Was also a lot of haha Clinton dix for us too.
and I think this makes as much sense as mosley did, I think it’s a bigger need now than it was perceived as back then, with us just having drafted Arthur brown and signing Daryl Smith long term. And Ozzie had the bama thing but so far EDC is making the Ozzie-bama connection blush with his love for OK players(yes I understand 2018 was Ozzie’s, but you can’t tell me EDC didn’t have massive pull on that class). And while I’m not the biggest supporter of Murray to Baltimore, there aren’t too many I could think of that would be undoubtedly higher on Eric’s board and also a higher priority position
haha i forgot about clinton-dix - so glad we didnt end up grabbing him like i hoped we would, he's been fine as a pro but in that draft it would have been insane to miss out on the talent we would have if we'd taken him instead
i just think its a bit early with the school connections thing - we've only drafted Oklahoma offensive guys in this new era and we havent exactly stopped drafting bama guys (we drafted 2 in 2018 and werent really in range to grab one in 2019 except maybe mack wilson or deionte thompson)
with regards to need it definitely makes sense but we draft BPA (albeit the last 2 years we've manipulated our way around the draft board to put ourselves in position to get to a spot where the BPA is a need)
murray does make the most sense this early in the process but in 2014 around this time it seemed to feel like it was going to be zach martin although i will say this is the first draft since 2014 where i can see that there's probably going to be a clear consensus through the whole process from the media - 2015 was a mess, 2016 we got mocked basically anyone except ronnie stanley, 2017 you could take your pick of any of about 5 different bama guys and corey davis and haason reddick, 2018 likewise was all over the place and we ended up trading out of that spot anyway, 2019 it felt like we were getting mocked every different potential OL - only charles davis i think mocked us hollywood
so you're right that this does feel a little bit like 2014 - not sure if it makes sense yet though