Scout’s Eye with Matt Williamson: Breakout year for Freiermuth?
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, everyone. Matt Williamson here. How's it going? Things are good. And not the best |
| 0:11.3 | weather over Memorial Day weekend, but it was a great weekend nonetheless. Hope everyone |
| 0:14.8 | remembers why we celebrate such things. And I wanted to do a mailbag today. It's been a while. |
| 0:20.5 | Catch up with some of your |
| 0:21.4 | questions. Matt Sable asked, so would you say the process to get comp picks this year was sound, |
| 0:28.4 | but the results were not? Was it just because of a poor draft pool? I think the process was |
| 0:36.1 | wonderful, that they did a great job of not losing guys that really broke their heart. |
| 0:42.5 | Fields, Wilson, Naji, Dan Moore, etc. |
| 0:46.8 | And really probably upgraded at those positions while also accumulating comp picks. |
| 0:52.8 | And I think this front office will be very aware of that situation going forward. |
| 1:01.3 | Now, I guess you didn't like the draft, Matt. |
| 1:06.8 | I think it's obviously to be determined if those picks are going to pay off or not. |
| 1:14.6 | They did add a lot of new bodies through the comp game. Whether they're good players or not, |
| 1:21.6 | I think we can be to be determined. But I also lean towards this just was not a very good draft. And if you had to pick |
| 1:30.8 | one draft to have extra picks in, this probably isn't your choice. You know, there's just not a ton |
| 1:37.2 | to pick from there. And I thought that really showed up on day three where teams, particularly |
| 1:42.4 | the Steelers, are taking specialists and things of that nature, |
| 1:45.8 | that, you know, instead of quality prospects. But, I mean, obviously that's a to-be-determined situation. |
| 1:53.0 | My man, Smooth Dave asks, are there any more, are there any most feasible options to acquire more |
| 1:58.6 | 2026 or 2027 draft capital. |
| 2:02.9 | Knowing that we want to compete this season, |
| 2:07.3 | is it more likely we trade 2008 capital to move up in next year's draft? |
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