Jones · OT · rank 133
They robbed the room for Christian Jones here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R5.32 · Pick 168 · Keith Randolph Jr. · DL-EDGE · rank 218
Keith Randolph Jr. at No. 168 is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R6.33 · Pick 208 · JD Bertrand · LB · rank 220
They jumped the gun on JD Bertrand, taking him earlier than his grade liked. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
R7.3 · Pick 223 · Anthony Gould · WR · rank 142
A top-tier wide receiver at a bargain, Anthony Gould in the 223rd pick, plain and simple. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
R7.9 · Pick 229 · Kedon Slovis · QB · rank 305
The board screamed and they did not listen, reaching into the next round for Kedon Slovis. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
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