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Big Board & Pick 39: Offensive Skill Player Rankings


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20 hours ago, Growl said:

honestly thinking real hard about a CB in the 2nd, value is better and is a huge position of need. I never wanna see cj henderson again. 
 

if one of the hard coded 1st round receivers is there (totally plausible) then I’d do that. 

With all this talk of the "sexy" pick of a WR at 39 or trading for Nuke finally someone realized the corners need help too. It's Horn pretty much by himself.  Donte Jackson might not be healthy by start of season or unfortunately ever be the same player.  CJ is a 4th at best and special teamer.  SO put away the dreams of fixing the offense in one off-season and let's all remember that we have a 3-4 transition to work through and our oline depth neeeds help too. Cade Mays seems like a gamer but after that what we got?  The Arbys package on the oline doesn't need to go away completely so we need more beef. 

I seen someone else bring this up. But I say we trade tow from 39 and gain another 3rd. From 45 to 65 is prime diamond in the rough territory.  

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29 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

I also think CB is a bigger need than we all seem to realize (because we are not talking about it). 

The wide receiver room is better than the cornerback room.  We have enough to field a team. I don't know if that's true at corner. 

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21 hours ago, RJK said:

I just took a look at the WR class last night and the majority of them are 5’10 or smaller and sub 180 lbs. lots of slot guys but no #1 outside a few guys that will be gone by 39 

I wonder if we'll be aggressive and trade back into the 1st round for a WR.

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