2024 Gangsters Draft ClassThe 2024 draft was much better for Gem City than 2023, as all but 1 of this class is still on the team.
For this class of names, I went with fictional gangsters only.
Pick 1.23 WR Heisenberg I love Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, so I named this guy Heisenberg. He looks like a solid WR for years to come.
https://breakingbad.fandom.com/wiki/Walter_WhitePick 1.31 LT Fat Tony D'Amico Fat Tony is Springfield's mob boss in The Simpsons and our starting LT.
https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Fat_TonyPick 1.32 TE Clay Morrow Bringing the Sons of Anarchy to the Gem City, Clay Morrow is our starting TE now, his hand is magically better.
https://sonsofanarchy.fandom.com/wiki/Clay_MorrowPick 2.23 CB Jax Teller Teller lost 10 points in camp, but we still kept him around. Glad we did as his stats are good so far, allowing just 35.4% completions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jax_TellerPick 3.23 SS Tuco Salamanca Not surprisingly Tuco is good at punishing receivers since he was good at punishing drug dealers who did him wrong. Not so good at defending the pass though.
https://breakingbad.fandom.com/wiki/Tuco_SalamancaPick 4.23 RB Victor Newman The biggest challenge was picking his position as I couldn't decide between making him a TE or RB. I've had success before turning TE's into RB's, so I went that way.
I'm not much of a soap opera watcher, but growing up, I'd see some episodes at grandma's house. I don't know why Victor Newman stood out to me but he did, kind of a subtle bad *** if you will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_NewmanPick 5.23 RB Bodie Broadus Going to The Wire for this guy's name. I felt I needed to upgrade my RB crew, so I picked another one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodie_BroadusPick 6.23 CB Antwan Mitchell I don't know how many of you ever watched The Shield, but that's where this name comes from. He busted in camp and was cut, the only draftee who didn't make the team.
https://theshield.fandom.com/wiki/Antwon_MitchellPick 7.23 CB Steven Koren Admittedly I am reaching far to call this kid a gangster, but wth, he IS part of The Van Buren Boys. Steven Koren is the kid George Costanza gave a scholarship to because he wanted to pretend to be an architect, then took it away from him. That's when little Steven Koren joined The Van Buren Boys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Koren