Never forget we traded up to passed on A.J Brown and D.K Metcalf in the second.

[Peon Awesome]

With regards to Little over McCoy, that didn't make sense at the time when our most expensive free agent signing was a center and we had no real solution at LT. It's very revisionist thinking to say McCoy was an obvious pick. Why use your 2nd round pick to select another center? Makes zero sense in context. Obviously if we had to go back, we should have not signed Paradis and drafted McCoy or Jenkins. 

As for drafting a guard, if you have the choice between a guard and left tackle, you pick the LT. You can get good value at guard in free agency and late in the draft. Also, it's much easier for college tackles to transition to guard than vice versa. 

Little might not be the answer but as has been said multiple times here, the sample size is way too small to give up on him, particularly since he was injured most of the year. You cannot expect a rookie to be an impact day 1 starter at one of the hardest positions to transition to from college. He deserves at least 1 more year. Moton did nothing his rookie year. Even top 5 picks at LT routinely struggle out of the gate.

[SmokinwithWilly]

21 hours ago, MHS831 said:

https://www.panthers.com/news/greg-little-and-dennis-daley-reflect-on-challenging-rookie-years

Here is the deal, If Little cannot play LT, there are no real deficiencies in his game that suggest he would not be a great guard.  You all have to let it play out--you do not replace him after a 2 concussion season in which he only played about 5 games.  Nobody here is qualified to determine he is a bust---you can guess, you can say you have seen all you need to see---but understand what that actually means in terms of talent evaluation----Nothing. Little is raw at T, closer to being ready at G---with some good coaching, he has a chance.  He is a boom or bust LT, but he could prosper at G after he learns the position.  It could help with the concussion issues too.

I strongly suggest that we address other needs (DT, WR, CB, C, etc.) and let the Tackle position mature. A talent like Brown, Jeudy, or Okudah is likely to be there---redrafting a T because our 2019 drafted T did not get a chance is silly.  We had 2 rookies there--they will be better next year, but if you draft another OT, you neglect a need where we have no developing depth. 

If we take a T, it is because we want Little to move inside to G.  If we upgrade 2 positions with one pick, Yes, do it.   However, I would address C now.  

I see taking a T now an overreaction.  If Little has to be moved inside, you have Daley at LT (who will be better in 2020). Maybe not Gross-level, but what do we have at DT?

What if we took Tua at #7.  Now Moton is your blind side.

The Huddle is on a feeding frenzy about T right now---maybe rightly so, but if Little has the stuff to play LT and simply needs an offseason, camp, and work with OL and strength coaches, we are hurting ourselves by drafting a T. 

We MIGHT need an OT in 2020; we have 2 rookies working to get better.  We KNOW we need DT, CB, WR, C, etc.  '

Just my opinion.

 

Here's my thought on that. If Little can't play LT and has to be moved inside to guard, I consider that a bust pick. We traded up to get Little in a draft that was full of interior linemen that we desperately needed. We could have saved that 3rd, stayed where we were, grabbed McCoy ( I had ?s about Paradis, big guys and leg injuries) because we  needed a center, taken CGJ at 77 and still gotten Grier at 100 (still don't like that pick). 

Our interior line sucked this year. Moton might have been able to hold down LT if he actually had a center and guard worth a damn. Maybe not. I think we could have schemed some around the tackle deficiencies, but there was no way to predict Cam's injury, and that really really hurt. 

I know everyone says hindsight is 20/20 but it really does seem like a lot of times, the huddle gets it right more than the GM does.