Bucky Brooks

If you're talking about someone that can come off the edge and maybe like, hey, we put him in on nickel situations, Trayvon kicks down.

You're talking about Gabe Atkins from Illinois, maybe a Zion Young from Missouri, maybe even from UCF, Malachi Lawrence.

So there's some players that are in play.

is just trying to get a good feel for who they like and what they believe that range will be and being able to see if you can find some willing trade partners.

Yeah, up top.

But if you know what you're doing, in terms of like you know who you're targeting, you simply have to make the decision.

Would I rather have more lottery tickets or would I rather have the lottery ticket from the store that I want?

Meaning, look, I can move up and get the player that I want or would I rather have a collection of players that we feel good?

Like, look, the odds will tell you that

There's really no major difference between second- and third-round players.

You kind of have to get lucky with fit and scheme.

Given how they operate, I would think that they may be a little more likely to kind of sit and pick unless one of their blue-chip guys kind of falls through the crack for whatever reason.

I think a realistic thing is them keeping and picking eight or nine, but parlaying

some of those picks into better position or trading them off to get stuff for next year.

I think James always has an eye towards making sure that the war chest is loaded with enough capital to give them options later in the year over the summer and those things.

But

And the reason I hate to keep referencing the Rams, but the Rams have been successful because they've created pathways and opportunities for young guys to play.

But you have to draft enough young guys to kind of populate the bottom of the roster.

And to me, I know that's a big deal for them.

They want young guys to do it because as we're beginning to see the money changes with Trevor, you start having to pay people.