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DE Marcus Davenport or WR Calvin Ridley at 24


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Curious to see if the Panthers are on the clock at 24 and have both Davenport and Ridley still available, who would you take?

  • Hernandez, Wynn, Alexander, Ward, James, Jackson, Guice as well as the early picks are all off the board.
  • Still available: Reid, Price, & Oliver

 

I just finished an online twitter mock and had this dilemma. I only want 3 WRs in this draft: Ridley, Moore and ESB. Ridley in R1, Moore in R2, not R1 unless everyone is off the board & ESB in R3. 

I love Davenport and think we need a DE but went with Ridley. 

My results through 3 rounds to go with no trades or player movement:

R1: Calvin Ridley WR  Alabama

R2: DeShon Elliott SAF  Texas

R3: Chad Thomas DE  Miami

R3: Austin Corbett OG/C  Nevada

 

Running backs flew off the board and all TEs were gone early R3. Fumagalli went early R4, but wasn't worth the 88th overall pick....plus I prefer Shultz or Smythe over Fumagalli. 

I'm kind of regretting not going Davenport at 24 because I could have gotten ESB with one of my R3 picks and think we'd be better set for the future. However, giving Cam arguably the best WR in this draft was too hard to pass up. Funch-Ridley-Smith-Samuel-Wright-Byrd is a pretty stacked WR unit. 

The point of this is that I'm seeing how easy it is to poke and second-guess GMs on the draft. Hindsight is easy afterwards, but when you're in the moment, you make a move with a plan, only you have such little control over the direction it goes after that selection. So here I am waiting for my 5th round pick to come up and still need a RB, TE, CB and another SAF. I really thought I could get Penny/Johnson in R3 and a TE, but it didn't happen. 

I'm happy with the haul so far for us. Thoughts?

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Davenport.

I like Ridley, good player.  But we just signed Smith (I still think he is not The guy for #1 target)  but we need help at DE as well.

We have Hall who hasnt played a reguoar season game yet.  A aging Pep who probably has 1 year left and limited snaps, a solid Addison, and a Average Horton.

 

Davenport is a Freak.  Im not a fan of small school kids that often because generally a bigger learning curve.  But Davenport is a sponge.  Just read up on the senior bowl.  Day one he was the raw athlete and really struggled.  After that he was getting attention from coaches and soaked it up.  At weeks end and the game, he was damn near unsptoppable

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On 3/30/2018 at 9:17 PM, WOW!! said:

Neither get me a talented young safety..

I did in R2 chief. I know Reid is the guy everyone wants at 24, but DeShon Elliott is no joke and would be a nasty player in our secondary. The value didn't make Reid or even Harrison (if people like him) over guys like Ridley and Davenport. 

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