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Originally Posted by ForeverIowan
Let me ask you this and play devils advocate. If Taylor is indeed our left tackle of the future and we draft a true right tackle in the draft (for shits and giggles lets say Darnell Wright or Dawand Jones) what happens if Taylor goes down with an injury? Not great...likely Niang or Thuney at LT?
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Honestly I don't know. But roster-wise, we have two guys already that have shown at least some ability to play RT in Niang and Prince. Not so much at LT. Like very little ability. maybe one of those guys comes into preseason and shows some better ability. But you want Taylor at RT, so we now have three RTs.
But there's no one on the roster to play LT if we assign Taylor to RT1. Which would require that Veach has to draft a functional LT, that has zero NFL experience. That will not be the best-in-class because we can't trade up that far. And then we have to go to Wal-Mart and buy a 'cheap swing OT' off the shelf. At the very least.
Again, I'm not Veach, but this doesn't sound like the best possible plan.
Put another way, of the OTs we now have on the roster, which is the best overall?
I'm pretty sure it's Taylor. And I'm no football wizard, but I'm pretty sure that 100% of the time you put your best OT at LT.