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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Oh sure, there's plenty of time for the story to be written here.
But man, if you're drafting for next season, aren't you better served taking someone like maybe YaYa Diaby in the 3rd? Is there any difference at all in the long-term ceilings for FAU and say Adetomiwa Adebawore who some liked in the 2nd and fell to the 4th? If 'hey, he's quality depth we'll be happy to have in 2024' is your goal with the pick, shouldn't you be waiting a couple rounds to attack that?
I mean bottom line is that if we'd have gone with Rice, Morris, FAU in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, everyone would be falling over themselves about the greatness of the draft. "Hey we got a long-term starter at WR and LT, not to mention a guy with first round talent that fell to the 3rd for some reason in FAU all the way down in the 3rd...." so it's hard to complain too much. I mean afterall, if we'd have gone LaPorta and Rice in 1 and 2 and then took Adebawore in the 3rd, we wouldn't have Wanya. Conner in the 4th looks like a ballplayer in his own right so maybe you could squint and say "We could've taken Morris in the 4th..." but then we lose Conner and at a point you can't just keep pushing all the guys we DID take down a round. It's not realistic to do so.
But It definitely would've been nice to see FAU force himself onto the scene. Not doing so has to be at least a little concerning.
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Remember that Veach wanted to trade up. Mazi Smith and a WR were reportedly his target which leads me to believe he was high on both. The problem was that Veach was calling and everyone was telling him to go **** his mother.
We just kinda fell into no man's land there after that and took a 2nd rd player at the top of the board with the last pick of the 1st rd. I think that is standard protocol. And after all we talked about how DE was deep in this draft. I liked Derrick Hall who Seattle took later on.
Either way the draft already looks like a success early. Rice has put up numbers as well as any WR the last month, Wanya is looking credible at LT and Conner had flashed quite a bit both in coverage and tackling.
I still think FAU can be a Mike Danna producing pass rusher but he's gotta get stronger. I think he's struggling with early downs.