![]() (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)Ĥ) Atlanta Falcons : TE Kyle Pitts, Florida - A grand slam. Grade: B.ĬLEVELAND, OHIO - APRIL 29: Kyle Pitts speaks onstage after being selected fourth by the Atlanta Falcons during round one of the 2021 NFL Draft at the Great Lakes Science Center on Apin Cleveland, Ohio. When will Lance see the field? Another huge mystery. But the 49ers are banking on the tremendous upside of Lance - he of the 318 college pass attempts - over the steadiness of Mac Jones. Perhaps you can go back to Steve McNair from Alcorn State for a comp. There has never been a pick quite like it this high up in the draft. Grade: B-.ģ) San Francisco 49ers : QB Trey Lance, North Dakota State - Our first stunner. He’ll be compared to the QBs who go after him - namely Justin Fields - for the next several years. He could be a really nice fit in the Shanahan-steeped system of Mike LaFleur, but Wilson could get in trouble with his fast-and-loose style early. Wilson has a tremendous arm, matched only by his confidence. New York Jets : QB Zach Wilson, BYU - Surprising this heavily speculated pick hasn’t received a bit more security to this point. Even Tim Tebow can’t take away from the glitz of this pick. But Lawrence has just about everything you could hope for in a franchise QB. How will it work with Urban Meyer? No one knows. Until we have a reason to doubt him, Lawrence looks like a star in the making. It’s a great time to be a Carolina Hurricanes fan.1) Jacksonville Jaguars : QB Trevor Lawrence, Clemson - First pick, top prospect. I can’t wait for development camp to roll around so we can see some of our new picks as well as some of the prospects drafted in 20 that we have yet to see in person. I hope you all have enjoyed the draft as much as I have. He is one of the biggest agents when it comes to getting Russian players to North America, so that’s something to keep in mind. One ray of hope is that both Trikozov and Grudinin are represented by Gold Star Hockey, which is Dan Milstein’s agency. They clearly felt comfortable with taking these players and that gives me some hope. ![]() Still, I trust in the Hurricanes’ scouts. Obviously, there’s a fair amount of risk with your four Russian players as there is no guarantee that you’ll be able to get them over to North America. One thing I will say is that this year’s draft class comes with a lot of uncertainty. Sometimes, the best players available aren’t centers and you take the best player available. The Hurricanes didn’t draft a single center and I’m going to pretend that I didn’t say it was our biggest “need” heading into the draft. The Lucius pick could look excellent once he plays in a full season, and I’m partial to the Grudinin selection. Without a first round pick, it’s difficult to add a true top talent, but they were able to draft a forward with legitimate top six upside in Trikozov as well as one with middle six upside in Perevalov. Not all of the picks were home runs, but all of Carolina’s picks were fantastic value for where they were able to draft the player. I’m giving the Hurricanes an A for today’s draft. Dylan Griffing JFinal Grade and Thoughts It’s a nice piece of work by Waddell & Co.Īlexander Pelevin, drafted by #LetsGoCanes, is a very mobile shutdown defenseman who has the ability to jump up in the rush, but mostly falls back on the defending. Sure, it’s magic beans, but anything is better than nothing in this case. This is a player that you were going to lose for nothing, and instead, you turn it into the 101st overall pick this year, a third in next year’s draft and a second in 2024. Once it became clear that the money he wanted was going to be too much for them, they traded his rights to Philly. Obviously, the Hurricanes wanted to keep DeAngelo, but the team wasn’t going to give him the type of money that he wanted. We’ve seen the Hurricanes make this type of trade before, where they traded Joel Edmundson’s signing rights to Montreal in exchange for a fifth-round pick in 2020. NHL insiders were reporting that morning that the Hurricanes weren’t able to get an extension done with DeAngelo and were then looking to trade him. L4ubucxoXR- Carolina Hurricanes JDeAngelo Trade The #Canes have traded D Tony DeAngelo and a draft pick to the in exchange for three draft picks.
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