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Originally Posted by NJChiefsFan
The problem is that the rookie wage scale has changed the scenario that existed the year the Browns did that. The risk with a QB has dropped a ton. When you consider how important a QB is I don't think its a hard decision. Geno/Siler vs. Bray/Teo. I don't have to think twice about that. You are much more likely to find an impact ILB later in the draft, in FA, or hell, undrafted ie. the guy Teo would be replacing.
We have 3 very good LB's. We won't be killed if the 4th isn't amazing. We can't **** around getting a QB. I think its foolish to be alright taking the 3rd or 4th, maybe 5th QB in the draft so we can improve another position. ILB isn't even our second most important position. You could argue that besides CB its behind DE and S.
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I would disagree with you. Our needs are exactly this.
1. QB
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2. CB/ILB
3. Tackle
4-whatever Guard, DE, Safety, Tight End.
The point you are just not getting is the talent difference here, and how marginally they might be, or more importantly, where our FO decides to place them at.
Imagine this was Madden for a second, so I can dumb this down.
you have 5 QB's in the first two rounds, they are ranked as such.
1. Smith: 82 Overall
2. Barkley: 81 Overall
3. Wilson: 81 Overall
4. Bray: 80 Overall
5. Glennon: 77 Overall
2 of those guys will get taken in the first round, the other 3 will be available in the second round.
Now lets say ILB goes like this
1. Te'O: 87 Overall
2. Minter: 83 Overall
3. Ogletree: 81 Overall
4. Johnson: 80 Overall
5. Skov: 78 Overall
You're telling me that you wouldn't take, say, Te'O at an overall score of 87, and then draft Wilson at an 81 overall? Instead you'd take Smith at 82 and Ogletree at 81? Seems like you get better Value out of Te'o/Wilson than Smith/Ogletree.
Of course, that is under the assumption that no QB separates themselves and proves to be elite, because none of them have so far.