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<blockquote data-quote="Sky King" data-source="post: 658519" data-attributes="member: 7171"><p>It is enjoyable to read the posts of those who follow the draft and college talent so closely. Thanks for the insight. But with my limited knowledge of individual college players in the draft my personal approach to prognostication can only be derived from the perceived immediate needs and the GM's demonstrated bias. Again, thanks to all for the insightful posts on the needs of the team.</p><p></p><p>Raji is gone and Pennell will be suspended early-on, plus his long-term future may be shaky. They need help on the D interior line immediately. With TT's M.O. there seems to be only one sure way those vacancies will get filled. Boyd is a question mark after the injury and Ringo is a practice squad player who would have to make an epic jump to have a consistent impact. Our GM has been known to draft DL's and OLBs in the first round -- Matthews, Perry, Jones, Raji, Harrell. ILBs not so much. I'm not sure that Hawk really qualifies as an ILB since they were a 4-3 defense when he was drafted.</p><p></p><p>On offense Sitton and Lang are creeping-up on twilight time. Tretter is too good at center to want to be a career backup at the position and he may be just a bit too small to be the long-term answer at guard or tackle (as a starter) anyway. The GM retained Lane and Rotheram for a reason. It's possible that his reason may be that he replaces one or both of the current guards in 2017 with one of those guys. And there is simply no way Barclay should be a piece of the puzzle at any position. His struggles last season did not help him increase his value to any NFL team. Walker has that classic "Looks like Tarzan, plays like Jane" persona. The team needs backups for sure and maybe even a couple of starter-quality players in the trenches this season, pending injury. Since our GM does not seem to put a premium on drafting guards early he may feel differently about grabbing a tackle on day-one, just as he had with Bulaga and Sherrod. He does not seem to put a premium on WR's or TE's, either. Second-round or later seems to be his preference for taking one of them.</p><p></p><p>Every GM has to pick his poison, so to speak. TT can't assemble All-Pros across the board and he has historically favored certain positions over others. TT likes DB's, too, but that matter was resolved adequately last year (two guys lost, two guys picked early). That said, to me the front-runners for being the earliest picks would seem to weigh heavily in favor of interior linemen. It would not be surprising to me to see TT load-up on big guys on either side of the ball but especially on D. Picking an early-round plodder or a speedy flyweight at ILB seems highly unlikely to me, nor a guy who's injury may be career threatening.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sky King, post: 658519, member: 7171"] It is enjoyable to read the posts of those who follow the draft and college talent so closely. Thanks for the insight. But with my limited knowledge of individual college players in the draft my personal approach to prognostication can only be derived from the perceived immediate needs and the GM's demonstrated bias. Again, thanks to all for the insightful posts on the needs of the team. Raji is gone and Pennell will be suspended early-on, plus his long-term future may be shaky. They need help on the D interior line immediately. With TT's M.O. there seems to be only one sure way those vacancies will get filled. Boyd is a question mark after the injury and Ringo is a practice squad player who would have to make an epic jump to have a consistent impact. Our GM has been known to draft DL's and OLBs in the first round -- Matthews, Perry, Jones, Raji, Harrell. ILBs not so much. I'm not sure that Hawk really qualifies as an ILB since they were a 4-3 defense when he was drafted. On offense Sitton and Lang are creeping-up on twilight time. Tretter is too good at center to want to be a career backup at the position and he may be just a bit too small to be the long-term answer at guard or tackle (as a starter) anyway. The GM retained Lane and Rotheram for a reason. It's possible that his reason may be that he replaces one or both of the current guards in 2017 with one of those guys. And there is simply no way Barclay should be a piece of the puzzle at any position. His struggles last season did not help him increase his value to any NFL team. Walker has that classic "Looks like Tarzan, plays like Jane" persona. The team needs backups for sure and maybe even a couple of starter-quality players in the trenches this season, pending injury. Since our GM does not seem to put a premium on drafting guards early he may feel differently about grabbing a tackle on day-one, just as he had with Bulaga and Sherrod. He does not seem to put a premium on WR's or TE's, either. Second-round or later seems to be his preference for taking one of them. Every GM has to pick his poison, so to speak. TT can't assemble All-Pros across the board and he has historically favored certain positions over others. TT likes DB's, too, but that matter was resolved adequately last year (two guys lost, two guys picked early). That said, to me the front-runners for being the earliest picks would seem to weigh heavily in favor of interior linemen. It would not be surprising to me to see TT load-up on big guys on either side of the ball but especially on D. Picking an early-round plodder or a speedy flyweight at ILB seems highly unlikely to me, nor a guy who's injury may be career threatening. [/QUOTE]
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