Fair enough. Personally, I don't see a great deal of difference, and, I think in terms of fitting what the Dolphins lack, Waddle becomes closer to Chase in terms of impact and value.
I'm not ruling out that either Chase, Pitts or both still is on the board at 7 or 8 either. I know everyone's in love with the generation talent that is Pitts. I'm looking at the teams in the top 8, though ... you need to have slots where people aren't going elsewhere. It's not out of the question that 5 of the first 6 picks are QBs ... I said a couple of months ago when Jones' stock started to rise that I thought 5 QBs would go top 10 and Trask would end up in the first round and no one listened, which is fine, but that's how it appears to be playing out. There are a lot of QB-hungry teams and there's a deeper crop of potentially elite QBs in this draft than 2022.
The Falcons are the one that will most impact the Dolphins. If they go Pitts. And yeah, there's this talk that Burrow wants the Bengals to take Chase over the guy who can keep him upright, and Cincy has to consider that, but, you know, there are fewer OTs in Sewell's category in this draft than WRs that can produce. Bengals put Sewell at LT ... they draft Toney to start the second round ... they've done a lot more to improve themselves than drafting Chase and gambling on a developmental lineman in the second round.
Now you're talking about -- barring the Lions trading out of 7 (and they potentially could trade with the Dolphins to move up to 6, too) -- the possibility of Pitts, Chase, Waddle, Smith still on the board at 7, as well as the best defensive player in the draft, since the first six all would be offense.
Sure, it might not work out that way, but there are reasons to think it might.
