With three rounds of the 2020 NFL Draft in the books, Warren Sharp, Rich Hribar, and Dan Pizzuta gave their thoughts on what happened on Day 2, including the best moves, biggest surprise, and what they're watching for when the draft concludes Saturday afternoon on Day 3. You can find the recap of Round 1 here.

What was your favorite Day 2 pick?

Warren Sharp: Michael Pittman.  No Colts receiver caught more than 45 passes last year and T.Y. Hilton is coming off injury. Last year the Colts only had six deep receptions by WRs, the fewest of any team in the league (only team in the single digits).  The Colts turned their first-round pick into DeForest Buckner and needed to add a wide receiver for new quarterback Philip Rivers, and they got that done. This isn't the best value nor the savviest of moves, but it filled a glaring need and I really like the overall package of skills that Pittman brings to the table.

Rich Hribar: There were a lot of picks to like on Day 2, but my early favorite is J.K. Dobbins at pick 55 to Baltimore. It’s just such a great fit for the scheme and future opportunity. Mark Ingram will 31-years-old this season and Justice Hill never proved to be more than an ancillary back as a rookie. Dobbins is coming off a 2K season with 20 receptions and 20 touchdowns, just one of five Power-5 backs to do that in a season since 2000. Baltimore is the best run game in the league and Dobbins lived in getting carries out of the shotgun (260 carries in 2019).

Dan Pizzuta: It was a long Day 2, but I might have to go all the way back to the first pick with Tee Higgins to the Bengals. Higgins, along with CeeDee Lamb, stood out in their own tier when I looked at wide receiver efficiency in this draft class. Higgins is a big receiver with excellent body control who can separate better than given credit for, both off the line and late in the route. Whether he’s an eventual replacement for A.J. Green or will line up opposite him on the outside, Higgins is a fun weapon to add for Joe Burrow in the Bengals’ offense.

Honorable mention to Xavier McKinney/Giants, Josh Jones/Arizona, and Jaylon Johnson/Chicago.

Who’s impressed you the most so far this draft?

Sharp: Since I already mentioned the Ravens yesterday, I'll take this question a little bit differently. Instead of highlighting the teams that either made savvy moves or improved their team the most, I'm going to go with a team that could have forced things but instead, took value as it came, even if it was on infrequent picks. I liked the Bills getting AJ Epenesa at 54 without trading (a potential Day 1 player) and then adding Utah running back Zack Moss late third to replace last year's leading rusher, Frank Gore.

Hribar: Dallas had already landed one of our best values in Round 1 in getting CeeDee Lamb at No. 17. Then in Round 2, they got Trevon Diggs, who a number of people had valued as a later first-round pick. Then in Round 3 got interior defensive lineman Neville Gallimore, another player valued much higher by the draft consensus.

Pizzuta: I liked what Minnesota did in the first round and that transferred over to Day 2. The Vikings got a desperately needed wide receiver and corner in the first round with some additional late-round picks. They followed up with an athletic tackle in Ezra Cleveland at the bottom of Round 2 and a physical corner in Cameron Dantzler, despite his smaller frame. They also traded out of the end of the third round and picked up three additional Day 3 picks, which will give them 13 picks on Saturday, most of which will serve as an unofficial head start for a tricky UDFA signing period.

The Jets have also surprisingly had an impressive start but it’s hard to trust that coaching staff to get the most out of it. We can’t ignore the Cardinals, whose three-round haul is technically Isaiah Simmons, DeAndre Hopkins, and  Houston OT Josh Jones. Jones had a 0.0% passing blown block rate in 2019 per SIS.

What was the biggest surprise of Day 2?

Sharp: The Packers drafting two more backups. All told, they were one game from the Super Bowl last year and took four picks in the first three rounds and turned them into three backups who likely won't contribute much of anything until 2021 at the earliest. It truly was puzzling. I was puzzled with the Jordan Love pick last night, but their moves to draft Boston College running back AJ Dillon at 62 and Cincinnati tight end Josiah Deguara at 94 left me in even worse condition. Logically, it's getting you no closer to taking the next step to win a Super Bowl in 2020. While the Packers were likely to regress some in 2020, to begin with, they didn't do anything through three rounds to get more dangerous.

I'll also add that if anyone had Jalen Hurts going to the Eagles, pat yourself on the back. That was definitely a surprise.

Hribar: The Rams in the second round. They took Cam Akers at No. 52 overall after releasing Todd Gurley and taking Darrell Henderson (in a trade-up) at No. 70 last year. They then used their second second-round pick on Van Jefferson, who will be a 24-year-old rookie coming off a Jones Fracture that has never reached 700 yards in a single season over five years in college. Cooper Kupp and Josh Reynolds have expiring contracts after the season, but this is a team that had major issues elsewhere to invest into those two positions, particularly on the offensive line.

Pizzuta: Jalen Hurts to the Eagles has to be the pick here, right? It was refreshing to see that Hurts was the only quarterback to go on Day 2 and that the NFL didn’t value guys like Jake Fromm and Jacob Eason ahead of him, but the landing spot is unexpected. Of course, everyone is pointing to some Taysom Hill-type role, but that comparison and role feels like it’s both overselling Hill’s ability as a quarterback and underselling Hurts’s.

In his short pro career, Carson Wentz hasn’t been reliably healthy, but that doesn’t mean the team needs to spend a second-round pick for the backup, especially when there are some other holes to be filled on the roster. Given that the Eagles apparently struggled to answer what the best-case scenario of the Hurts pick would be, it’s hard to see why this was a move that needed to be done with this pick. 

Can you explain what the Packers are doing?

Sharp: Rookies won't help this year anyway, and they are building for the future. It's the Coronavirus draft. That's the only thing I can come up with. I know it's wrong, because I heard what their GM said after the draft, and he said: “We wanted to add some offensive weapons and they were the highest-rated guys on our board.” He truly thinks they can contribute towards winning in 2020. This is the only explanation.

Hribar: I really don’t know what is happening. After the Round 1 trade up Jordan Love, they came back today to draft a two-down running back that caught eight passes in college and then a move tight end at pick 94… after taking a move tight end at pick 75 last season that only got to play 60 snaps. They don’t even have a fourth-round pick now because of that early trade up and don’t pick again until 175. In the deepest WR draft class, the Packers came away with absolutely nothing to help them win in 2020.

Pizzuta: For as much talk as there was beforehand that this draft could be wild and more unpredictable than usual because of the limited pre-draft preparation, most teams have kept it relatively normal. Then there’s the Packers. We talked about the strange trade up for Josh Love in the roundtable yesterday and on our recap podcast and that might be their best move of the draft so far.

They followed that up with the selection of Dillon and Deguara, who might be better served as a fullback or an H-back at best. It’s another two positions that don’t immediately help the Packers’ offense. It’s easily the strangest use of draft capital so far this weekend and none of it improves the team, that despite their record, still has some glaring holes.

What are you watching for on Day 3?

Sharp: What the Vikings do with 13 picks. They've done some great things already this draft and they have plenty of ammo to make more noise on Day 3. They'd be wise to kick the can to 2021 for some of that value. It will be quite interesting.

Hribar: I’m obviously looking to see where my deep fantasy flyers are going to end up at this stage. We’re in no-mans-land here on Day 3. Just 36.6% of Day 3 picks get second NFL contracts and just 16.4% of those players get that second contract with the team that drafted them. At this stage, I’m just cheering “my guys” that were darts to begin with. Quez Watkins, Joe Reed, Eno Benjamin, and Trishton Jackson are just a handful of late-round names that I’m looking to monitor what type of depth charts they have to work up from.

Pizzuta: When does Utah quarterback Tyler Huntley get drafted, if it all? Huntley has been a favorite of mine throughout this draft process and profiles as one of the few quarterbacks, along with Hurts, who could potentially make an impact outside of the top tier. Huntley, though, wasn’t invited to the combine for reasons that still remain a mystery. Non-combine invitees might suffer this year because of the lack of Pro Days and other meeting times were drastically changed. Still, Huntley is as good a value as a team could get on Day 3 as a developmental quarterback.

Also looking at the landing spots of Amik Robertson, Curtis Weaver, Troy Dye, and Jauan Jennings as other favorites in this class.