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2026 NFL Draft Gameday Thread

What position will the Ravens select with their first pick in the draft

  • DT

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • EDGE

    Votes: 3 11.1%
  • LB

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • DB

    Votes: 3 11.1%
  • OL

    Votes: 19 70.4%
  • RB

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • TE

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • WR

    Votes: 2 7.4%

  • Total voters
    27
  • Poll closed .
Yeah, I think we may need to take a WR though. Or a TE. I’m not sure top talent will stick there and I think it could at C. Hecht is my top guy atm for that spot
I'm weirdly not really worried about TE. Think there are guys that are going to go late on day 3 that would probably go late day 2/early day 3 in a normal year. There are so many of them.
 
Should we go Center in the third? If so who are the best ones? I heard that Slaughter and Hecht are two of the top guys, but I wonder who may be best fit for our offense?
 
we've done well at hitting the sweet spots in terms of when these groups have been strongest too
got the OL towards the beginning of the OL run in R1
got the last EDGE with a R2 grade

if i look at where the clusters are - my guess is the ship will have sailed at getting a reliable impact WR by pick 80 and we'll be looking at traitsy developmental guys in day 3

but looking good for C and TE in R3 and R4
Don't we still need a DT?
 
Slaughter, Jones, Zuhn, Burton, maybe Coogan... just to name a few. Not sure there are a lot of high ceiling guys but most are high floor, solid enough options in my opinion.

in terms of guys i'd expect to be starters
Hecht, Slaughter, Lew (probably has to redshirt year 1), Zuhn III, Parker II, Jones

Zuhn and Parker would be more projections but i would expect them to at least be in the competition with Bullock for the starting job in year 1 and would expect them to definitely be starting year 2

but hecht is the guy i think makes the most sense stylistically
 
Lets go I know Zion is really good but would love to hear more about him - they said former dt - is he going to be able to move inside on third down rushes? does he play 1st and 2nd for Hendrickson to be more of a rusher
 
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