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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58
So we can only upgrade our line by using early picks?
What if we drafted Eric Young in the 4th, John Sullivan in the 5th, and Chad Rinehart with our other 5th?
We've just rebuilt the entire right side of our line.
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I agree but LT is where you protect the blindside of the QB. Obviously if we built up the right side we could shift some of our protections to make up for shortcomings on other parts of the line. You just don't see a lot of teams with an LT that wasn't drafted in the first few rounds. I just think if we don't give Croyle any time to make a play, we just wasted a pick by taking him.
In my opinion, you look at your player rankings and if you have a DE for example that is rated just slightly higher than an LT but you have a much bigger need at LT, you should go for the LT. I'm not talking about moving 10 positions, but in most cases you should have 3-4 people who are all ranked very closely to each other at each pick(1st round might be the exception) and if you take the player at the position of need rather than the player who was barely ranked higher, I don't think it's a reach.(again, 1st round might be the exception because of high we pick)