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11 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Brown, Wills, Wirfs, Okudah, Simmons

I want one of those guys and honestly, that's probably my order. But I don't even think we're going to look at OTs at #7 and I think that's a mistake. Okung is 31, coming off of a injury plagued season, and is in the last year of his contract. Moton is also in the last year of his contract. A lot of talk hinting at Little moving inside to OG.

WTF with those RTs?  Crazy

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54 minutes ago, Real1zOnly said:

No way Detroit passes him up. He's the perfect defensive player in todays NFL and he can play multiple positions 6'4 235 4.3 speed sheesh! Line him up all over the field and let him create havoc!

I hope you are right because most mocks and simulations I've seen have Detroit taking Okunda or Brown at #3.  Taking Simmons at #7 messes up my mocks/simulations by reaching for CB and DT next.   Then you start to miss out on the best safeties, WR, last tier of decent OL.  We have adequate LBs, we don't have that in our interior DL and corners.

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DCs either going to love what they can do with him or say he doesn’t have a real position.  Is he a hybrid or tweener?  Snow had a similar player at Temple, Haason Reddick who shot up the draft boards after the combine(which was comparable to Simmons) and almost made it into the top ten.  He’s been a total bust.

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2 minutes ago, sml1950 said:

DCs either going to love what they can do with him or say he doesn’t have a real position.  Is he a hybrid or tweener?  Snow had a similar player at Temple, Haason Reddick who shot up the draft boards after the combine(which was comparable to Simmons) and almost made it into the top ten.  He’s been a total bust.

He's a taller, faster Thomas Davis.  TD was a tweener too.  We tried doing few different things with him before he finally settled in.  Simmons is a tremendous athlete, but I think when you have a better athlete than football player, coaches try to get too gimmicky with them.  I'd rather have Brown or Okunda that have a positional home and do very well in that designed role.

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