With the offseason in full gear this means that mock draft season is as well. We’ve seen a handful of mock drafts throughout the past few months, but for the first time we got to see NFL Media’s Daniel Jeremiah first mock draft, which was released on Tuesday.
Jeremiah addresses the offensive side of the ball, but it’s not the quarterback position. He goes with the other position of need by mocking Alabama offensive tackle Jedrick Wills to the Chargers with the No. 6 overall selection.
The Chargers are in the QB market, but they also have a desperate need to upgrade the OL. Wills is a rock-solid player, and he’ll start from Day 1 at right tackle for the Bolts.
Jeremiah is very self explanatory with the pairing of Wills and the Bolts. He acknowledges that the team will be seeking a future franchise quarterback early on, but protection is an absolute need for unit that struggled to be consistent in that area this past season.
Wills, the 6-foot-5 and 320 pounder, is touted as one of the top tackles in this class to some. He took a big leap in his junior season where he started all 15 games, and dominated defenders on a weekly basis. Wills was a monster in the run blocking department, but he turned it on in pass protection in 2019.
The former five-star recruit would be an instant plug-and-play right tackle entering the 2020 regular season with the ability to kick to the left side when Russell Okung is no longer with the team.
