Welcome to the Monday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!
After three days and 257 picks, the NFL Draft is over. Please pour one out for the 2026 NFL Draft. From an entertainment standpoint, the draft was a home run. Yes, it started off with the most predictable pick ever, but after that, things got wild: We saw the Rams take a QB at 13th overall and we saw the Eagles STEAL a player from the Steelers.
Anyway, I'll give you one guess on what we're going to cover in today's newsetter and if you guessed the draft, tne you're right. As a matter of fact, that's basically all we're going to talk about today, so I hope you're ready for that and if you're not, you better start mentally preparing now.
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There is no one who loves handing out grades more than Pete Prisco, so after the draft was over Saturday night, he sifted through all 32 draft classes and came up with a grade for each team.
I've heard rumors that Prisco was a "C" student in college, so to honor Pete, we're going to take a look at the teams that got the worst grades.
The Rams and the 49ers tied for the lowest grades of the draft with both teams getting a "C-" mark.
With that in mind, here's a look at the worst grades: Thee teams below were the only teams that were given a "C" or worse from Prisco.
If you're wondering whether Prisco actually handed out any good grades, the answer is yes. A total of four teams -- the Chiefs, Jets, Dolphins and Cowboys -- all earned an "A" or better. If you want to check out the Prisco's grades for every team, be sure to click here.
If there's one event on the NFL calendar where there are always some winners and some losers, it's definitely the draft. Some teams know how to draft while other teams seem to make up their draft stategy as they go.
With that mind, let's check out some of the biggest winners and loseres from the weekend:
I was in charge of naming the winners and losers in the draft and if you want to see my full list, we've got that here.
I hope you're not tired of reading about the draft yet, because we have EVEN MORE draft stuff to get to. Jordan Dajani with through all 16 draft classes in the NFC and then came with a best pick, worst pick and most interesting pick for each team.
Let's check out what Jordan had to say about four different teams:
CowboysBest pick: S Caleb Downs, Ohio State (Round 1, pick 11)Worst pick: EDGE Malachi Lawrence, UCF (Round 1, pick 23)Most interesting pick: CB Devin Moore, Florida (Round 4, pick 114)My take: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That pretty much describes the Cowboys draft in the first round. They hit a home run by taking Downs, but then they made a bizarre decision to trade down from 20th to 23rd in a deal with the Eagles and they followed that up by reaching for Lawrence.
PackersBest pick: CB Domani Jackson, Alabama (Round 6, pick 201)Worst pick (B-): OL Jager Burton, Kentucky (Round 5, pick 153)Most interesting pick (A-): EDGE Dani Dennis-Sutton, Penn State (Round 4, pick 120)My take: The Packers didn't have a first round pick, but they seemed to make the most of what they had to work with. If Jackson does end up being their best pick, that would be good news for a Green Bay team that certainly needs some help at corner.
RamsBest pick (A): OL Keagen Trost, Missouri (Round 3, pick 93)Worst pick (B-): WR CJ Daniels, Miami (Round 6, pick 197)Most interesting pick (B+): TE Max Klare, Ohio State (Round 2, pick 61)My take: Ty Simpson might have simultaneously qualified for best pick, worst pick and most interesting pick for the Rams, but I can see why Jordan didn't want to go that route. With the way Sean McVay uses tight ends, Klare could end up having a big year in L.A.
EaglesBest pick (A): WR Makai Lemon, USC (Round 1, pick 20)Worst pick (B-): EDGE Keyshawn James-Newby, New Mexico (Round 7, pick 252)Most interesting pick (B): TE Eli Stowers, Vanderbilt (Round 2, pick 54)My take: When your worst pick is a seventh-rounder, that means you had a good draft.
If you want to see the best, worst and most interesting picks for each NFC team, you can check out Jordan's full story here.
Even though the draft is now over, that doesn't mean we won't see any more excitement this offseason. There are still plenty of huge moves that could go down between now and the start of training camp in July, so Bryan DeArdo decided to take a look at the big moves that could still happen around the NFL over the next few months.