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Old 02-11-2009, 10:37 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by Cyrus View Post
96-99% of the time you wait until later rounds to draft interior o-linemen, but if you are a personnel guy that believes so-and-so is the next Larry Allen, you're not letting him go past your pick. There are exceptions.
I don't think there have been exceptions, at least not to this point in time. Steve Hutchinson was looked at as maybe the most can't-miss pure guard prospect ever. He didn't go until 17 and a lot of folks at the time argued that was too high for a guard to go (I wasn't one of them).

Any recent guard I can think of that's been drafted that high or higher (and this includes Brandon Albert) has been drafted with the intention of moving him to left tackle.

You've got to go all the way back to Chris Naole in 1997 to find an actual guard drafted higher than Hutchinson. And you've got to go all the way back to the 80s (pre salary-cap era) to find one drafted in the top-10. They just don't spend high picks on the position.
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