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SepticeyePoe

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Simba

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Just to put it all together after the draft, an estimated 53 as of right now (not including UDFAs). Sole purpose is to show depth and where we could still add

QB (3): Jackson, Griffin, McSorley
RB (5): Ingram, Dobbins, Edwards, Hill, Ricard (FB)
WR (6): Brown, Boykin, Snead, Duvernay, Proche, Moore
TE (3): Andrews, Boyle, Scarff
OL (8): Stanley, Bozeman, Skura, Powers, Brown, Mekari, Phillips, Bredeson
DL (6): Campbell, Williams, Wolfe, Madubuike, Mack, Washington
OLB (4): Judon, Ferguson, Bowser, Ward
ILB (4): Queen, Harrison, Fort, Board
CB (6): Humphrey, Peters, Smith, Young, Marshall, Averett
S (5): Thomas, Clark, Elliott, Levine, Stone
ST (3): Tucker, Koch, Cox

Obvious spots that a vet would be nice is at TE and OLB. Would not complain at all if you could find a swing T somewhere as well.
 

purplepittabread88

Staff Member
Administrator
If Trey Burton could be gotten for cheap I wonder if that's an option. He gets to come to a TE friendly offense. He can do a bit of both he is similar to Hurst. Right now, if Andrews gets hurt, we are done for.
 

cobrajet

Hall of Famer
My only worry right now is our oline. Thinking about losing Yanda and having Powers, Phillips, Breeland competing for that spot has me worried because it seems to me that that will be a huge drop off. I worry about Skura also, he struggled for a long while and got pushed back so easy, then finally just started playing a lot better when that significant injury happened.i just don’t see how our line is improved right now. Hopefully Powers makes the jump this season.
 
My only worry right now is our oline. Thinking about losing Yanda and having Powers, Phillips, Breeland competing for that spot has me worried because it seems to me that that will be a huge drop off. I worry about Skura also, he struggled for a long while and got pushed back so easy, then finally just started playing a lot better when that significant injury happened.i just don’t see how our line is improved right now. Hopefully Powers makes the jump this season.

I serve the same doubts about the Edge.. We had serious issues last year at the position and we even avoided the injury bug.
If something happened to our ONLY pass rusher (Judon) we would lose much of the leverage given by our DBs' talent.
 

drjohnnyfever

Pro Bowler
The timing of the RB pick was the only thing I really questioned, but I love the pairing of the LB picks, love the RB as a player, and above all else, they have stopped drafting WRs on speed and upside and over the past two drafts have acquired guys with great HANDS ratings. They've done this with the TE's they've picked too.

It used to infuriate me when the pick from us was up for a WR and the first things said were, "...this guy has a ton of upside; the speed and athletic ability are going to be something other teams are going to have trouble with, but HANDS are a concern with this guy." How can any of the speed or anything else matter if the guy hired to catch can't consistently do that?! Used to drive me nuts. You don't draft a pass catcher to try to work on that weakness after being drafted.
 
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Tank

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I serve the same doubts about the Edge.. We had serious issues last year at the position and we even avoided the injury bug.
If something happened to our ONLY pass rusher (Judon) we would lose much of the leverage given by our DBs' talent.
Completely unrelated and random.........
Was going through some old pictures, saw this and thought of you. lol

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Our draft was horrible. You guys did a great job. Man I don’t know what we’re thinking not taking any weapons on offense for Rodgers.
 

RavensMania

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The timing of the RB pick was the only thing I really questioned, but I love the pairing of the LB picks, love the RB as a player, and above all else, they have stopped drafting WRs on speed and upside and over the past two drafts have acquired guys with great HANDS ratings. They've done this with the TE's they've picked too.

It used to infuriate me when the pick from us was up for a WR and the first things said were, "...this guy has a ton of upside; the speed and athletic ability are going to be something other teams are going to have trouble with, but HANDS are a concern with this guy." How can any of the speed or anything else matter if the guy hired to catch can't consistently do that?! Used to drive me nuts. You don't draft a pass catcher to try to work on that weakness after being drafted.
seems we learned our lesson from the Perriman and Lasley picks.

The last two drafts we have taken Hollywood, Boykin, Duvernay and Proche. All of them have really good hands.
 
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