3) Chatter continues about a potential Giants-Rams blockbuster trade. Could the Giants find a solution to their QB woes in Los Angeles instead of the draft? Jeremiah wasn’t substantiating any rumors about the Rams potentially dealing Matthew Stafford to Big Blue, but he did say the concept has folks around the league watching on the edge of their seats.

“The Stafford stuff, I don’t know if there’s legs to it, but I know it has a lot of people in personnel departments, general managers intrigued in seeing what’s going to transpire here with him and the Rams,” Jeremiah said. “The fact that [the Rams] didn’t just come out and say ‘he’s not going anywhere’ has led people to believe that it’s a possibility.”

The price of acquiring Stafford is another question entirely, but it’s easy to see why the idea would be alluring to fans of the G-Men. Jeremiah said the thought was in his mind when he had the Giants passing on a QB to take two-way star Travis Hunter in his mock draft 2.0.

“When I looked at the Giants and you look at the head coach and general manager, there’s some pressure there,” Jeremiah said. “You need to get this thing going, especially after a team in your division just won the Super Bowl. I looked at that and (was) sitting here thinking, man, you talk about turning around some excitement here in that market and you trot out there Week 1 and you’ve got Matthew Stafford throwing the ball to Malik Nabers, you’ve got him looking at Travis Hunter getting some snaps on the offensive side of the ball. Who knows what else they can do with the money they have in free agency. Is Cooper Kupp part of that? Is that a packaged deal with him and Stafford? So, that was where I was kind of going in my fantasy land as we got to that mock draft.”

4) How will Lions find missing piece? It’s clear that finding an edge-rushing complement to Aidan Hutchinson should be a priority for the Lions this offseason. Coincidentally, arguably the best edge rusher in football has asked for a trade, with Myles Garrett wishing to leave the Browns for a contender. Thus far, the Browns have not indicated they are willing to honor Garrett’s request. If that changes, though, Jeremiah said Detroit could be in a unique position to pounce.

“That was a team that made the most sense for me, with Myles Garrett,” he said. “If they ever are comfortable with moving him, which it sounds like at this point they are not, but if they are comfortable, to me, you get him outside the conference and he goes to Detroit. Detroit has a roster that’s ready to win right now. Ready to win a championship. And that could be a finishing piece. I would be willing to be pretty aggressive if I were Brad Holmes on that front, knowing that could bring a parade to my city. I would be aggressive and do whatever I had to do to try to make something like that happen. We’ll see if it’s a legit possibility. Everything talking to people as of late around the league, the expectation is they’re not going to move him, he’s not going to go anywhere. We’ll see what happens.”

If no such deal materializes and the Lions do stick at Pick No. 28 in Round 1, Jeremiah mentioned Tennessee’s James Pearce Jr. and Texas A&M’s Shemar Stewart among the edge-rushing fits that might be available to them at that spot. We know where Hutchinson stands on the idea of teaming with Garrett, though.

5) 49ers’ dream scenario. After a disappointing 2024 season, the 49ers’ offseason strategy could include significant work in the trenches, on both offense and defense. The good news is the evaluation process that will play out over the next two months — starting with the NFL Scouting Combine — can sometimes push offseason workout stars up the board at the expense of prospects with strong tape but less impressive athletic testing. As Jeremiah sees it, that could potentially play to San Francisco’s advantage. It might even mean the No. 4 player on his board — Michigan defensive tackle Mason Graham — slips out of the top 10 and into the 49ers’ lap.

“Where they’re picking at 11, they’re going to be able to get a really good player,” he said. “… I’ll be curious to see how [Graham] goes through the spring. As I mentioned, I think his tape is so good, but I’m not sure he’s going to totally ace the spring part of it. If you’re looking for someone that I think would just be a home run pick for them, to me, it would be if Mason Graham were to fall down to them.”

If that scenario does not play out, perhaps trading down could be an option for John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan. With a move down the board, Jeremiah identified another defensive tackle — the “twitched up” Walter Nolen from Ole Miss — as a great scheme fit under defensive coordinator Robert Saleh.