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Originally Posted by veist
The draft class is too flush with players at more valuable positions unless someone absolutely falls in love with him or he puts up a crazy season he probably isn't going higher than the 10-15 range.
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But that's my exact point. Everyone has suddenly got a hard on for Mays and he plays a position that is actually less relevant than the ILB spot, but it's okay to get all hot and bothered about him, but a guy who is every bit as athletic and fierce and even more productive to this point at the "quarterback" position of the defense is not viable? Bullshit.
Spikes put up a crazy season last year. And the year before. The dude murders people on the field, has safety level athleticism in a linebacker body and has football instincts.
I loved Curry coming out, but I understood the arguments about him and DJ being about the same player. (Although, Curry did things better than DJ in terms of taking on blockers, shedding blocks, etc. at the same point of their careers.) And then picking up Vrabel, whose put DJ on the practice squad, makes the strong side backer position even more irrelevant. However, Spikes is a pure ILB. A combination of Laurunaitis and Maualuga, but with more athleticism. And we need a Mike ILB. In the worst way.
And the same could be said about Gresham, whose got all the tools to be the best TE prospect ever. A bigger, faster, better blocking Tony Gonzalez.
In my opinion, there are a couple of "generational" type players in this draft, at positions that are normally regarded as positions that don't value out as a top 5 selection. Berry, Mays, Spikes, Gresham, Trent Williams (although I think you can get a guy very close to Williams in Utah's Zane Beadles in the second round) all look to be those type of guys. Then you add in the regular top 5 positional talent guys like Bradford, Okung, Suh, Gerald McCoy, and Dunlap, all of which would have been the first guy selected in this past draft, and you've got a hell of a draft day situation.