Who?!?!

[MadHatter]

I'm just hoping that Hurney doesn't do something stupid like trading away multiple 1sts and 2nds in order to move up and try for a quick fix on a position like DT. I just want them to be patient, ACQUIRE PICKS instead of trading pick after pick, and draft some good players on the defense. Its not like we have to make a huge splash in rounds 4-7. We've got two impact linebackers coming back and a guy we hope can anchor the DL at DT in Ron Edwards. Get an impact, starter quality player with our first pick (hopefully Claiborne but probably Cox or Coples) then pick up a corner in the 2nd round....not a freaking safety that you want to convert to corner...get a dadgum cornerback. Stephon Gilmore would be a hell of a pick in round two.

If we get any combination of Cox, Coples, Claiborne in the first and Gilmore, Worthy, David, Dennard in the second it'll be a promising first two rounds. I don't want any part of Jenkins and IDT we'll go there...leave him for the Bengals.

Why do people keep putting Gilmore in the list of 2nd round picks....he will be long gone before the 20th pick.

[unicar15]

Why do people keep putting Gilmore in the list of 2nd round picks....he will be long gone before the 20th pick.

After watching lots of draft coverage over the past few years, I'm done trying to say "this guy's a definite 1st round pick" or "there is no way we get this guy at pick __." I mean who woulda guessed Tyson Alualu would be a top 10 pick a few years ago? Who had Christian Ponder going 12th? At this time last year, Nick Fairley was considered by many to be a top 5 pick. He slid to 13th. You just never know which GM likes certain players. We all look at numbers and what Todd McShay and Mel Kiper say...but the fact of the matter is that Stephon Gilmore might only fit schemes for 25% of NFL defensive coordinators. It's easy to say...well Detroit needs a cornerback and CB 1 and 2 are off the board and Gilmore is CB 3 so let's mock him to Detroit. But in reality, he might not do half of what Detroit wants him to do in their system...so he falls. Happens every year.

As of now based on simply skill alone Gilmore is considered a mid twenties pick. But that is assuming that he is a fit for a primarily man system, a primarily zone system, that he can play the nickel etc...He might not be able to do some of those things so yeah I think it's conceivable that he falls to the bottom of the first round or out of the first.

[Catalyst]

I don't know how anyone can really study the draft and not have known who Terrell McClain or Brandon Hogan were last year. I admit Sherrod Martin, Corvey Irvin, and Kealoha Pilares were guys I didn't know much about beyond their names - if that - but McClain was a pretty well talked about prospect last year.

[Lout]

I knew of McClain because we showed a lot of interest in him prior to the draft. I knew who Fua was, and hoped we would get him. Hogan was completely off my radar because he was poor character. I did not know or Pilares.. I didn't study up on WR's at all, because I didn't think we would take one.

[mr beauxjangles]

Definitely not an unknown but he doesn't seem to be a part of the common Panthers discussion....

Kevin Zeitler, G, Wisconsin @ is a pick I'd be very happy with @ #40