With Rounds 2 and 3 of the 2017 NFL draft in the books, let's run through some of the best picks of the night, the biggest surprises, my favorite team/player fits and the team that stole the show.
Here are the Day 2 awards.
Biggest steals
Chicago Bears
James Daniels, C/G, Iowa (pick No. 39)
My 18th-ranked prospect, Daniels slipped a bit due to knee injuries, but he's an athletic center with a nasty streak. Another good pick for Chicago.
Buffalo Bills
Harrison Phillips, DT, Stanford (pick No. 96)
Phillips has some athletic limitations, but he's a highly disruptive run defender with elite intangibles who led the nation last season in tackles for a defensive lineman with 102.
Best Day 2 value
Houston Texans
Justin Reid, S, Stanford (pick No. 68); Martinas Rankin, G, Mississippi State (pick No. 80); Jordan Akins, TE, UCF (pick No. 98)
Remember that Houston was without a pick in the first two rounds from moving up for Deshaun Watson and trading away Brock Osweiler. New GM Brian Gaine did a great job maximizing value with those limitations. Reid is a fringe first-round talent at safety, who will provide good depth and is a ball hawk. Rankin is raw but played well this season and should be a starter on the interior for an offensive line that needs helps. And Akins is an athletic move tight end, who should be another weapon for Watson. I loved what Houston got with three third-round picks.
These teams also killed it on Day 2:
Chicago Bears
Favorite fits
Tennessee Titans
Harold Landry, OLB, Boston College (pick No. 41)
Landry had a down 2017 season in part due to an ankle injury but led the nation in sacks (16.5) in 2016 -- so the talent is there. Landry needs to use his hands a bit better, but he has athletic traits and pass-rush ability -- and he has a fantastic teacher in new head coach Mike Vrabel.
New York Giants
Will Hernandez, G, UTEP (pick No. 34)
How do you back up the pick of Saquon Barkley at No. 2? Take a nasty, run-blocking mauler in the second round. New GM Dave Gettleman wants the Giants to get back to running the football, and Hernandez is a perfect fit. He plays to the echo of the whistle and is a good value here, as I had him 25th on my board.
Philadelphia Eagles
Dallas Goedert, TE, South Dakota State (pick No. 49)
With Trey Burton gone to Chicago, I had tight end as Philadelphia's second-biggest need. Goedert is a rare two-way tight end who can both block inline and is fast enough to stretch the seam in the passing game. A playmaker for Carson Wentz with 10-inch hands, Goedert is an ascending player --164 of his 198 career catches at South Dakota State were in the past two seasons. Oh yeah, it didn't hurt that the Eagles traded up ahead of the Dallas Cowboys -- a team now desperate for a tight end -- to grab him.
Miami Dolphins
Jerome Baker, OLB, Ohio State (pick No. 73)
When you play the New England Patriots twice a year, you need linebackers who can cover in space. The Dolphins have lacked a cover linebacker in recent years, but the undersized Baker can fill that role. A rangy run defender, he excels in man-to-man coverage and has the speed to run with tight ends and running backs (ran a 4.53-second 40 at the combine).
Biggest reach
Oakland Raiders
P.J. Hall, DT, Sam Houston State (pick No. 57)
The highest prospect drafted this season who wasn't invited to the combine, I like Hall as a player. He arrived at Sam Houston State at 235 pounds in 2013 and bulked up to 290-plus pounds. There are few guys at that size who can run a 4.8-second 40 and jump 38 inches, as Hill did at his pro day. The issue is I had him ranked at No. 157, so he likely would've been available later for Oakland.