1st round Greg Robinson or Cyrus Kouandjio or Taylor Lewan

[Jackofalltrades]

Kalil was picked in the second round, after we picked Dwayne Jarrett earlier in the same round.

Reaching for need will kill you.

[Gallagher]

I'm not saying we reach for need, but maybe some sort of hybrid philosophy where we pick the best player available at a position of need.

 

I just hope that our front office isn't so committed to this BPA idea that we end up taking a good player that doesn't see the field for us, like a RB, QB, LB, DE, or DT.

[carolinarolls]

Cyrus round two and Robinson will have his new hat all broken in by the time we pick at 28.  

 

I would be supportive of the Lewan pick at 28, among others.

[Jackofalltrades]

I'm not saying we reach for need, but maybe some sort of hybrid philosophy where we pick the best player available at a position of need.

I just hope that our front office isn't so committed to this BPA idea that we end up taking a good player that doesn't see the field for us, like a RB, QB, LB, DE, or DT.

I would assume that's how the board is set up. However, DE and OLB wouldn't be a stretch for me, though I wouldn't like it at the time.

[carolinarolls]

BPA is the rule of the draft.  These guys are commodities.  A guy may not be the perfect piece for your team but you sometimes have to take him anyway because of the leverage he comes with.

 

The draft is very fluid and lots of possibilities are constantly presenting themselves.  The first round could keep a GM and staff busy for an entire week if it were possible to stretch it out.  The deals that could be hatched and pitched are virtually endless with each pick.  Most everyone here really has no idea just how mind boggling the NFL draft really is for each and every staff and just how easy it is to get taken or do the taking.

 

Most GM's abstain from trade talk altogether because it is just too fast paced and despite countless hours of prep work and scenario exercises the unthinkable always seems to happen.

 

The ability to "draft well" is a much bigger task than most people can fathom.  The commercialized TV production makes it about teams getting their guy and colleges strutting their stuff, but the war rooms are just that.  Constantly fending off low ball BS, deciphering middle of the road offers that could determine your jobs in split seconds, and hesitating to jump on the "sure-thing" offers based on the fear of to good to be true.  And that's if you are not even proactive in sending out your own feelers.

 

Its a nightmare and the safe bet is going BPA.  The guy with the most chips usually wins.  Its not assured but its a good damn start.