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Originally Posted by htismaqe
Here's my issue.
Everybody keeps saying let's trade picks and lock down the LT position for years.
At least with someone like Orlando Brown, that's probably true. Tunsil is 26 so he's a possibility as well. Plus both of those guys would start right away, day 1.
My fear with trading up in the first round is Eric Fisher.
They took Fisher #1 overall to "lock up the LT position for 12 years". He played EIGHT and now he's done. Not only that but he wasn't ready to play LT year 1 so they tried him on the right side and he was terrible. About the time Eric Fisher was ready to play at an elite level, he ended up no longer on the team.
I'm just not down with it.
If they really want to trade picks, go get Orlando Brown.
Otherwise, stay put in the draft, get a guy like Villanueva and try to spread the risk around.
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The issue even with that though is that, at some point, you're probably gonna have to either trade up for someone to play LT or sign a big contract for someone.
It's all up to the scouting and such. This isn't like the QB spot where if they miss they're dead, they've shown to be good enough with the mid and other round picks to survive.