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Originally Posted by saphojunkie
Right, I get you.
My point is this... I would rather have the fourth best WR in the draft than the single best guard.
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It's my contention that the sixth or seventh best WR in this draft is just as good with as much or more potential than the fourth best WR in this draft.
In fact, I think a guy like Donte Moncrief has the tools to be the best receiver in this draft when it's all said and done.
And I like guys like Devin Street, Jordan Matthews and Mike Davis as much as I do a guy like Marquis Lee (and personally, I don't like Lee that much as a potential #1 WR).
And, as I said, I don't think that there is that much of a drop off between Beckham (who I think is the second best receiver in this draft) or Cooks versus Josh Huff, Bruce Ellington and Robert Herron. (I mean, shit, I don't ever mention Ellington, but here's a guy who has basically the same combine measurables as Odell Beckham. This draft is crazy deep at the WR position.)
There is an absolute shit ton of 4.4something, 36"+ vertical receivers in this draft with very good to excellent college production. There's a shit ton of boom/bust guys (Evans, Benjamin, Coleman, Janis). It's a ridiculously deep WR draft.
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I would also rather have the second best tight end in the draft than the best guard. I personally think that our TE situation is terrible as is our WR corps.
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I don't think there is a problem with our tight end position. Fasano is a very solid starting NFL TE. Kelce has a ton of potential. McGrath only had one year of college football experience at a school that had less people than a large high school, but they guy was getting open and turning upfield against NFL safeties and linebackers in what was essentially his rookie year. The guy has a lot of growth/development/celing left in him as a player. If Kelce is recovered from his injury, then this is a position of strength/depth.
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I think there are multiple guys in this draft who can be at least as good as Bowe right out of the gate. If one of them can push to be our #1 threat and make Bowe his more natural #2... then I'll take them over any guard other than a rookie Will Shields.
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I think that there are a number of guys who are as good as Bowe in this draft as well. I just happen to think that those guys are still going to be available with our third round pick, especially if Beckham is off the board. (Though I wouldn't cry about them using their first rounder on Donte Moncrief, who, at this stage is a faster, more explosive version of Dwayne Bowe who runs substantially better routes.)
Ideally, if I were picking, I would love to see:
#23. Odell Beckham
#87. Cyril Richardson (who was, up until the Senior Bowl, a virtual first round lock and I still think he's one of the best OG prospects in this draft)
but I'm not going to bitch about them taking a guy like S'ua-Filo if Beckham is off the board. (Though, I'd still go with a guy like Donte Moncrief, Kyle Van Noy or Jeremiah Attaochu, especially if you could trade back.)