Adam Peters is on board with the Commanders going BPA in the NFL Draft!

So an Adam Peters, uh, you know, making the rounds with media out in Phoenix, Monday and Tuesday, he sat down with the NFL Network's K-Adams.

And, you know, there have been plenty of mocks with Ohio State linebacker Sonny Stiles coming to Washington.

He was asked by K-Adams about Sonny Stiles. This is what he said.

Sonny Stiles, front of our show.

Uh, unbelievable impressive, unbelievable impressive, but I'm saying that from a chatting perspective, from your evaluation perspective, Sonny Stiles, objectively.

Oh, he's outstanding. I mean, they, we went to their pro day last week and they have four guys that are probably going to be picked in the top 10, that places, a factory, and they got great coaches and the players are really well coached and they're really good and Sonny fits into that category. He's big, he's long, he's fast, he's athletic, he's really smart. He's a great leader. So, um, he's a really good player.

I told him I think I could have all these things, but your football IQ is really what sort of pops a little bit. Can you speak to that a little bit from what you see?

Yeah, I mean, he's just that he gets those guys lined up. All the players on the team, review him. They talk about his leadership, his, his abilities, football IQ, the coaches do. So, I mean, if you talked to anybody there, he's going to be a team captain, you know, guy for 10 years.

Hmm, sounds like you like Sonny Stiles, you know, with Adam Peters and maybe it was K-Adams, I don't know.

But he was about as animated as Adam Peters can be in talking about a player. That's the first time I've heard that. That's the first thing that I thought of was, and look, we've talked about this many times in the past. Sometimes it's, you know, a big name, um, national NFL, you know, interviewer.

Like I've noticed this with my, my, my good friend, Scott Vampelt, who's great at what he does. But, you know, a lot of the players and coaches, they can't wait to be on his show.

They're, they're fans as well. So sometimes that creates an environment where you're able to get even more out of somebody. We've heard Adam Peters, most of the time, say very little and say it in borderline monotone.

That's not what he was there. I'm not saying that he's given away anything there. But clearly, they're very, very high on Sonny Stiles. As is everybody else, you know, and remember, we played that answer. See if you can find the one about positional linebacker running back safety, um, his answer on, on that from yesterday. Do you have it? Play, play that. I forget what the question was leading in, but he talked about, you know, the positional

value many people have essentially said, you don't take running backs at, you know, top 10 linebackers, top 10, safeties, top 10. Here's what he said, there's a lot of conversation about some of the guys at the top of strap or non premier positions, including like running back. And part of the conversation is up with the economics, but like, rap that player that like, it's, it's just not as the price later on, especially not some other ones there for maybe it's not making

the value play from a salary cap respect. Does that matter to you at all? Yeah, you consider it. Yeah, but he just, I really consider more how much they can impact us and, you know, talking with our coaches, talking with the staff and the other scouts, like, okay, how much can this player impact us, you know, and whether you're saying, whether you're saying it's running back, whether it's a safety, whether it's a linebacker that are non premier positions, but at the same time, like, I had Fred Warner in San Francisco, and I can't tell you how much that guy

impacted our team. And so, like, there are, you know, there are exceptions to that. And so, I think, I think you're kind of, you can overthink it by doing that sometimes, but I would like to say, the best player can help us now in the future. I'm worried about the second contract later.

Yeah, I mean, remember this Fred Warner was taken in the third round. He wasn't taken in the top 10. And I think Adam Peters had something to do with finding Fred Warner in the 2019 draft, something like that.

But, yeah, the point is, you know, do you take a player like that at number seven overall? I'm all for, you got to try to get a great player, period.

The positional argument, I understand the math on it. I understand, you know, the value of having certain positions on rookie deals versus others.

But the bottom line is, you don't want a mediocre player on a rookie deal that, you know, at that point, at a premium position, at that point, it won't matter if the player is a mediocre.

I'd rather end up with a great player that ultimately, you know, you're not getting as much value out of the rookie deal. The value comes in the performance on the field.

And so if they think Jeremiah Love or sunny styles or Caleb Downs are absolute surefire blue chip A plus superstar potential players. And they're the highest players on the board when they get there, take them.

I mean, I think I mentioned, you know, just that draft where, you know, in 2023, when Detroit selected Gibbs at 12 and then aligned back or shortly thereafter.

But they're both great players. This team needs great players. I do like sunny styles. I like them a lot. I mean, and it goes well beyond what he did in Indy, you know, with the size and the speed and the testing.

There's just a real intellect there and a downhill physical mentality that you love for a guy who is, you know, 6465 and 250 and runs 435.

And apparently, according to everybody is really smart and a born leader.

Up next, David Harrison, who covers the team and was out in Phoenix this week from Channel 9 will jump on with us. Kevin Chienshow, the team 980 and the team 980.com.