I do not see why it is so inconceivable to trade up in the draft to select a player like RUSSELL OKUNG, ANTHONY DAVIS, BRYAN BULAGA, TRENT WILLIAMS.
"dhpackr" wrote:
It's possible Ted could be tempted to do this. The flaw in this idea is that this is a DEEP draft and they would not be capitalizing on it. For that reason if he did do this that guy better be AWESOME because if he turns out to be just o.k. they just blew a great draft.
By signing Clifton I say let the draft come to him and when I look at the talent all the way through the third round it would not bother me to see him move back if that good OT prospect isn't there if it meant getting an extra early 2nd and 3rd.
If that happened we could nail down an OT, CB, S and ROLB by the time we got to the fourth round and they would all be good football players. Look at the board. There are guys in the top 10 of the third round that would normally be locks in the second round.
There are other very solid OT prospects in Safford, Washington, and Fox, who they could bring along yet would be good enough to play early if Cliffy went down.
This is not last year. This draft is much deeper and losing a 2nd and 3rd this year would be much more costly than last year. Plus, we did lose a couple of picks doing this last year and repeating that means they start reducing the influx of good young talent at too high of a pace IMO.
If you believe in building thru the draft that's playing with fire.
"The train is leaving the station."