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We gotta prove it. Honestly, more to the point, Sam Darnold has to prove it. We have a lot of young defensive talent that overachieved last year and should be even better this year. We have a ton of talent on offense and get the best RB in football back. This ranking is all about the very well founded doubt about Darnold being the answer at QB.

Because the same people who think Panthers fans can't move on from Cam trip over themselves to post any inkling of potential negative news about Cam.

Absolutely. Horn can be Revis 2.0 but if we continue to flail around at QB we'll continually be talking draft in October.

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times - PFF is a great source stats, but they're terrible for player ratings. They're just too in love with their rating system to acknowledge when it produces an outlier that shows their system (like all) is flawed.

That's one of the key arguments against RBs in the top 10 IMO. Injuries and overall short shelf life very often play a factor.

Not necessarily a QB, but a great player at a higher value position. Great RBs and off the ball LBers are routinely taken past the 1st. Just look at Luke and CMC. Bobby Wagner was basically Luke's 1B at MLB and he was the 47th overall pick. In 2017, Dalvin Cook was taken in the 2nd and Alvin Kamara in the 3rd.

There are definitely very good arguments against it.

He won't be a good pick if we don't solve the QB problem while one of the QBs we passed on flourishes. If you don't have a QB you can't compete.

It's worth debate. RB and off the ball LB are relatively low value positions. There's a good argument for never drafting either in the top 10.

Horn might end up being a great CB, but ultimately whether or not he was a good pick is going to hinge on what happens at the QB position. If Darnold flops while Fields and/or Jones go on to become legit franchise QBs... oh wee mayne.

If you're not a starter, you better be versatile. Either be able to fill in at multiple positions and/or be able to contribute on special teams. That's the way it should be. We've carried way too many limited backups in the past IMO. If you're a limited backup, you better be a darn good one and the guy in front of you better be injury prone.

I think Roy makes it. Not so sure about Pride.

Marty Hurney. Nails the 1st round followed by a whole bunch of WTF.

Christensen has everything you want in a LT minus arm length. I'm excited to watch him compete.

Joe Brady would have to be absolutely in love with Marshall and threatening to up and quit for us to turn down a 1st rounder for him. Straight up.

I very rarely have very lucid, very detailed dreams about future events and they almost always actually come true. The last one I had was about us drafting Brayvion Roy in the 6th round the night before it happened. Rhule called him and said, "Told ya I was gonna get ya big guy!"

IMO, in terms of pure arm talent, this class goes: Wilson Fields Lawrence Jones Trask Don't get me wrong, Lawrence has a good arm and it's not a red flag in the least, but Wilson and Fields both have very good arms.

Basically I just want to see potential. Inconsistency and rookie mistakes are virtually guaranteed.

OU is looking good recently with Mayfield and Murray. Hurts is gonna get his shot this year too. But before Mayfield...

Ealy was a straight up bust, but damn man... that Super Bowl performance... People forget it because we lost but he was every bit as dominant that game as Von Miller was.

Yeah, never a superstar but way more than a JAG. Legit long-term high level starter.

A guy who left to sign a deal that made him the highest paid interior OL of all-time ain't a JAG.

Moore should pass him eventually as long as he stays healthy and we re-sign him. But I don't know if Moore will ever have a single season that matches Moose's best. A lot of people kinda act like Moose and Jake were just products of Smitty but that requires them to overlook that both of them actually had their career best years the year Smitty broke his arm in the first game of the year. Moose had 1400+ yards and 16 TDs that year while Jake threw for just shy of 4000 yards and 29 TDs.

Wallace IMO is a perfect example of an awesome JAG. He started very few games but he could fill in all across the DL and no one held their breath when he entered the game. The guy was gonna do his job and everyone knew it.

Honestly, that's an insult to JAGs. There's a difference between guys who shouldn't be on the roster and legit JAGs.