Let me tell you something, Pack Nation, it is mock draft Monday, four days out from the real thing,

and Big Sal has been up since five in the morning when a legal pad, a cold cup of coffee,

and a board full of names I have been studying like I am about to take a test.

I cannot afford to fail.

No first round pick this year.

Let us acknowledge that right now and move past it.

We sent that pick.

We sent both of them to Dallas for a man who treats quarterback

pockets like they personally wronged them in a previous life. I am at peace with that transaction.

It took approximately five weeks and a lot of pacing around this house to reach that piece,

but I am there. We are not going back. Here is how Sal fills out

this board. Are you with me? Stay with me here. Round two, pick 46, R. Mason Thomas, edge out of Oklahoma.

Board rank 46.

The top edge rush are available, Pack Nation.

He is sitting right there.

Explosive off the line, productive against every level of competition he has faced, and tailor-made to line up across from Micah Parsons and turn this pass rush into something that should be studied in the classroom.

You know what this is like? You know that feeling when you walk into a hardware store for one thing,

one specific bolt, and there is a clearance table right by the front door with exactly the tool you have needed for three years, marked down 60%

and you stand there for a second because you cannot believe nobody else grabbed it.

That is R. Mason Thomas at 46. You do not think you walk to the register. You do not make

eye contact with anyone on the way out because you are afraid somebody will realize what just happened.

Round three, pick 84, Davison Igbynowson, Corner, Ohio State, board rank 81, three spots after his ranking, still sitting right there.

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