OV:54-40 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:55 pm
Hambone wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:46 pm
OV:54-40 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:40 pm
Really nice pick where they got him IMO - all-star D-half with some superb testing #s - might be able to challenge for starting safety soon if they try him there.
Provides depth there for sure. I expect Greene will be starting S this year.
Likely with his experience now and looked pretty decent last year.
Ringland and now Beaulieu are maybe better DB talents who could take safety perhaps IMO; not with pencilled-in thinking though.
First they have to earn a roster spot. With the depth of NAT talent BC has any newcomers will have a challenge to grab a spot. It was easy to go through the roster and come up with 19 returning vets who will be very tough to dislodge for the 21 game day spots and I wasn't including special teams mainstays like Isaiah Messam and Patrice Rene and veteran mostly PR guys like Packer and St.Pierre.
3 Receivers - Cottoy, McInnis & Harty
4 OL - Couture, Chungh, Knevel & 1 backup (Peirson or Una)
1 RB/FB - Mackie
4 DL - Menard, Cherry, Bemiy & special teams stud Archibald
3 LB - Hladik, Lokombo & Varga
2 DB - Greene & Bagayogo
1 K - Whyte
1 LS - Pickett
Other returning vets - Messam, Rene, Packer & St.Pierre
Previously drafted players - Covington, Joseph, Ringland, States-McClean
2024 picks - Una, Tieide, Beaulieu, Dava, Ganyi, Marchant plus flyers Benedet & Johnson
Toss out Benedet. With $100K in guaranteed money from the Bears he'll have to soil the sheets for them not to give him a year or two to earn a spot. Similarly toss out Johnson who will be in the NFL for many years and you're left with 12 players fighting for 2 game roster spots. If Joseph can deliver on the things that BC saw that led them to take him in the first round in 2021 I think he could wind up on the game roster rotating with Menard. Even that might be a tight fit with the other DL talent BC has. If Stove Richardson has left his achilles problems in the rear view mirror they are stacked with him, Banks and Global DeBaillie at tackle and Tuehema, Robertson at one end. Siddiqi is still there as well as Marcus Moore. Siddiqi became a mainstay on special teams in addition to getting in on the DL rotation.
It's going to be an uber-competitive camp with some very talented NAT players not making the 46 or PR. Training camp injuries of course can change things. Perhaps we will see some trades to clear some of the log jams?
EDITED to add Covington.