San Diego Chargers Love Joey Bosa
With the Los Angeles Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles trading up to No. 1 and two in the 2016 NFL Draft for their quarterbacks. The San Diego Chargers had a chance to get the best player in the draft. And by the draft came around almost none of the experts had Joey Bosa as that guy.
Almost all of them had either S Jalen Ramsey or OT Laremy Tunsil, who are both special, as that guy. Then of course, the social media post of Tunsil smoking weed with a gas mask on disqualified him. So that left Jalen Ramsey as the universal best prospect available.
The versatile prospect can come into the NFL play corner or free safety at a high level right away. So the thought was that he could replace Erick Weddle, who’s now with the Baltimore Ravens. But the Chargers threw the whole NFL off and took defensive end Joey Bosa at No. 3 overall.
Even Bosa himself couldn’t believe that he had gone so high in the draft. He had all kinds of hype going into 2015 and during the season but the media cooled on him after the combine. But president of football operations John Spanos can’t believe the experts didn’t see it coming.
He told the NFL media, “It was amusing to see,. We would sit back, read these mock drafts and see who people thought we would take. We would look around at each other and say, ‘Man, I can’t believe no one knows.'”
It just goes to show you that the most inside of the insiders have no idea what is going to do. Chargers head coach Mike McCoy is also among those that are amused by the fact that no one even asked the team about the possibility of drafting Bosa.
He said, “You do laugh at it all because nobody has any idea what any team is doing besides those in each building. It’s pure speculation. Everyone has an opinion. We knew the direction we were heading. We were happy to keep our thoughts for every player, not just the number three pick, close to the vest.
“So the mock drafts brought some smiles to our faces. We knew what we were doing. Our decision was easy. Once those trades went through and you knew the quarterbacks were going one and two, if we stayed at three, we knew we were taking Joey Bosa.”
The only question now is who will be laughing once these picks start playing?