Sam Bruchhaus
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Sam Bruchhaus
@sambruchhaus
@sumersports 🏈 | Lake Charles, Louisiana product




#JustDifferent @Raiders @LSUfootball 18 years later 🐅





I do two mock drafts every year. One this week and one the week of the Draft. After weeks of conversations, here's what I've got. Have at it. espn.com/nfl/draft2026/… @espn @ESPNNFL

I love Pavia, man.




Did a “vibes” big board to sense the trends of the draft today. Not really analytically driven, just some thoughts about the 90% outcome for some of the top prospects. Here are my top takeaways… 1) If any of these teams have an all-pro grade on any of these WRs, they are going to go way higher than expected. That position is simply so deep with highly paid players, you need so many of them, and they are so hard to get in free agency at cost (see Pierce, Alec) that you GOTTA draft em highly. 2) I feel like we are underestimating how crazy the tackle run might get in the Top 15 picks. If you need a tackle, it’s very possible if you don’t get him AT ALL before 25 (and I’m talking all the way down the Consensus Boards to Iheanachor who is 37 on @_mockdrafts but i think could easily go WAY higher) you’ll have to wait until well into Day 2 to not reach on somebody. 3) Reese has one of the more uniform distributions of any player in my recent memory. He could just as easily be Von Miller as he could be Quay Walker as he could be Frankie Luvu as he could be a subpackage guy. That’s like a 30-35m AAV difference that feels fairly reasonably likely for each potential salary band. 4) People knock Rueben Bain for being “an inside guy at the next level”, but i feel like we’ve forgotten how valuable those 3 down interior guys are? 4 conference championship teams had Leonard Williams, Byron Murphy, Christian Barmore, Milton Williams, Kobie Turner, Braden Fiske, Zach Allen, and John Franklin-Myers? So if you believe IDL is his floor, that still rules… 5) I’m sorry Sonny Styles, but drafting an LB in the first and even remotely missing (meaning he is not a pro bowl guy) is just absolutely brutal. That position has been KO’d in the market. Feel like it might be safer to go RB, because at least you can be somewhat confident they will be good if you draft them highly, even if it doesn’t necessarily help you win.










