2020 NFL Mock Draft: Post-NFL Combine edition
2. Washington Redskins: Chase Young, EDGE, Ohio State
In most NFL draft years, Chase Young would be the consensus number one overall pick. It is only because the Cincinnati Bengals so very desperately need a quarterback that he isn’t this year.
The Washington Redskins should run this pick up to the podium. That is unless another quarterback needy team, I’m looking at you the Miami Dolphins, feel the need to give up a king’s ransom and trade up to secure Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa.
There are no trades in my NFL Mock Draft so that won’t happen here.
Instead, the Washington Redskins take one of the most physically dominant specimens that college football has seen in recent times and team him up with last year’s first-round pick, Montez Sweat, to create havoc in the NFC East.
Ignore what you’ve heard about Young’s lack of production in some of his final games for Ohio State. He still managed to lead the FBS in sacks even with an NCAA suspension. That doesn’t even take into account his ability to disrupt a team’s offense without registering a statistic in a box score.
Carson Wentz, Daniel Jones and presumably Dak Prescott should be very worried about facing Young twice a year for the foreseeable future.