If the draft was held today

[panther4life]

and we kept the # 1 pick who would you like us to draft?

[janderson20vt]

Marcell Dareus.

[nosuchthingasapanther]

marcell dareus

[MattB]

Cam.

[teeray]

I think you know mine :)

[Millions]

I think you know mine :)

...

[YourMomsLover]

James Bonds' favorite pistol

[Ohio]

I picked the best defensive tackle in the draft, Nick Fairly

[Mother Grabber]

I've been for a DT since day one, and am still on that train. Darius is the man. We'll have a monster of a front 7. I wouldn't be terribly upset with PP boy, even though we're not supposed to pick a DB at #1.

[cdandi1]

Pp7

[blackcatgrowl]

;)

[panther4life]

I'd have to go cam at this point. High risk/high reward. But i buy into what Rivera has said so many times about finding coaches who are teachers and that we need to find a franchise qb. So much is made of him not knowing how to play in a pro system and what not but last years draft kind of debunked the importance of that. Bradford and Clausen!

Cam obviously has all the physical tools to get it done. He's apparently a good leader on the field and seems to really enjoy the sport. Does he have some learning to do? Hell yeah he does. But i believe he can be taught the basic fundamentals and would probably beat out Clausen in camp his first year. I'm sure we'd win a few more games this year and be more exciting and fun to watch with Cam at the helm. People with the leadership skills and physical tool set like Newton dont come around very often, so in a year where theres no clear cut slam dunk of a number 1 pick, take a risk.

If you wanna go safe then you have to take Peterson or Green. I think both of these guys will be good to great players at the next level. They have the combination of physical tools and proven performance on the field. I just wonder how much one of these guys can really improve our team even if they meet their full potential, if our qb play is still holding the team back.

Other considerations would certainly be on of the dt's. I dont have an extreme preference on either of them. I think Dareus would be safer but either one of them could bust just as easily as Cam can.....Look at past draft results, it happens alot.

Then of course you have Bowers and Quinn. Bowers looks to be pretty good but so did Gaines Adams and countless others who failed to reach their pre-draft hype at this position.

Bottom line is this, Green or Peterson are hands down the safest bets right now. I argue against Peterson cuz our corners were far from the reason our season went so bad last year. I think Green is an amazing talent and will go far in this league if he's hooked up with a good qb, otherwise he's a calvin Johnson pre-stafford.

Ndamonkung Suh and Calvin Johnson's team last year would have been alot better had their QB, Stafford been healthy all of last year. I mention them because they are 2 of the best prospects to come out in the past few years at their positions. So even if Green and Dareus or Fairely are as good as either one of them, it still doesent have the potential to make us light years better without a qb in place.

I'm sure we could grab a Blaine Gabbert-type qb in the top 15 next year,whereas a talent with potential like Cam may never be available to us for several more years.

So If Cam is a bust, oh well, half of the other players mentioned above will probably prove to be not worthy to even be considered inside the top 10 in the future. Everyone of them are a risk and the safest ones Peterson/Green aren't clear cut favorites to be number 1 for a reason too.

\\

[C47]

Yes I know the jersey is a little purple still....

[teeray]

Yes I know the jersey is a little purple still....

I am a Cam guy but that is a sweet ass pic :) :)