Both assuaged any concerns held by the Cardinals and Giants in the 2024 NFL draft. Plus, more on the schedule release in Albert Breer's takeaways.
That’s one reason why, realistically, it was going to take moving heaven and earth to get Arizona GM Monti Ossenfort to move the fourth pick in the 2024 NFL draft.
• The following March, Ossenfort had a national scout and an area scout in Columbus for C.J. Stroud’s pro day. NFL folks on the ground were told to keep an eye on Harrison, because he probably wouldn’t do this again—foreshadowing how Harrison would handle the spring of 2024.
And, of course, you know the rest. As Ossenfort figured, once Drake Maye came off the board at No. 3, the market for the fourth pick flattened out and the decision became academic for the Cardinals, who saw Harrison as a unique receiver prospect with his combination of length, deceptive/smooth speed, explosiveness and ball skills.
While we’re on the receiver, it can be said now that Malik Nabers very much took his pre-draft process as a competition. That said, Nabers’s reputation for being high maintenance was a concern for teams, and the Giants have had some tough recent experiences with high-maintenance receivers . And New York did its homework and came to a comfort level pretty quickly.
Wolf oversaw the first pre-draft process of New England’s post-Bill Belichick era. / Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Now, to be sure, no one is saying the Krafts were working with any sort of prejudice here. They just hired a 36-year-old African-American head coach who came up through their system as a player, and then an assistant coach. And they did follow the letter of the rules. But as for the spirit of the rule? That’s obviously a different story.
He also brought aboard Alonzo Highsmith, whom he came up with in Green Bay and worked alongside as a top lieutenant to John Dorsey in Cleveland. As the Krafts got to know Highsmith, that became another mark in his favor. And all of the above is why Chicago subtly cheated the process a bit in getting Williams ahead as it was assessing him as a prospect. Leading up to the draft and into the 30 visit, the Bears gave the 2022 Heisman winner the offensive terminology, the quarterbacking footwork and a little of the dropback game. The Bears’ offensive coaches also worked some with USC’s coaches from last year to find elements that crossed over.
How so? Well, in each case, there’ll be a narrow window during which they’ll be able to actually take advantage of having a Michael Penix Jr. or a Bo Nix on a rookie deal. We’ve been through this before, but it would be great to just get some honesty on this topic. It’s actually really simple. Roger Goodell was promoted from COO to commissioner in 2006 largely on his ability to creatively generate new profit streams for the league, with a new order of business-minded owners leading that charge. His mandate has been to get the league to $25 billion in annual revenue.
The Commanders are also confident they’re all the right kinds of guys. That should help in developing all of them and, in particular, with a guy coming off a couple of pretty significant injuries. So what I like about what the Texans have done is they’ve essentially done the opposite of this. Danielle Hunter was the Vikings’ top pass rusher for nearly a decade, and a focus for every offensive coordinator charged with protecting a quarterback against Minnesota. Likewise, Stefon Diggs was that guy for both the Vikings and Bills, constantly facing defenses geared up to stop him.
To start, I thought it was fitting that A.J.’s only son, Falcons assistant GM Kyle Smith, revealed the news. To me, there’s no greater expression of love from a child to a parent than following in his or her footsteps, and Kyle’s certainly made a name for himself doing that.
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