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Originally Posted by Mecca
There's a better chance Benn will go in the 1st round than the one of him falling to the 3rd. And the offseason process is going to make Pierre Paul a high riser, I fully expect him to be a top 15 pick at worst.
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I realize regarding Benn that you are probably right and it probably depends on his 40 time. How high would you rank him among the WR's? As I said before, Doucet & Boldin both fell a lot further than most would have expected.
My thought is that you have a lot of teams that are running a 3-4 without the personnel and this is a defense heavy in the first and second, which would support Paul going early and heavy on highly rated O-lineman.
On WR's you've got Bryant, Tate, LaFell, Thomas & Williams also getting first round pub, thats six and it won't all happen. I've been surprised by Tate getting mid to late first round publicity. Last year there were 6 taken in the 1st followed by 2 in the 2nd. The 1st round teams that took them were Raiders, 49rs, Eagles, Vikings, Giants & Titans. 2nd round were both picked by the Browns.
I don't know how often teams, actually draft the same position two years in a row, but it probably doesn't happen very often outside of KC.
I don't think any receiver including Bryant is worthy of a top 10 pick, so
then you have, IMO, the teams most likely looking for a WR in the Dolphins, Titans, Bengals & Jets. Outside of them, I don't see any team taking one in the first.
In the 2nd round, out of the teams that would have been picking too high to take one in the 1st, I think you have us, Cleveland, Buffalo, Jax & Carolina.
In 2008 there were none in the first and 10 in the 2nd.